Re: EXIF support in PNG

Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <CA+PdXctxOpu5v16ir-BBa7z1Urqm1hhMV6HxO3ofvKxORc9r3A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:16 PM, John Bowler <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:10 PM, John Bowler
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  write a raw EXIF profile wrapped in
>     ^^^^^
> >> an EXIF chunk length, "eXIf", data, and crc.
>
> Ooh, ooh, ooh!  I've been Trumped!
>
> I'm talking about *READING* the thing.  It's PNG; write once read
> many.  I want to see the code to decode it.
>
> Cosmin was, I believe, playing the same trump.


Right, we are talking about fast simple encoding
on board cameras and so on.  Decoders would
need to support decompressing (inflating) because
there's no guarantee that the chunk has used
the uncompressed-block encoding method.

Glenn

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