Re: CALL for DISCUSSION: eXIf 20170115 -- length

Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <CA+PdXcsMvrtuDcHNu5gRkPOkfKEPXhaibbYHO7aD-4NYFb-oxg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 1:14 AM, John Bowler <john.cunningham.bowler@gmail.
com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Willem van Schaik <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > or maybe :
> >
> >    The eXIf chunks four-byte "length" field determines the size of
> >    the chunks data segment containing the EXIF profile.
>
> I don't think anything would be lost just by removing the original
> sentence.  It doesn't seem to say anything that isn't explicit in the
> PNG specification.  The previous sentence is perfectly clear.


Yes, the sentence is left over from the compressed-exif proposal, where the
data segment contained more than just the Exif profile.  I'll update the
proposal later today when I have access to my files.

Glenn

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