Re: DRAFT: eXIf 2017-03-02

Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Mar 2017 12:14:58 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <CA+PdXcsp3FTAU7q3ASFm3PuxReogDzHgbL1x4O19JtfDXZ35SQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:50 AM, John Bowler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I also don't see why I shouldn't just put the EXIF tags into IFD[0];
> the level of indirection is of no benefit in a single-image format.

It would be a redesign of the eXIf chunk, but we could do that.
Just eliminate the TIFF header and IFD structure, and only put
a consecutive stream of EXIF/GPS/thumbnail tags in eXIf.

That's more or less what I tried to do 10-12 years ago, but
the project died due to lack of interest.

That means conversion back to JPEG or TIFF would involve
rebuilding the IFD structure, but that's pretty simple.

Glenn

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