Re: DRAFT: eXIf 2017-03-02

John Bowler <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Mar 2017 19:54:27 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
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On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting.  Are you suggesting that an Exif profile containing only
> a TIFF header plus (for example) an Orientation tag, a WaterDepth tag,  and a
> GPSAltitude tag (without any IFD0, Exif IFD, or GPS IDF tags) would be valid?
> It would be nice if that were so.

No; read the spec.

Personally I have no intention of doing that; there are two perfectly
good libraries which I use both of which handle EXIF with minimal
spec-reading on my part.  I do need to read the tag definitions, I do
not need to understand the intricacies of how the data is stored on
disk.

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