Re: DRAFT: eXIf 2017-03-02
John Bowler <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Mar 2017 19:54:27 -0800
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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. -- John Bowler <[email protected]> +1 (541) 450-9885 PO BOX 3151 KERBY OR 97531-3151 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot