Re: DRAFT: eXIF 2017-05-28

Pavel Zlatovratskii <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Jun 2017 10:54:56 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Organization TB.Budget
Message-ID <[email protected]>

31.05.2017 23:35, Glenn Randers-Pehrson пишет:
>
> We could do that be defining an eXIf
> chunk that only contains the safe-to-copy fields, but that involves
> decoders having to understand the Exif profile enough to be able
> to separate the good from the bad.
>
That was and idea I was talking about from the very beginning: why do we 
ever need decoder that's not able to parse data? Even for PNG-to-JPEG... 
direct use of eXIf chunk is not thing I support. It looks like 
PNG-to-PNG recompression when no ancillary chunks are recognised, but 
instead all data between critical chunks copied as-is, like completely 
ignore all unsafe-to-copy properties.

To keep metadata correct we must parse them. Or on every processing, 
handling their safe/unsafe-to-copy state (eXIF way), or by discarding 
all data that could be broken on reading (eXIf way). Never parse EXIF 
and believe that it still applicable for image(or even correct)... I 
think it's simply too reckless.

-- 
Have a nice DOS.

Pavel Zlatovratskii [email protected]; [email protected]


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