On 17 Mar 2003 21:26:22 +0100, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jason Van Patten <jvp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I'm sure this has been asked 5 bzillion times, so make this 5 bzillion > > and one. :-) Is there a plan to support reading/writing EXIF > > information found in files such as JPEGs and TIFFs? [...] > this issue is being tracked at > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56443 > > Actually I was hoping we'd have some support for EXIF metadata by now > since several people volunteered to work on this stuff. Unfortunately > nothing usable has surfaced so far which means that it is very > unlikely that GIMP-1.4 will have this feature. This is mostly my fault. Since last year, I planned to add EXIF support in the "right" way, but I haven't been able to start implementing this. As we have seen the problems caused in the GIMP by some features that are implemented as quick hacks and then become unmaintained, I think that it is important to add EXIF support correctly, in a framework that supports EXIF for JPEG and TIFF (and maybe PNG), but also allows XMP/IPTC metadata (later). Although there have been several proposals to add a quick hack to "support EXIF" by simply copying the whole EXIF block from one JPEG file to another one, this is wrong (according to the EXIF spec) and I don't think that it would be a good idea to include this in the GIMP because this solution would be a dead end. So until a correct implementation is done in the GIMP, I prefer to recommend the usage of external tools. I'm still hoping to be able to start implementing this "soon"... -Raphaël
