Hi, "William Skaggs" <weskaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The interface between the jpeg plug-in and the metadata system, so > far as exif is concerned, would consist of two functions, > gimp_metadata_store_exif() -- which translates the exif into XMP and > adds it to the metadata parasite -- and > gimp_metadata_generate_exif(), which constructs an ExifData struct > using the information from the metadata. (Raphael's plan has them > implemented as plug-ins, but I think that's too awkward.) What is akward about it? > On loading an exif-jpeg file, it (1) calls > gimp_metadata_store_exif(), and (2) extracts the orientation from > the exif and, if it is not top-left, queries the user whether to > rotate the image. The JPEG plug-in would have to change the orientation tag if it's rotating the image on load, wouldn't it? It would have to do that before calling gimp_metadata_store_exif(). > gimp_metadata_store_exif() serializes the exif data and attaches it to > the image as an "exif-data" parasite. > > gimp_metadata_generate_exif() extracts the contents of the "exif-data" > parasite and deserializes them. Excuse my ignorance, but why do you need to serialize the data? What does serializing mean here anyway? Sven
