Hi Jay,

On Jun 7, 2017, at 3:42 AM, Jayathirth D V <jayathirth....@oracle.com> wrote:

> As per PNG Specification for text chunks 
> http://libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Chunks.html#C.Anc-text . There can be 
> multiple chunks with same keyword.

Yep: "Any number of text chunks can appear, and more than one with the same 
keyword is permissible."

> 1) In PNGMetadata. extractCreationTimeFromText() you are updating the 
> "creation_time_present" to false when it doesn't follow RFC1123. So if there 
> are multiple text chunks and if the latest chunk doesn't follow RFC1123 while 
> decoding it will result in "creation_time_present" to be false. In case where 
> we are not able to decode the provided text, we should not update 
> "creation_time_present" to false.

I have not looked at the code but what I am wondering about is how it handles 
this part of the specification from the same section:

"For the Creation Time keyword, the date format defined in section 5.2.14 of 
RFC 1123 is suggested, but not required [RFC-1123]. Decoders should allow for 
free-format text associated with this or any other keyword.”  

Specifically the date format is *recommended* as opposed to be *required* to 
conform to RFC 1123. What happens if for example there is only one tEXt chunk 
which has a Creation Time in ISO 8601 format [1], e.g., "2017-06-07 15:50”?

If multiple Creation Time keywords are present the algorithm to decide which 
one to use as the ImageCreationTime in standard image metadata is somewhat 
arbitrary. One could for example use the value of the first one, the value of 
the last one, the oldest one, etc.

What examples of actual PNG “real world" files have been used for testing? For 
example ones from PngSuite [2] or those produced by typical user applications 
such as Apple’s “Preview” or the Windows program “IrfanView” [3] or other 
common image viewers?

Thanks,

Brian

[1] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Combined_date_and_time_representations
[2] http://www.schaik.com/pngsuite/pngsuite.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IrfanView

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