[Gimp-developer] Exif support for tiff files

2009-03-17 Thread Sebastian Kraft
Hello everybody,

I started to look into source code to see how much work it would be to 
implement exif support for Tiff files. Currently it's very annoying that 
gimp skips exif information from tiff files I created with a RAW 
converter...

The main question is now what happens to the file plugins when GIMP is 
ported to gegl... Will the file plugins be rewritten? So it would not 
make much sense for me to work on exif support now...

What are the plans?

Regards,
Sebastian
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Exif support for tiff files

2009-03-17 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi.

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 20:42 +0100, Sebastian Kraft wrote:

 I started to look into source code to see how much work it would be to 
 implement exif support for Tiff files. Currently it's very annoying that 
 gimp skips exif information from tiff files I created with a RAW 
 converter...
 
 The main question is now what happens to the file plugins when GIMP is 
 ported to gegl... Will the file plugins be rewritten? So it would not 
 make much sense for me to work on exif support now...

It's definitely not a waste to add EXIF support to the GIMP plug-in now.
When we finally port the file loading to GEGL, we will also port that
code then.


Sven


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Exif support for tiff files

2009-03-17 Thread Sebastian Kraft
On Dienstag, 17. März 2009 22:05:04 you wrote:
 Hi,

 On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:55 +0100, Sebastian Kraft wrote:
  I saw in file-jpeg/jpeg.c that EXIF data simply is read into
  ExifData struct via a libexif function. This only keeps EXIF from
  jpeg - jpeg because there is no global ExifData to store exif
  information during editing.
 
  So what would you propose how to transfer exif data from one
  filetype to another?  Where to add something like a global EXIF
  data struct?

 You missed some important bits then. The EXIF data is attached to
 the image as exif-data' parasite. This is used by other file
 plug-ins as well. There is also ongoing work to replace this by a
 more general gimp-metadata parasite, but this is not finished.


Oh Thats what I missed... Thanks so far. I will take a deper look and 
try to work on this

Sebastian
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