Full editing capabilities of EXIF fields, possible soon?
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:43 pm
Hello,
I tried XnView and I must admit it's quite a nice tool compare to some non free (and even very expensive) products. So I wish to thank you for your job and your effort to cope with the community needs (as I could readit into this forum).
This lead to my current question: as I am very found of storing informations directly into JPEG/EXIF files such as EXI comments, caption ... I was wondering if in a near future this cold be implemented in XnView. An example of what I use and need is to store UNICODE text inside EXIF fields and retreive them to produce HTML album for te family to see our family pictures on the web.
A good tool to handle that is a german product named "cPicture" (on the contrary of ACDsee which pretends to store UNICODE information into its EXIF fields but does not properly handle it, as you can test if you wish to store Greek text in the comment field for example; while cPicture can handle it).
For the moment XnView seems (as far as I could tested it) only able to display fields and edit only comments while ADCsee of cPicture can edit nearly all the fields (editable) even those not already present in the EXIF record of a JPG file (this may vary according to the ACDsee version you use or with cPicture as they handle this differently).
Well, I know this is not may one of your priorities. Just in case you come to deal with some piece of code that manage EXIF and ITPC (for me ITPC is less interesting as, by standard definition, IPCT only handles ASCII due to its definition made by the US, but still it might interest some other folks arround...) you could decide to implement that kind of stuff.
Anyway, than you again for the job and keep going!
Gilles
I tried XnView and I must admit it's quite a nice tool compare to some non free (and even very expensive) products. So I wish to thank you for your job and your effort to cope with the community needs (as I could readit into this forum).
This lead to my current question: as I am very found of storing informations directly into JPEG/EXIF files such as EXI comments, caption ... I was wondering if in a near future this cold be implemented in XnView. An example of what I use and need is to store UNICODE text inside EXIF fields and retreive them to produce HTML album for te family to see our family pictures on the web.
A good tool to handle that is a german product named "cPicture" (on the contrary of ACDsee which pretends to store UNICODE information into its EXIF fields but does not properly handle it, as you can test if you wish to store Greek text in the comment field for example; while cPicture can handle it).
For the moment XnView seems (as far as I could tested it) only able to display fields and edit only comments while ADCsee of cPicture can edit nearly all the fields (editable) even those not already present in the EXIF record of a JPG file (this may vary according to the ACDsee version you use or with cPicture as they handle this differently).
Well, I know this is not may one of your priorities. Just in case you come to deal with some piece of code that manage EXIF and ITPC (for me ITPC is less interesting as, by standard definition, IPCT only handles ASCII due to its definition made by the US, but still it might interest some other folks arround...) you could decide to implement that kind of stuff.
Anyway, than you again for the job and keep going!
Gilles