Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior

[Liam R E Quin <liam w3 org>]

On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 18:44 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote:
> [Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:]
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:43 AM, scott s. wrote:
> > > [...] GIMP uses a 3rd party library to read tiff, and I
> > > guess GIMP spec doesn't specify if on import if GIMP is to retain
> > > meta-data, silently dispose of it, or alert the user that meta-data may
> > > be lost.
> >
> > As already explained in this thread, libtiff simply doesn't support
> > preserving metadata.

> So that would fall into the "silently dispose" category, then.

GIMP can't warn about losing metadata if it doesn't know whether such
metadata was present.

Having said that, libtiff3 includes the tiffinfo program which is able
to display XMP and EXIF metadata from the tiff files I tried. So in fact
I think it's the tiff-load and tiff-save file plugins that might be
waiting for someone to write a patch to support metadata.

Liam


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