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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Also Digikam writes 'Digikam 5.9' into the metadata even when it
hasn't changed anything else at all.</pre>
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totally agree, there should be some kind of differentiation <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21.09.2018 13:12, Chris Green wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Remco Viëtor <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr"><remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On jeudi 20 septembre 2018 23:07:42 CEST Chris Green wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">woenx <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marcpalaus@hotmail.com"><marcpalaus@hotmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I don't know about the "signature", other software does the same thing.
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Other software doing the same thing doesn't necessarily make it a good
idea! :-)
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">But it does allow the software to see what kind of fields can be expected in
the metadata, and how to interpret them.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Possibly, but how many programs are there out there that 'understand'
how Digikam uses the metadata?
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">And if there's information about the processing, the program and version that
created that information is really needed to make sure any replay can be done
correctly. Different programs, and sometimes even different versions, can use
different algorithms or interpret parameters differently. No information about
creating program/version would make storing processing info useless: no
reliable way to reuse it, and it is not really human-readable (you see the
numbers, but you'll have no idea what they mean).
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Yes, but in reality my images have been processed by several different
programs. Say I do major image enhancement/changes using Gimp or
Photoshop, then some changes to metadata using Photini and then I use
Digikam to manage the inmages. Having 'Digikam 5.9' in the metadata
would be totally misleading!
Also Digikam writes 'Digikam 5.9' into the metadata even when it
hasn't changed anything else at all.
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