[Digikam-devel] NEF and TIFF/EP file format will be supported to next Exiv2 release...

[Andreas Huggel]

Thanks, Gilles - you were quicker than me :)

The new parser is read-only for now and doesn't know about Makernotes yet. It 
is still very fresh and hardly tested; if you try it, please report problems 
to me.

The parser is newly designed from scratch to be a flexible and extensible TIFF 
parser, based on the experience with the old code. Eventually it will be used 
for all TIFF-related formats, includig the Exif block in Jpegs. But the fact 
that NEF seems to work already now is more a side-effect; to be honest I 
still don't really know that format.

Among the remaining feature requests for future Exiv2 releases, there are a 
few more from the digikam team. I'm in the process of registering them all in 
the Mantis bug-tracking system for a start. It can be accessed from the 
internet and is open for anybody to add information (also via the download 
page mentioned below). 

Please contact me if you're interested to contribute to Exiv2.

Regards,
Andreas


On Thursday 06 April 2006 21:55, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> All day, I'm checking all progress into Exiv2 library. Good news, a new
> TIFF/EP parser is under development and work very well :
>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/NEF-DNG-metadata.png
>
> In this screenshot, you can see all metadata from a NEF and DNG files !
>
> Paco, i'm sure that you will very happy (:=)))...
>
> Marcel, no need to investigate about TIFF/EP in
> DMetadata::tiffmetaloader(). All will be done by Exiv2 now.
>
> If you want to test current Exiv2 implementation, get the source from svn
> repository using details from this page :
>
> http://www.exiv2.org/download.html
>
> I'm sure now that Exiv2 is the better choice for digiKam !
>
> Gilles