[Digikam-users] Fwd: GPS data for raw files in xmp sidecar

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> - XMP sidecar is now supported.
> - Photoshop PSD file (read only : Exif/IPTC/XMP extraction supported.)
> - JPEG200 file (read only : Exif/IPTC/XMP extraction supported... but
> who use it (:=))))
> - GIF (read only image info only)
> - TGA (read only image info only)
> - BMP (read only image info only)

Cool, that's enormous progress!

> >  About TIFF writting support : no idea yet. I CC Andreas to have more
> > info...
>
> (private email - i think i'm not on the dk-users list)
>
>  This morning I checked in a large update to exiv2/branches/unstable
>  (where the tiff write support is being developed) which merges
>  everything from the trunk to that branch.
>
>  In other words, the dust is off, work can re-start. It's what i'm doing
> now.

And that's even better

>
> Marcel, PSD support in digiKam is very important. we only support 8
> bits color depth, using QT image loader. We need a dedicated DImg
> image loader to support 16 bits color depth.
>

Is there a support library like for the other image formats? I think Gimp etc. 
support the format, so there should be code somewhere?

Marcel