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[Libexif-devel] libexif and exif 0.6.20 released

[Dan F. <da...@co...>]

This release adds more flexibility to the existing exif options and
fixes a crash when given bad command-line input. A few libexif bugs are
squashed and rational values are now shown with appropriate precision. New
translations are added for the bs, ro, & tr locales.

libexif-0.6.20 (2010-12-15):
  * New translations: bs, tr
  * Updated translations: be, cs, da, de, en_GB, en_CA, it, ja, nl, pl, pt_BR,
    pt, ru, sk, sq, sr, sv, vi, zh_CN
  * Fixed some problems in the write-exif.c example program
  * Stop listing -lm as a required library for dynamic linking in libexif.pc
  * Turned on the --enable-silent-rules configure option
  * Changed a lot of strings to make the case of the text more consistent
  * exif_entry_dump() now displays the correct tag name for GPS tags
  * Fixed some invalid format specifiers that caused problems on some platforms
  * Display rational numbers with the right number of significant figures

exif-0.6.20 (2010-12-15):
  * New translation: ro
  * Updated translations: it, lv, sk
  * --no-fixup now honoured during --create-exif to not create default tags
  * Fixed crash when not enough components were given to --set-value
  * Made --set-value more forgiving of whitespace
  * Allow --set-value on UNDEFINED tags (treating them as byte arrays)
  * Honour --machine-readable with --show-mnote and --show-description
  * Turned on the --enable-silent-rules configure option
  * Adding or removing a thumbnail can be done simultaneously with other options
  * Allow --create-exif to be used in place of an input file

Here are the SHA1 sums of the released files:

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b90e9eaa9db59018fee70c2b021bb5edca1eb64a  exif-0.6.20.tar.gz
d7cce9098169269695852db20d24350c2d3c10fe  libexif-0.6.20.tar.bz2
562d02737872e3c33eefcb75a5a9260a90466731  libexif-0.6.20.tar.gz
87376eb8b69ee5678af72570e02362d021c2488a  libexif-0.6.20.zip

>>> Dan

[Libexif-devel] Time for a libexif release

[Dan F. <da...@co...>]

It's been a year since the last libexif release, so it's a good time
to do another.  There haven't been a lot of big changes to the library, but
the exif front-end has had a number of improvements. I'll plan to make
a release on December 15 if no-one has any objections.

>>> Dan

[Libexif-devel] New Danish PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New Icelandic PO file for 'exif' (version 0.6.18)

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[Libexif-devel] New Galician PO file for 'exif' (version 0.6.18)

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[Libexif-devel] New Italian PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New Danish PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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Re: [Libexif-devel] write exif data to a existing jpeg

[Dan F. <da...@co...>]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 01:29:46AM +0200, Leonardo Parisi wrote:
> thank for the answer.. I try to see write-exif.c and the files of the exif command-line.. but for now they don't help me so much..
> I try explain my project/problem... I have to process a lot of images, and these images have already the exif information... 
> I use the libjpeg to open and decompress these images and put it in a memory unsigned char* buffer... now after manipulate these images I
> need to save the new image in another file whit the exif information of the original file.. for write this new jpeg I use yet the libjpeg.
> I not able to merge libexif and libjpeg to work together to save the new file.

Look at action_save() in exif/actions.c

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Re: [Libexif-devel] write exif data to a existing jpeg

[Leonardo P. <leo...@gm...>]

thank for the answer.. I try to see write-exif.c and the files of the exif command-line.. but for now they don't help me so much..
I try explain my project/problem... I have to process a lot of images, and these images have already the exif information... 
I use the libjpeg to open and decompress these images and put it in a memory unsigned char* buffer... now after manipulate these images I
need to save the new image in another file whit the exif information of the original file.. for write this new jpeg I use yet the libjpeg.
I not able to merge libexif and libjpeg to work together to save the new file.


On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 04:05:36PM +0200, Leonardo Parisi wrote:
>> I have a exif data, how I can write on a existing jpeg?
> 
> The sample program contrib/examples/write-exif.c shows a simple example of
> how to write to an existing JPEG image that doesn't already contain EXIF
> tags.  But a more general approach would use the libjpeg library that's
> included in the exif command-line front-end tar ball.  Unfortunately,
> that's not well documented, but the exif main.c is pretty simple and
> readable and will show all you need to know about how to do it.
> 
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Re: [Libexif-devel] write exif data to a existing jpeg

[Dan F. <da...@co...>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 04:05:36PM +0200, Leonardo Parisi wrote:
> I have a exif data, how I can write on a existing jpeg?

The sample program contrib/examples/write-exif.c shows a simple example of
how to write to an existing JPEG image that doesn't already contain EXIF
tags.  But a more general approach would use the libjpeg library that's
included in the exif command-line front-end tar ball.  Unfortunately,
that's not well documented, but the exif main.c is pretty simple and
readable and will show all you need to know about how to do it.

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[Libexif-devel] write exif data to a existing jpeg

[Leonardo P. <leo...@gm...>]

I have a exif data, how I can write on a existing jpeg?

tnx a lot

[Libexif-devel] New Dutch PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New Danish PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New Danish PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New Japanese PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New Latvian PO file for 'exif' (version 0.6.18)

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[Libexif-devel] New Danish PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New Vietnamese PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New Polish PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New German PO file for 'libexif' (version 0.6.20-pre1)

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[Libexif-devel] New template for 'libexif' made available

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Re: [Libexif-devel] Upper or lower?

[Marcus M. <ma...@je...>]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:01:27PM -0800, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 04:07:21PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:07:53PM -0800, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> > > I'm going to make these more consistent. 
> > Sounds good to me. 
> 
> After looking at the sheer number of strings that would have to change,
> I think I'll switch styles to having the "value" strings starting with
> an initial capital letter.  My main complaint was the lack of consistency
> which this will still fix.  With libexif now translated into 21 languages,
> it will save a lot of work for translators since more value strings already
> have this format.  My example set would then look like this:
> 
> Resolution Unit     |Inch
> YCbCr Positioning   |Centered
> Exposure Program    |Normal program
> Orientation         |Top - left
> Metering Mode       |Center-weighted average
> Quality             |Basic  
> Unknown Tag         |0
> FlashPixVersion     |Unknown FlashPix version
> 
> which still looks pretty good.

As translator I have to agree :) It also looks a bit better in that display ;)

Ciao, Marcus

Re: [Libexif-devel] Upper or lower?

[Dan F. <da...@co...>]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 04:07:21PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:07:53PM -0800, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> > I'm going to make these more consistent. 
> Sounds good to me. 

After looking at the sheer number of strings that would have to change,
I think I'll switch styles to having the "value" strings starting with
an initial capital letter.  My main complaint was the lack of consistency
which this will still fix.  With libexif now translated into 21 languages,
it will save a lot of work for translators since more value strings already
have this format.  My example set would then look like this:

Resolution Unit     |Inch
YCbCr Positioning   |Centered
Exposure Program    |Normal program
Orientation         |Top - left
Metering Mode       |Center-weighted average
Quality             |Basic  
Unknown Tag         |0
FlashPixVersion     |Unknown FlashPix version

which still looks pretty good.

>>> Dan
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Re: [Libexif-devel] Upper or lower?

[Marcus M. <ma...@je...>]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:07:53PM -0800, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> libexif is pretty inconsistent about whether it returns strings in
> upper case, lower case or mixed case. For example:
> 
> Resolution Unit     |Inch
> YCbCr Positioning   |centerd
			centered?
> Exposure Program    |Normal program
> Orientation         |top - left
> Metering Mode       |Center-Weighted Average
> Quality             |BASIC  
> Unknown tag         |0
> FlashPixVersion     |Unknown FlashPix Version
> 
> This not only looks funny, but makes the job of translators more difficult;
> forty strings appear up to three times each, differing only in case and
> spacing.  
> 
> I'm going to make these more consistent. If I don't hear any objections,
> I'm going to make the names/titles (the part before the |) mixed upper
> and lower case like an actual title (as most of them above are), and
> the values (after the |) all lower case, except when certain words or
> abbreviations have to be capitalized.  The examples above would then
> look like this:
> 
> Resolution Unit     |inch
> YCbCr Positioning   |centerd
> Exposure Program    |normal program
> Orientation         |top - left
> Metering Mode       |center-weighted average
> Quality             |basic  
> Unknown Tag         |0
> FlashPixVersion     |unknown FlashPix version
> 
> This is going to mean translators are going to have to fix lots of
> translations in the short term, but the output will be nicer in
> the long term. I'll send the new .pot file to the translators right away
> to give them lots of time to update translations before the next release.

Sounds good to me. 

Ciao, Marcus

[Libexif-devel] Upper or lower?

[Dan F. <da...@co...>]

libexif is pretty inconsistent about whether it returns strings in
upper case, lower case or mixed case. For example:

Resolution Unit     |Inch
YCbCr Positioning   |centerd
Exposure Program    |Normal program
Orientation         |top - left
Metering Mode       |Center-Weighted Average
Quality             |BASIC  
Unknown tag         |0
FlashPixVersion     |Unknown FlashPix Version

This not only looks funny, but makes the job of translators more difficult;
forty strings appear up to three times each, differing only in case and
spacing.  

I'm going to make these more consistent. If I don't hear any objections,
I'm going to make the names/titles (the part before the |) mixed upper
and lower case like an actual title (as most of them above are), and
the values (after the |) all lower case, except when certain words or
abbreviations have to be capitalized.  The examples above would then
look like this:

Resolution Unit     |inch
YCbCr Positioning   |centerd
Exposure Program    |normal program
Orientation         |top - left
Metering Mode       |center-weighted average
Quality             |basic  
Unknown Tag         |0
FlashPixVersion     |unknown FlashPix version

This is going to mean translators are going to have to fix lots of
translations in the short term, but the output will be nicer in
the long term. I'll send the new .pot file to the translators right away
to give them lots of time to update translations before the next release.

>>> Dan