Re: [Libexif-devel] Re: libmnote and libexif merged

[Lutz <lu...@us...>]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 21:04, Roberto Costa wrote:
> Lutz M=FCller wrote:
> I'm not convinced that is an acceptable behaviour the fact that a
> libexif user that processes his/her images with the library may lose
> information because of lack of knowledge about his/her camera maker
> notes.
> My idea is that libexif should always be conservative and do its best
> not to corrupt any user exif info.

Agreed. So, if we encounter MakerNotes other than Canon, Olympus and
Pentax, we'd like to preserve data between IFDs at its original offsets.
The easiest way (I guess) to accomplish that would be to preserve the
original EXIF data, to append our new/modified EXIF data at the end and
simply point in the EXIF header to our new IFD0...

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Lutz M=FCller <lu...@us...>