[Bins] exif tags questions

Jérôme SAUTRET jerome at sautret.org
Sat Jun 14 11:35:01 BST 2003


On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:47:19AM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> When using bins-edit, meta-data are saved in xml files, whereas camera
> saves orientation in image file directly. This result in some images
> having native correct orientation and other depending on external
> resources for this. Is this a deliberate choice ?

Exif data is stored in XML files because any modification of the image
with most image editors detroy the Exif structure. So, all meta-data are
in XML files after the firt run of bins.

> The date tag also is inserted by the camera, and appears in generated
> HTML pages. However, it doesn't appear in bins-edit-gui for instance.
> Why ?

I'm not the author of bins-edit-gui, but I think this can be easyly
added. You can add or modify the date with bins_edit if you want.

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