Is it possible to Export, Textedit, & then Import EXIF informationusing freeware?

EXIF Info wrote:
Is it possible to Export, Textedit, & then Import EXIF information with
freeware?

There is even software to do it directly without the intermediate
text/XML. Google it.

Has you ever done it yourself? (if so, you're a genius!)

I know.

If so, you're a genious. How did you do it?

My mom agrees with you.

--
Bertrand

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:13:34 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:

How did you do it?
My mom agrees with you.

Give up. There is no exif editing tool that will read in a text file.

If there were, someone would say so.

The reason no tool will read in an edited exif text file is because the
tool developers don't want to risk the inevitable crashes that would occur.

All exif editing tools will only edit their own proprietary binary files
and then read in only their own binary exif information.

It would be nice if there were an exif standard but there isn't.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:26:15 -0700, Dan Cline wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:13:34 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:

How did you do it?
My mom agrees with you.

Give up. There is no exif editing tool that will read in a text file.

If there were, someone would say so.


There is such in Linux, but I'll let the OP search for it himself as he
seems bent on nefarious ways that the photography world can do without.
(or trying to scam personals sites with false info as he mentioned).

Dave


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Registered Linux user # 444770
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a
hole in his head.

Dan Cline wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:13:34 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:

How did you do it?
My mom agrees with you.

Give up. There is no exif editing tool that will read in a text file.

If there were, someone would say so.

There is at least one...

The reason no tool will read in an edited exif text file is because the
tool developers don't want to risk the inevitable crashes that would occur.

Changing the Exifs in a file is no more complicated that rewriting them
together with a modified version of the picture (PS, PSP, GIMP...)

All exif editing tools will only edit their own proprietary binary files
and then read in only their own binary exif information.

Something which is ignored by the author of the software I just used. Of
course he is not using binary files to export the exifs, he uses XML.
And as a software developer myself, I can tell you that playing with
exifs is ridiculously easy compared to writing a working JPEG
encoder/decoder from scratch, for instance.

It would be nice if there were an exif standard but there isn't.

There is a standard for the core stuff (http://www.exif.org/, and in
particular http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF). This format defines 1) how
data items are stored, so anyone can come up with tags for his own
purpose, and 2) a common set of core tags (standard enough for the
Windows explorer to use it (check the columns you can use in a "details"
view)). Of course camera makers have added their own extensions and they
may even use different extensions depending on model.

Reading/writing this data isn't difficult, even if the software doesn't
know what the purpose of a given tag would be (and so could not display
a human-friendly name). In fact anyone familiar with binary editors can
patch up the data quite easily since most of it is fixed-length.

--
Bertrand

Dan Cline wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:13:34 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:

How did you do it?
My mom agrees with you.

Give up. There is no exif editing tool that will read in a text file.

If there were, someone would say so.

The reason no tool will read in an edited exif text file is because the
tool developers don't want to risk the inevitable crashes that would occur.

All exif editing tools will only edit their own proprietary binary files
and then read in only their own binary exif information.

It would be nice if there were an exif standard but there isn't.

Actually, it is "Exif", and yes it is a standard.

http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchang...ge_file_format

And yes it is relatively easy (for a programmer) to
write Exif data into an image file from a text file.
Virtually every image editing program does it!

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:29:07 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:

anyone familiar with binary editors can
patch up Exif data quite easily since most of it is fixed-length

There is no software extant that imports Exif information from a text file.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:51:30 -0800, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:

And yes it is relatively easy (for a programmer) to
write Exif data into an image file from a text file.
Virtually every image editing program does it!

Name one.

Tom wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:51:30 -0800, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:

And yes it is relatively easy (for a programmer) to
write Exif data into an image file from a text file.
Virtually every image editing program does it!

Name one.

GIMP, Photoshop (various versions), Adobe Lightroom, Paintshop Pro,
XNView, IrfanView... When they save pictures, these programs have to
write the exifs, too!

--
Bertrand

Tom wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:29:07 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:

anyone familiar with binary editors can
patch up Exif data quite easily since most of it is fixed-length

There is no software extant that imports Exif information from a text file.

You're mistaken. But note that I wasn't even talking about editing a
text file, I was talking about editing the binary data directly by
poking the new values in the right bytes, something people really
familiar with computers(*) know how to do.

(*) Say, those who understand hexadecimal notation
--
Bertrand

Tom wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:29:07 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:

anyone familiar with binary editors can
patch up Exif data quite easily since most of it is fixed-length

There is no software extant that imports Exif information from a text file.

Sure there is. ExifUtils (http://www.hugsan.com/EXIFutils) has two
programs which allow this. Specifically exiflist and exifedit.


From the EXIFutils Command Reference Guide for Microsoft Windows V2.7 -
page 49:
*List with Nickname*
exiflist /o ln /f file-name,make,f-number myphoto.jpg
file-name=”myphoto.jpg”,make=”KODAK”,f-number=”2.8”

*This output format is particularly useful as it is the same format that
exifedit /a accepts as input.*

This means that exiflist and exifedit can be used in combination to
transfer fields from one image file to another. For example:

exiflist /o ln /f copyright photo.jpg | exifedit /a @- photo2.jpg

The above command copies the copyright field from photo.jpg into photo2.jpg.
/documentation

You can substitute files vs using pipes "|" and input from stdin "@-".

--

Len