Hi Peter!
One more note on EXIF and other MetaData:
1.) It would be nice if the user can modify the EXIF Data by himself.
Adding Keywords, Picture Description, GPS Data (I'm currently working on a Web Photoalbum to search for coordinates, make and model of camera,...), Name of the Person who edited the file,...
EXIF Software and Date/Time are not updated when using "Save as..." (look at the example below).
[Exif] Image Description - Communications
[...]
[Exif] Software - Adobe Photoshop 7.0
[Exif] Date/Time - 2002:07:19 13:28:10
[...]
[GPS] GPS Version ID - 2 2 2 2
[GPS] GPS Latitude Ref - N
[GPS] GPS Latitude - 48"51'28.200073
[GPS] GPS Longitude Ref - E
[GPS] GPS Longitude - 2"17'49.19998
[GPS] GPS Time-Stamp - 12:59:4 UTC
[GPS] GPS Map Datum - WGS84
2.) Maybe you can also add JPTC support.
[Iptc] Directory Version - 2
[Iptc] Caption/Abstract - Communications
[Iptc] Writer/Editor - Ian Britton
[Iptc] Headline - Communications
[Iptc] By-line - Ian Britton
[Iptc] By-line Title - Photographer
[Iptc] Credit - Ian Britton
[Iptc] Source - FreeFoto.com
[Iptc] Object Name - Communications
[Iptc] Date Created - Thu Jun 20 00:00:00 CEST 2002
[Iptc] City -
[Iptc] Province/State -
[Iptc] Country/Primary Location - United Kingdom
[Iptc] Category - BUS
[Iptc] Supplemental Category(s) - Communications
[Iptc] Urgency - 53
[Iptc] Keywords - Communications
[Iptc] Copyright Notice - ian Britton - FreeFoto.com
Maybe the Java Code will help you to get it supported.
http://drewnoakes.com/code/exif/
or
http://www.instituteofthefuture.org/exifomatic/
First link currently down, but should be up again.
Regards,
Juergen Ulbts (Germany)
eMail:
julbtsNOSPAMPLEASE@bigfoot.com
(Remove the uppercase word from the address!)
PS: I think you are still involved in the PMMail development, so also note the following stuff...
I hope there will be an updated version of PMMail/2 soon.
There are severals things missing now (look at the forum " Updates for os/2 version?", where I magog posted them some time ago - e.g. Spamfilter, ISO 8859-15? [normal Latin 1 with added Euro Sign - currently not recognized --> annoying], updated HTML display, ASMTP,...).