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General => Metadata => Topic started by: colink on July 31, 2022, 08:38:54 PM

Title: Any plans for Exiftool to write meta data to SVG or WebP images?
Post by: colink on July 31, 2022, 08:38:54 PM
Any plans for Exiftool to write meta data to SVG or WebP images?
Title: Re: Any plans for Exiftool to write meta data to SVG or WebP images?
Post by: Phil Harvey on July 31, 2022, 09:27:37 PM
There are plans for WebP, but not SVG.

- Phil
Title: Re: Any plans for Exiftool to write meta data to SVG or WebP images?
Post by: colink on August 01, 2022, 11:17:26 AM
Hi Phil

Thanks for your prompt response. Do you have any approx target date for ability to write to WebP?

I am just about to work on something where embedding the meta data would be useful. If I had some idea of a target date it would help me to decide if I should use WebP - even if I use images without meta data it would be easier to upload same images again with meta data VS starting with jpg then having to edit HTML
Title: Re: Any plans for Exiftool to write meta data to SVG or WebP images?
Post by: StarGeek on August 01, 2022, 02:38:15 PM
While I haven't tested it, I believe that webpmux (https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webpmux) can add XMP and EXIF data to a webp.  At least according to that page it can.  It looks like it will embed an existing EXIF or XMP sidecar file.  It could be at least a temporary solution until exiftool has the ability.

Thanks for bring this up.  I had that page in my bookmarks to go back and look into it, but I had forgotten all about it.

It also appears that exiv2 (https://exiv2.org/) supports writing to webp, although I can't find any examples ATM.
Title: Re: Any plans for Exiftool to write meta data to SVG or WebP images?
Post by: Phil Harvey on September 26, 2022, 01:21:08 PM
I'm working on adding WebP write support to ExifTool 12.46.  See this post for more information (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?msg=75207).

- Phil