On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:09:52 +0200 (CEST) Norman Köhring <ko...@mailbox.org> wrote:
> What about Meta-Data? Like with audio files, meta data can be very useful to > have. I have two proposals for this: > > Hence the image format describes the exact size of image data, the meta data > could simple be attached. If the format looks like: > > imgFormat[4]Width[8]Height[8]Data[W×H]Metadata > > e.g.: > > imgRGBA 1600 900[…data…]foo:bar;quux:baz;greeting:"hello world"; Too complex and convulted. > Another way would be to have an additional meta data file. It could be packed > in > a TAR file together with the image data. This leads to a file like > example.image.tgz This is closer to the Unix-philosophy, however, as noted before, bzip2 is way more efficient than gzip. Generally speaking, I don't like the idea of storing meta-information in the image itself. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
