I just tried out opening a jpeg with a text editor (vim), and changing
the comment manually. This works fine if you make the new comment the
same length as the old one. If the new comment is longer, a warning
is issued when opening about extraneous bytes, and if the new comment
is smaller it doesn't open. This can be fixed by opening with a hex
editor, and changing the byte before the comment:
xxd myfile.jpg > myfile.hex
change the line:
0000010: 0048 0000 fffe 0007 4865 6c6c 6fff db00 .H......Hello...
to:
0000010: 0048 0000 fffe 0004 4865 6c6c 6fff db00 .H......Hello...
convert back to binary:
xxd -r myfile.hex > myfile.jpg
Then change "Hello" to "Hi" with a text editor like vim.
And I figured that out without even looking at the documentation! I
bet it would only take a little C to make an automated jpeg comment
changer. Oh, and upon some looking around, there's one right on my
system: wrjpgcom. So read the man page on it and see if that's what
you want.
-James Smaby
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