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Old 05-12-2009
SilversleevesX SilversleevesX is offline
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Cool Innate flaw in this utility and in Exiv2

Nice to see that folks working at the same problem from two different directions can run into the same brick wall and not know it.

I just ran both the Moore tool and exiv2 on a JPEG where the caption had several line breaks. Both tools ran one line over the other until the output for that particular field was a garbled mess.

Okay, it's likely David Moore has moved on to greener pastures. But what about Exiv2? I presume it's still being maintained and updated. Who should I let know about this (or ask and get their explanations as to why)?

In a way, it's no longer a question of syntax, but more a challenge to the coders in the audience: is it possible to do this thing better?

BZT

PS: The Moore tool is described on (and downloadable from) from this Sourceforge project page.

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