Image-ExifTool
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Mar. 7, 2007 - Version 6.79
- Translate special characters in ID3 information when reading
- Improved conversions for GPSTimeStamp and GPSDateStamp when writing so they
can be set from a normal date/time tag (eg. "-gpstimestamp<createdate")
- Added support for Nikon D40X plus a new LensID (thanks Robert Rottmerhusen)
- Added a new Canon LensType (thanks Warren Stockton)
- Removed D70Boring shortcut tag
- Fixed minor problem in HtmlDump of MakerNotes header introduced in 6.78
- Fixed problem decoding second Pentax K10D LensType value for some lenses
Feb. 28, 2007 - Version 6.78
- Decode Nikon D200 multi-exposure tags
- Decode Canon BlackLevel tag and added a few new CanonModelID's
- Added support for new Olympus u760 maker note format (finally Olympus fixes
the major blunders of their older maker note design!)
- Added support for the rare Canon EOS K236 (variation of EOS 400D)
- Improved decoding of Canon EOS 1D Mark III tags
- Included PDF version of MIE format specification in distribution
- Reformat invalid EXIF date/time values when writing (unless -n option used)
- Minor updates to some Pentax tags for Optio M30
Feb. 20, 2007 - Version 6.77 - "XML/HTML special characters"
- Translate numeric character references when reading XMP
- Translate all HTML 4 character references to UTF-8 when reading HTML
- Translate all non-ASCII characters to HTML character entities with -h or -E
- Added full UTF-8 translation support when run with Perl pre-5.6.1
- Decode a few new Sigma SD14 tags
- Decode a couple more Nikon tags (thanks Greg Troxel)
Feb. 16, 2007 - Version 6.76 (production release)
- Added patch for Perl 5.6.x bug which caused an HTML test to fail
- Added a few new Pentax tags and fixed a LensType value (thanks Axel Kellner)
Feb. 14, 2007 - Version 6.75 (production release)
- Added read support for DOC, XLS and PPT documents
- Added Composite GPS tags to facilitate copying GPS between EXIF and XMP
- Added patch for problems in Sanyo J1, J2, J4, S1, S3 and S4 maker notes
- Added new Microsoft OffsetSchema tag (new, ill-conceived PhotoInfo tag)
- Decode more Pentax tags and improved decoding for some K10D tags
- Shortened tag name of HTML:MSSmartTagsPreventParsing to NoMSSmartTags
- Fixed oversight to allow new IPTC and XMP records to be added to ORF images
- Fixed problem extracting RIFF MakerNotes by tag name
- Fixed problem with drag-n-drop of Windows files on a network drive
- Fixed problem copying GPSAltitude from EXIF to XMP
Feb. 2, 2007 - Version 6.74
- Added support for chained SubIFD's in TIFF images
- Updated GeoTiff support for new definitions in libgeotiff-1.2.3
- Fixed problem when rewriting unknown records in Adobe DNGPrivateData
- Fixed bug introduced in 6.47 that could prevent Photoshop EXIF CameraRAW
tags from being extracted properly
Jan. 31, 2007 - Version 6.73
- Added read support for meta information in HTML and XHTML documents
- Added ability to write certain EXIF tags (eg. UserComment) as Unicode
- Added character set translation for XMP information; the -L option now works
for all common meta information formats! (see updated FAQ #10 for details)
- Added a few more XMP-microsoft tags (thanks Kees Moerman)
- Decode FirmwareRevision found in some Canon PowerShot models
- Preserve date/time tags that exist in the wrong EXIF IFD when shifting times
- Fixed bug which could result in an incorrect value for the Directory tag
- Fixed problem parsing XMP with BOM introduced in 6.71
Jan. 25, 2007 - Version 6.72
- Added XMP-microsoft:LastKeywordIPTC tag
- Renamed new MicrosoftPhoto Rating2 tag to RatingPercent
- Fixed problem where rdf:about attribute could be lost when writing XMP
Jan. 24, 2007 - Version 6.71
- Decode a lot of new Pentax DSLR information (thanks Cvetan Ivanov)
- Patched Microsoft Photo bugs in XMP formatting
- Patched Microsoft Photo bug in EXIF Unicode text byte ordering
- Added support for XMP-microsoft tags and 2 new Microsoft EXIF tags
- Added a few new XMP tags (NativeDigest, ColorMode and ICCProfileName)
- Added ability to add or delete copied tags from list (eg. "-SRCTAG+>DSTTAG")
- Added a few more Canon EasyMode values (thanks Samson Tai)
- Added CanonModelID values for new A450, A460 and A550
- Changed the -if option so the condition automatically fails if the
expression generates a warning (use -v to show the warning)
- Specified LF character (0x0a) for MIE text newline sequence
- Catch warnings if perldoc doesn't exist when running with no arguments
- Minor tweaks/fixes to htmldump output
Jan. 19, 2007 - Version 6.70 - "IPTC Character Coding"
- Translate coded characters in IPTC string values (UTF8 and Latin only), and
assume Latin encoding if no CodedCharacterSet (see FAQ #10 for details)
- Enhanced IPTC:CodedCharacterSet print conversion so "ESC % G" is now printed
as "UTF8" (either may be used when writing)
- Specified ISO 8859-1 character set for MIE ASCII string values
- Added warnings for UTF-8 conversion errors
- Decode a few new Pentax tags
- Decode maker notes in Pentax DNG images
Jan. 8, 2007 - Version 6.69
- Decode information in NikonScanIFD
- Enhanced -p option to allow expressions to be used
- The -p option no longer suppresses error and warning messages
- Made ImageSourceData writable
- Reduced font size of htmldump output
- Fixed "Argument isn't numeric" error when reading an image with a missing
IFD offset
Jan. 3, 2007 - Version 6.68
- Added mechanism to allow Composite tags to be writable
- Recognize XMP sidecar files that begin with a UTF BOM (byte order mark)
- Changed TIFF ImageSourceData tag to a Binary data type
- Fixed problem which could cause warning when writing XMP in PNG images
- Fixed bug when shifting times in an XMP sidecar file that caused an invalid
date/time to be written if the tag didn't previously exist
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