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Re: Writing PNG file in pure IDL with metadata [message #92160 is a reply to message #92146]

Wed, 21 October 2015 10:13

Jim Pendleton
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On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 5:28:09 AM UTC-6, andrew...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 21:53:42 UTC+10:30, Mark Hadfield wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 20:39:13 UTC+13, andrew...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have a bunch of Canon RAW .CR2 files that I'd like to transmogrify
>>> into PNG files with nice informative metadata embedded in them.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately IDL's inbuilt READ_PNG and WRITE_PNG don't know that PNG files can take metadata, and it looks like I'll be old, fat and bald before they do.
>>> Wait, I am old, fat and bald... :-(
>>>
>>> Anyway, I wondering if anyone has invented this particular wheel before.
>>> I'd be happy to work with a pure IDL write routine, or some method of Spawning off a command to a 3rd party program.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>
>> ImageMagick should do this:
>>
>> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#attributes
>>
>> It's available on Linux, obviously, and on Windows via Cygwin. I haven't used ImageMagick for this purpose but I do regularly use it from IDL for format conversion (usually on windows via Cygwin).
>
> Thanks Mark. I was thinking I'd have to wait for a reply until the Yanks woke up, but I forgot about you worthy New Zealanders... ;-)
>
> Andrew

Andrew,

Though I can't share it, I wrote a procedure that supports writing both zTXt and tEXt to existing PNG files in fewer than 200 lines of IDL including lots of comments. It could be reduced even more with ZLIB_COMPRESS that was introduced to IDL since my original effort. I had to hack that with a temp file using /COMPRESS at the time.

The only remotely tricky part of the code is the application of the CRC. You can find the reference C implementation of the CRC here in Section 3.4: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Structure.html#CR C-algorithm

I'd bet you can slap together a working version in less than an hour, which is significantly less time than you might wait for the feature to show up in a released version of IDL.

Jim P
"I work for Harris, but speak not for the Corporation"

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		Writing PNG file in pure IDL with metadata By: andrewcool777 on Tue, 20 October 2015 00:39
		Re: Writing PNG file in pure IDL with metadata By: Mark[1] on Tue, 20 October 2015 04:23
		Re: Writing PNG file in pure IDL with metadata By: andrewcool777 on Tue, 20 October 2015 04:28
		Re: Writing PNG file in pure IDL with metadata By: Jim Pendleton on Wed, 21 October 2015 10:13
		Re: Writing PNG file in pure IDL with metadata By: andrewcool777 on Mon, 07 December 2015 19:16
		Re: Writing PNG file in pure IDL with metadata By: MarioIncandenza on Tue, 08 December 2015 13:52
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