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From: Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 05:22:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: [IMAGING] TagInfo and distinction between TagName and FieldName
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On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Farrukh Najmi
<farrukh@wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am new to the project so forgive me if the answer is obvious...
>
> I am working with latest svn bits and the
> org.apache.commons.imaging.formats.tiff.taginfos.TagInfo class seems to only
> support the TagName column of Table 3 TIFF Rev. 6.0 Attribute Information
> Used in Exif in the Exif spec <http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF>. I need
> access to FieldName as it seems more suitable as a human-friendly identifier
> for the tag.
>
> I think it would be ideal if TagInfo supports both TagName and FieldName.
> What does the dev team think? If there are not many -1s then I will file in
> RFE in JIRA.
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Farrukh
>
> Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com
>

Hi Farrukh

The TIFF6 specification Appendix A only has a "TagName", which is
similar to Exif 2.2's "FieldName". Other TIFF tag specifications (DNG,
TIFFPM6, RFC 2301) also only give a name and a description.

Maybe what we need is:
Use TagInfo's "name" field for the name taken verbatim from those
specs (eg. use "ImageWidth" instead of "Image Width")
Add a "description" field to TagInfo with a long description (eg.
"Image width, the number of columns in the image")

What do you think?

Regards
Damjan

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