[CREATE] XMP : MakerNote

Cyrille Berger cberger at cberger.net
Sun Jun 10 13:52:51 PDT 2007


> > As for compatibilty with Adobe Creative Suite, the last available
> > specification for PSD doesn't include a position to where maker
> > notes are
> > stored (unless it can be find in the Meta Data Setting ?) while the
> > XMP entry
> > in PSD files is described in the XMP specification, so if the
> > MakerNotes were
> > in the XMP it would be possible to extract it. That's one reason why I
> > preffer to have all metadata stored the same way in a file.
>
> 	Are you referring to the older "public" PSD spec, or the one that is
> part of the Photoshop SDK?
Well, the "out-dated" PSD spec is the only I can read without having to sign a 
NDA :)

> I am happy to look into this for you, to 
> find out more about where Photoshop, Lightroom, etc. put this...
That would be nice, even if it would be even better if you could push Adobe to 
make the PSD specification once again available (as Adobe is allready doing 
for a lot of other formats).

-- 
Cyrille Berger


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