[Clipart] ANNOUNCE: SVG::Metadata

Bryce Harrington bryce at bryceharrington.com
Sun Jun 13 12:38:53 PDT 2004


On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:
> >Do you know of tools for editing the metadata in a PNG file?  I could
> >modify the script to include a metadata insertion into the generated PNG
> >files as part of the process.
> 
> pngcrush will do it.  I wanted to resolve issues with the PNG group
> before writing it up.
> 
> For example,
> 
> pngcrush -text b "Copyright" \
> "copyright 2000 svg-scribblers, Inc.
> Placed in Public Domain June 2004" \
> -text b "Author" "J. F. Scribbler, www.svg-scribblers.com" \
> in.png out.png
> 
> The "b" means place the resulting tEXt chunk before the IDAT chunks.
> Otherwise use "a" to put it after the IDAT.
> 
> Glenn

Thanks!  I'll add support for that in the next release of the tool.
Being able to include the metadata in the PNG's will be quite nice.  :-)

Bryce




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