What's New in V2.7

EXIFutils V2.7 includes the following new features:

Support for international character sets

EXIFutils commands can now interpret and set EXIF and IPTC fields values using character sets other than the basic low range ASCII characters, including WindowsXP-specific UNICODE fields.

  • Added the /p option to set the character set used to interpret EXIF and IPTC text fields. Environment variables can also be used to specify characters sets.
  • Added the /u option to exifedit to specify that EXIF Comment fields are to be stored in UNICODE (previous only ASCII comments were supported).
  • Add support for viewing and editing Windows XP specific UNICODE fields.
  • Added /i option to exiflist, to display the character sets being used.
Support for additional file format and camera makes
  • Add "read only" support for EXIF fields in Encapsulated Postscript (.eps) files.
  • Add support for Ricoh Maker Note fields.
  • Add read only support for Ricoh RMETA Custom Fields (created by Ricoh Pro G3 GPS-capable camera).
Changes to EXIF and IPTC field definitions
  • Add support for XP Digital Image Pro Tags field (0x4747)
  • Increase max length of ip-keyword field from 32 to 1999 characters.
  • Add list of defined values for IPTC Coded Character Set field (1:90), nickname ip1-char-set.
  • If the denominator of the exp-time value is not a whole number to two decimal places, then display it's value to two decimal places.
Bug Fixes
  • Fix bug where two fields had the same nickname (n3-color-mode). Second   occurence of the field was renamed to n3-color-mode2.
  • Make handling of invalid 'next IFD' offset pointers more robust. In previous versions invalid offset pointers cause a "too many format errors" message and resulted in incomplete EXIF data.
  • Fix bug in handling of TIFF strip offsets and lengths with datatype SHORT.
  • Fix bug in exiflist -t option that caused extracted thumbnail to be incorrect for some Nikon images. The problem occured when there were two thumbnails in the image, one of which was in the Nikon Maker note.
  • Rename "Nikon NEF Thumbnail" IFD to "Nikon Thumbnail" as this IFD can also appear in JPEG files.
  • Fix bug in editing files containing Thumbnails embedded in Nikon Maker Notes
  • Fix bug that caused incorrect values to be set when IPTC values were being both set and used as template values in the same exifedit command.
  • Improve validation of command arguments containing @ file input as invalid values could cause the program to crash.
  • Allow exif-ver field to be set to values higher than "0220" as image files using version "0221" are now available.