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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sorry, I was assuming you were working
with Geotiff’s.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>One tool that I’ve used for graphic
arts and photography related work is specific toward EXIF information. There
are a variety of other free command-line apps available if you search for them
in a variety of needs and language flavors. This one seems to pack many of the
desirable formats into one application: <a
href="http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool_pod.html">http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool_pod.html</a>
- Again, you can create .bat files for DOS batching as well.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you’re editing images with the
recent Adobe proprietary Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) structure, you’ll
find very little in way of such tag manipulation capability in command-line
form or automation – at least without having to pay for it, or it being
readily available in the Open Source.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hope this helps,</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Daniel</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Nivedita Candade
[mailto:nivedita.candade@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 29, 2005
4:22 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Daniel Denk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Geotiff] Tiff header
modification</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thank you Daniel. I did try to use those programs. I
am looking for generic 'tiff' tags in addition to Geotiff tags. I already have
information such as imageheight, resolution, rows/strip etc., but
want to add 'Image descriptionTag' and 'documentNameTag'. These are not part of
the tags that listgeo/geotifcp use. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I would like to know how I can update these tif tags.
In short, is there an equivalent of listgeo<=>geotifcp for basic tiff
header information ? <br>
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Hope I was clear enough.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks for your help.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nivedita</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=gmailquote><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 9/29/05, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Daniel Denk</span></b> <<a
href="mailto:ddenk@earthlink.net">ddenk@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</span></font></span>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Nivedita,</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you look on the
Geotiff main page, there are two methods in programs available for free to the
Open Source: </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Two tools are the
original listgeo and geotifcp DOS command-line tools (.exe's) to either strip
Geotiff metadata from a georeferenced .tif file, or to re-copy geotiff metadata
from a text file to make a Geotiff .tif file. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There is a free GUI
provided by Geosage which is a graphical wrapper for the above two programs, to
run the common use commands in a typical, or more intuitive Windows type of
environment – but is only capable of running individual files. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you want to batch, you
can create a .bat (batch) file for the DOS command-line that loops through the
files in the directory you specify for either of the command-line tools. You
will have to know how to create a .bat file and a little DOS code. There are
many examples of creating such .bat's on the web. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I'd suggest you become
familiar with listgeo and geotifcp if your aim is to batch through these tools
– familiarize yourself with DOS commands and scripting basics to write
the needed .bat (batch) files. Once you're familiar with this, you'll realize
that you can apply similar .bat files for other command-line use tools to
automate their functions. There are also several approaches you can take to run
a .bat file which can drastically improve efficiency in your workflow. I would
only suggest a method that's suited to your comfort level. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hope this helps,</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Daniel</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> <a
href="mailto:geotiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org" target="_blank"
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">geotiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:geotiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org" target="_blank"
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">geotiff-bounces@lists.maptools.org</a>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Nivedita Candade<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 29, 2005
3:30 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <a
href="mailto:geotiff@lists.maptools.org" target="_blank"
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">geotiff@lists.maptools.org</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Geotiff] Tiff header
modification</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Can someone tell me how to modify/ update a tiff
header ? Are there any tools (in windows) to do so ? Also, I need to batch this
process, so anything automated would help. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks in advance.</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nivedita Candade</span></font></p>
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