Hi,

I have put together a first pass at a plug-in for working with exif data -- the code can be downloaded from the registry, at http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4153

It places itself in the menu as "Filters->Generic->Exif Browser".

Here are the contents of the README file:

GIMP Exif Browser =====================

Copyright (C) 2004 William Skaggs [EMAIL SUPPRESSED]
This is a Gimp 2.0 plug-in that permits the user to view EXIF data from jpeg files. EXIF data is meta-data created by many digital cameras, containing information about the image and the circumstances under which it was created. The plug-in is based on the code for the gtk-exif-browser widget developed by the libexif project (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif). In fact it is little more than a wrapper around that widget.

To be able to use this, you must [1] have libexif installed (download it from the sourceforge site), and [2] have built Gimp with libexif support (this basically means that you need to have installed libexif before you built Gimp, or else you need to rebuild it).
Note that many jpeg files do not contain EXIF data. If this plug-in does not show anything and you think it should, please install my meta-data plug-in, available from the Gimp Plug-in Registry, and use it to check whether the image has an attachment called "jpeg-exif-data". If it does not, then the problem has nothing to do with this plug-in. If it does but you can't view it, then it is a bug, and I would like to hear about it.
Currently the plug-in only works on images loaded from jpeg files, and does not allow the EXIF data to be altered by the user, only viewed. These things will change in later releases.

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Any feedback is welcome.

-- Bill

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