Save annotations without recoding image?

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floele
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Save annotations without recoding image?

Post by floele » Thu Oct 29, 2015 2:15 pm

Hi,

is it possible to save annotations made with the GdViewer control to an existing image (as meta data) without re-encoding the image to avoid quality loss for JEPG files?

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Florian

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Re: Save annotations without recoding image?

Post by Loïc » Mon Nov 02, 2015 5:43 pm

Hello Florian,

It is possible to save the annotations content into a file. But GdPicture do not offer a way to modify metadata of a document without subsequent loading and saving steps.

Please let me know if you need further information.

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Loïc

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Re: Save annotations without recoding image?

Post by floele » Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:26 pm

How do you suggest to save annotations to a JPEG image then? You can hardly expect me to save them in a separate file, because your SDK advertises the ability to save annotations to images. It is not acceptable that the image quality deteriorates everytime an annotation is modified.

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Re: Save annotations without recoding image?

Post by Loïc » Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:35 pm

As I previously said, if you want to modify the metadata stored into a bitmap file you have to open the bitmap, modify the metadata then save the bitmap. There is no other way. In the compression scheme if the bitmap is lossy, I can only suggest to save the metadata as a separated file or blob.

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Re: Save annotations without recoding image?

Post by floele » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:26 pm

The meta data is just some XML at the beginning of the file. Why would you not be able to only modify the XML without touching the image data?

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Re: Save annotations without recoding image?

Post by Loïc » Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:48 pm

This is really not so easy to accomplish. GdPicture 11 do not support that yet but this feature is into our back log and will be probably considered soon.

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