Added table with supported image formats to man page.

v0.27.3
Andreas Huggel 16 years ago
parent 0da1d88115
commit e65b2db457

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.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.TH EXIV2 1 "Dec 8th, 2008"
.TH EXIV2 1 "Mar 28th, 2009"
.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
.\"
.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@ -29,11 +29,41 @@ exiv2 \- Image metadata manipulation tool
.\" respectively.
.B exiv2
is a program to read and write Exif, IPTC and XMP image metadata and
image comments. Supported formats are JPEG, TIFF, PNG, JP2, Adobe DNG,
Canon CRW, Canon THM, Nikon NEF, Pentax PEF and XMP sidecar files.
Read-only support is currently available for PSD and several TIFF-based
RAW formats: Canon CR2, Fujifilm RAF, Minolta MRW, Olympus ORF, Sony
ARW and Sony SR2.
image comments. The following image formats are supported:
.TS
lB l l l l
_____
l l l l l.
Type Exif IPTC XMP Image comments
JPEG ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite
EXV ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite
CR2 Read Read Read -
CRW ReadWrite - - ReadWrite
MRW Read Read Read -
TIFF ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite -
DNG ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite -
NEF ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite -
PEF ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite -
ARW Read Read Read -
RW2 Read Read Read -
SR2 Read Read Read -
ORF Read Read Read -
PNG ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite
RAF Read Read Read -
XMP - - ReadWrite -
GIF - - - -
PSD ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite -
TGA - - - -
BMP - - - -
JP2 ReadWrite ReadWrite ReadWrite -
.TE
.IP * 2
Support for GIF, TGA and BMP images is minimal: the image format is
recognized, a MIME type assigned to it and the height and width of the
image are determined.
.IP *
Reading other TIFF-like RAW image formats, which are not listed in the
table, may also work.
.SH ACTIONS
The \fIaction\fP argument is only required if it is not clear from the
\fIoptions\fP which action is implied.
@ -168,7 +198,7 @@ I : IPTC datasets
.br
X : XMP properties
.br
x : print a column with the tag value
x : print a column with the tag number
.br
g : group name
.br

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