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Andreas Huggel, 06 Mar 2009 02:26

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h1. Supported image formats
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The following table shows supported image formats and support level for release 0.18.
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Note:
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* Write support for RAW image formats is new in release 0.18. Be sure to test carefully if your applications work well with images modified by Exiv2.
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* Reading other TIFF-like RAW image formats, which are not listed in the table, may also work. Exiv2 was so far only tested with the more popular RAW image formats.
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* Support for GIF, TGA and BMP is minimal: Exiv2 recognizes the image format, assigns a MIME type to it and is able to determine the image height and width of the image.
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| *Type* | *Exif mode* | *IPTC mode* | *XMP mode*  | *Comment mode* |
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| JPEG | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite    |
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| EXV  | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite    |
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| CR2  | Read      | Read      | Read      | -            |
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| CRW  | ReadWrite | -         | -         | ReadWrite    |
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| MRW  | Read      | Read      | Read      | -            |
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| TIFF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | -            |
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| DNG  | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | -            |
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| NEF  | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | -            |
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| PEF  | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | -            |
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| ARW  | Read      | Read      | Read      | -            |
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| SR2  | Read      | Read      | Read      | -            |
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| ORF  | Read      | Read      | Read      | -            |
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| PNG  | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite    |
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| RAF  | Read      | Read      | Read      | -            |
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| XMP  | -         | -         | ReadWrite | -            |
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| GIF  | -         | -         | -         | -            |
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| PSD  | Read      | Read      | Read      | -            |
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| TGA  | -         | -         | -         | -            |
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| BMP  | -         | -         | -         | -            |
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| JP2  | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | -            |