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How to read EXIF data from a .afphoto document


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In a way, your prior post was in the proper spot, @Awtd, as it was in Suggestions, and you start out asking if Serif can provide a new function :)

Yes, they could, if they decide they want to.

And no, the .afphoto file format is not documented. Though, apparently, some vendors have figured out how to read the thumbnails that Affinity Photo can store in the .afphoto file.

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17 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

In a way, your prior post was in the proper spot, @Awtd, as it was in Suggestions, and you start out asking if Serif can provide a new function :)

Yes, they could, if they decide they want to.

And no, the .afphoto file format is not documented. Though, apparently, some vendors have figured out how to read the thumbnails that Affinity Photo can store in the .afphoto file.

Thanks for the reply.  Mat I ask which vendors have figured out to read  Affinity Photo thumbnails ?

 

Thanks

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37 minutes ago, Awtd said:

Mat I ask which vendors have figured out to read  Affinity Photo thumbnails ?

At least XnViewMP; I'm not sure which others.

-- Walt
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PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
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I just downloaded XnViewMP. It can read Exif data from jpg, tiff and NEF(raw) file but can not read exif data from the afphoto file.  See attached screen shot.

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Serif  why don't you make available an API to read the exif data you have in afphoto document ? Why don't you publish your file format ?  That would allow application like XnViewMP and NeoFinder to get read access to your affinity document and many people would benefit from it.... Be opened

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12 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Though, apparently, some vendors have figured out how to read the thumbnails that Affinity Photo can store in the .afphoto file.

Well on Macs (OS X) they can reuse Apple's Quick Look for this (image thumb preview), since Serif already adds plugins for their Affinity file types to the OS. - They may have something like that for Win too, don't know or looked there, since I mostly use TC there and not Win Explorer.

☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan
☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2

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