Re: Embedding and extracting license/author information in an image file

[Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>]

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> This is usually done manually in a citation in the caption I think.

I'm using it for beamer presentations for teaching, I'd rather have them
all at the end of the pdf.

> This would not work reliably. I could imagine an insert figure link
> which would check for the data and do that, or perhaps a
> post-insert-link hook function, but neither of these would work if you
> simply type in a link. What should happen with images that don't contain
> the data?

I guess being able to write and read the metadata from emacs would be
enough for now.


> None I know of. I looked at something similar for pdf, but did not find
> anything but external programs.

As I mentioned image-dired has image-dired-set-exif-data and
image-dired-get-exif-data: it might be useful.

Julien.