New upstream version 12.60+dfsg

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html
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+++ b/html/index.html
@@ -89,13 +89,14 @@ the site with a moderate load.  An alternate ExifTool homepage is available at
 <br><a href="#ack">Acknowledgements</a>
 <br><a href="#license">License</a>
 <br><a href="#donate">Donate</a>
+<br><a href="#background">Background</a>
 <br><a href="#contact">Contact Me</a>
 </div>
 
 <blockquote><table class='dl lg'><tr><td><b>
-<a href="Image-ExifTool-12.58.tar.gz">
-Download        Version 12.58</a> (5.0 MB) -
-<a href="history.html">Mar. 15, 2023</a></b></td></tr></table></blockquote>
+<a href="Image-ExifTool-12.60.tar.gz">
+Download        Version 12.60</a> (5.0 MB) -
+<a href="history.html">Apr. 5, 2023</a></b></td></tr></table></blockquote>
 
 <p><b>ExifTool is a platform-independent <a href="ExifTool.html">Perl
 library</a> plus a <a href="exiftool_pod.html">command-line application</a> for
@@ -148,8 +149,8 @@ distribution above.)</i></p>
 
 <blockquote><table class='dl lg'><tr><td><b>
 <a name="alone">Windows Executable:</a>
-<a href="exiftool-12.58.zip">
-         exiftool-12.58.zip</a> (6.6 MB)</b></td></tr></table></blockquote>
+<a href="exiftool-12.60.zip">
+         exiftool-12.60.zip</a> (6.6 MB)</b></td></tr></table></blockquote>
 
 <p><b>The stand-alone Windows executable</b> does not require Perl. Just
 download and un-zip the archive then double-click on
@@ -166,8 +167,8 @@ if you have any problems/comments with this version.)</i></p>
 
 <blockquote><table class='dl lg'><tr><td><b>
 MacOS Package:
-<a href="ExifTool-12.58.dmg">
-         ExifTool-12.58.dmg</a> (3.2 MB)</b></td></tr></table></blockquote>
+<a href="ExifTool-12.60.dmg">
+         ExifTool-12.60.dmg</a> (3.2 MB)</b></td></tr></table></blockquote>
 
 <p><b>The MacOS package</b> installs the ExifTool command-line application and
 libraries in /usr/local/bin. After installing, type "<code>exiftool</code>" in a
@@ -235,6 +236,10 @@ for the SHA1 and MD5 checksums to verify these distribution packages</a>.</li>
 <li>Conditionally processes files based on value of any meta information</li>
 <li>Ability to <a href="config.html">add custom user-defined tags</a></li>
 <li><a href="TagNames/MWG.html">Support for MWG</a> (Metadata Working Group) recommendations</li>
+<li>Ability to read tags from multiple files simultaneously, allowing metadata to be compared
+and combined between files</li>
+<li>Generates MD5 hash of image data only for many file types (for comparison and validation
+of image data)</li>
 <li>Recognizes <a href="TagNames/index.html">thousands of different tags</a></li>
 <li>Tested with images from <a href="https://exiftool.org/models.html">thousands of different camera models</a></li>
 <li>Advanced <a href="verbose.html">verbose</a> and <a href="htmldump.html">HTML-based
@@ -906,6 +911,8 @@ leading "0x" if the <a href="ExifTool.html#HexTagIDs">HexTagIDs API option</a>
 is set, as are characters in non-numerical ID's which are not valid in a group
 name.  Note that unlike other group names, family 7 group names are case
 sensitive.)</td></tr>
+<tr><td><b>8&nbsp;(File&nbsp;Number)</b></td>
+<td>File# (for files loaded via <code>-file<i>NUM</i></code> option)</td></tr>
 </table></blockquote>
 
 <p>The exiftool output can be organized based on these groups using the
@@ -1207,15 +1214,17 @@ Defender</b> may speed things up significantly.</p>
 
 <p>The processing speed of ExifTool can be improved when extracting information
 by reducing the amount of work that it must do.  Decrease the number of
-extracted tags by specifying them individually (<code>-TAG</code>) or by group
-(<code>-GROUP:all</code>), and disable the composite tags (<code>-e</code>) and
-the print conversions (<code>-n</code>) if these features aren't required.  Note
-that the exclude options (<code>-x</code> or <code>--TAG</code>) are not very
-efficient, and may have a negative impact on performance if a large number of
-tags are excluded individually.  The exception is XMP groups, which are bypassed
-in processing so they are never even extracted -- specifying
+extracted tags by specifying desired tags individually (<code>-TAG</code>) or by
+group (<code>-GROUP:all</code>), and disable the composite tags (<code>-e</code>)
+and the print conversions (<code>-n</code>) if these features aren't required. 
+Note that the exclude options (<code>-x</code> or <code>--TAG</code>) are not
+very efficient, and may have a negative impact on performance if a large number
+of tags are excluded individually.  The exception is XMP groups, which are
+bypassed in processing so they are never even extracted -- specifying
 <code>--XMP-crs:all</code> and <code>-XMP-crd:all</code> may speed processing
-significantly by avoiding processing of bulky Adobe image-editing information.</p>
+significantly by avoiding processing of bulky Adobe image-editing information.
+The <a href="ExifTool.html#IgnoreTags">API IgnoreTags option</a> (added in
+ExifTool 12.43) may also be used for significant speed benefits in some cases.</p>
 
 <p>The <code>-fast</code> option can significantly increase speed when
 extracting information from JPEG images which are piped across a slow network
@@ -1535,6 +1544,25 @@ exiftool.org and pay for web site hosting, and for the Mac Mini used to generate
 distribution files, run the necessary Windows virtual machine, and maintain
 source-code and forum backups.)</i></p>
 
+<h2><a name="background">Phil's Background</a></h2>
+
+<p>Phil has a master's degree in nuclear physics and is now officially retired
+from his position at Queen's University where he worked with the Nobel-prize-winning
+<a href="https://sno.phy.queensu.ca">Sudbury Neutrino Observatory</a> (SNO) team
+and other SNOLab experiments from 1990 to 2020.  For SNO he wrote the software
+to aquire, format, store and display all of the hundreds of terabytes of data
+generated by the detector; software that continues to be used by
+<a href="https://snoplus.phy.queensu.ca">SNO+</a> for their even greater data
+volume.</p>
+
+<p>ExifTool started as a simple utility used to display metadata from
+images hosted on the SNO web site, but quickly expanded in scope as Phil got
+involved with digital photography beginning in 2001.  During retirement Phil
+continues to enjoy digital photography, a hobby which he now applies to bird
+watching. A selection of his birding pictures may be found in his recent
+<a href="https://www.blurb.ca/b/11481065-birds-of-kingston">Birds of Kingston</a>
+book.</p>
+
 <h2><a name="contact">Contact Me</a></h2>
 
 <p>If you have any comments, suggestions or questions, please post to the