Pixelmator Pro 2.0.7 round-tripping

[Michael Naylor]

As a Mac user, I'm thinking Pixelmator Pro could be a good choice for editing images.  However, I'm discovering EXIF issues that do cause problems.  For example, PM Plus fails to recognise the altered GPS data.

If this is a Pixelmator problem I would like to help them fix it.  If the problem is with PM Plus, then I think you should know.  Either way, I seek you assistance and am happy to send both images by WeTransfer for closer inspection.
   
Screenshots of the EXIF BEFORE and AFTER round-tripping.

[Kirk Baker]

Michael,

The before and after files are what we need to investigate.

-Kirk

[Michael Naylor]

Michael,

The before and after files are what we need to investigate.

-Kirk

Image2 sent via Wetransfer to your support email address, which seems to think I raised a ticket.  Perhaps I should have used another address.  Anyway, thank you for looking into this.

[Kirk Baker]

Michael,

The before and after files are what we need to investigate.

Image2 sent via Wetransfer to your support email address, which seems to think I raised a ticket.  Perhaps I should have used another address.  Anyway, thank you for looking into this.

Two images received that appear to be what you posted on this thread.  I need the images from your camera (or scanner, etc.) that you changed with Pixelmator Pro.  I need the image, before editing with Pixelmator Pro and the same image after it has been modified with Pixelmator Pro.

-Kirk

[Michael Naylor]

Michael,

Two images received that appear to be what you posted on this thread.  I need the images from your camera (or scanner, etc.) that you changed with Pixelmator Pro.  I need the image, before editing with Pixelmator Pro and the same image after it has been modified with Pixelmator Pro.

-Kirk

Oops, I'll wetranfer the correct ones now.

[Kirk Baker]

Michael,

Thanks for the sample files.  We're modifying our EXIF parser to accommodate files written the way that Pixelmator Pro writes them.

Note: they're using somewhat of an uncommon yet entirely reasonable way to describe GPS coordinates and not all apps will be happy with those images.  For instance Apple's Preview app doesn't show your sample image as having GPS coordinates.

Another issue is that the GPS data was stripped of its date stamp and the horizontal positioning error data.  I don't know if that was part of your edits or not.

-Kirk
 

[Michael Naylor]

Michael,

We're modifying our EXIF parser to accommodate files written the way that Pixelmator Pro writes them.

-Kirk

Thank you for looking into this and finding a fix. I've forwarded this thread to the Pixelmator team.

[Michael Naylor]

Pixelmator have just released 2.0.8 which appears to have fixed their end of the problem.  IE, an exported TIFF doesn't prevent PMP from reading the GPS anymore.