Does Apple Quality Control require camera properties in the Exif record for every image that is in a book created by iBooks Author before it will publish that book or does it not matter whether the image has camera properties or not? Ant..
Not required for iBA/iOS.
Thanks for the prompt response I thought that they were a bit sensitive to copyright, publisher entitlements and that you had approval from the copyright holder. Notwithstanding your response me thinks that its probably a good idea to have copyright in the Exif file agreeing with the attribution in the caption of the image. Cheers Ant..
Is that what's this about? Copyrights? Respecting other's or protecting yours?
Best to test yourself to see if the meta/exif data you add to a given image is present in the final .ibooks file, I think.
As well, if it's your assets you're trying to protect, you may want to consider watermarking instead of something that can be stripped easily, etc.
Protection is for the party that holds the copyright. Some of the images are mine and some I have been given written permission by the copyright holder to publish commercially in the iTunes Bookstore.
I have performed a due diligence process which included checking that the Exif file to establish if they could claim to entitlement this included 'Camera ID, creation Date, Time, Place, Author, Copyright Xchecked with the event date time place etc.
The meta data in the Exif file will agree with the attribution in the caption. Ant..
I think authors are obligated to supply proof-of-rights to use on any material, should Apple ask.
See your agreement for details.
Again, did you sniff one of the tagged images after building into an .ibook file to see if that info survives?
Not sure how to sniff an image after it has been built into an .iBook sounds like something you should do. Ant..
I'm not the one with the question 🙂
I'd think you'd want to know if your work is not being wasted/stripped out during the process, but that's just me.
Good luck.
Created a PDF in iBooks opened the PDF in Adobe Readier copied the image to Paint saved as *.jpg, opened in Exif Pilot only image properties was the creation date. I'm not sure that proves that iBooks Author strips the image metadata. Ant..
An .ibooks file is just an archive/zip.
Make a test book you don't mind playing with, etc. that has a few sample images with your added EXIF data, then Share/Export to where you can locate in the Finder, then change the file name suffix from .ibooks to .zip - when done, double click to expand, then poke around in the expanded folders to locate your images....check them to see if your added meta data is still there.
did all of that but when I double click on the [renamed file] *.zip it just creates another zip file.Ant..
Right click on the .zip file and choose to 'Open With ▶', then pick whatever utiltiy works from there to decompress/unpack/unzip/unarchive.
Open with Archive.Utility.app simply produces another file called *.zip.cpgz Ant..
Feel free to use whatever you usually use to unpack a zip file.
Archive.utility.app will unpack other zip files but not this one. Ant..
ps I have winzip running in windows I will transfer the file across and see if it will unzip in that environment
What was the suffix? .iba or .ibooks?
Publishing with Images
