Mi aplicación debería poder escribir entradas de metadatos personalizados en imágenes PNG para exportarlas al UIPasteboard.

Al juntar varias publicaciones sobre el tema, he podido encontrar la fuente que se ofrece a continuación como fuente.

Al activar el método copyPressed con un botón, puedo configurar metadatos personalizados con imágenes JPG (EXIF):

Image[6101:907] found jpg exif dictionary
Image[6101:907] checking image metadata on clipboard
Image[6101:907] {
    ColorModel = RGB;
    Depth = 8;
    Orientation = 1;
    PixelHeight = 224;
    PixelWidth = 240;
    "{Exif}" =     {
        ColorSpace = 1;
        PixelXDimension = 240;
        PixelYDimension = 224;
        UserComment = "Here is a comment";
    };
    "{JFIF}" =     {
        DensityUnit = 0;
        JFIFVersion =         (
            1,
            1
        );
        XDensity = 1;
        YDensity = 1;
    };
    "{TIFF}" =     {
        Orientation = 1;
    };
}

Aunque puedo leer bien los metadatos PNG, parece que no puedo escribirle:

Image[6116:907] found png property dictionary
Image[6116:907] checking image metadata on clipboard
Image[6116:907] {
    ColorModel = RGB;
    Depth = 8;
    PixelHeight = 224;
    PixelWidth = 240;
    "{PNG}" =     {
        InterlaceType = 0;
    };
}

Sin embargo, nada en la documentación sugiere que esto debería fallar y la presencia de muchosConstantes de metadatos específicas de PNG sugiere que debería tener éxito.

Mi aplicación debe usar PNG para evitarCompresión con pérdida de JPG.

¿Por qué no puedo configurar metadatos personalizados en una imagen PNG en memoria en iOS?

Nota: he vistoesta pregunta tan, pero no aborda el problema aquí, que es cómo escribir metadatos para imágenes PNG específicamente.

IMViewController.m

#import "IMViewController.h"
#import <ImageIO/ImageIO.h>

@interface IMViewController ()

@end

@implementation IMViewController

- (IBAction)copyPressed:(id)sender
{
//    [self copyJPG];
    [self copyPNG];
}

-(void)copyPNG
{
    NSData *pngData = UIImagePNGRepresentation([UIImage imageNamed:@"wow.png"]);
    CGImageSourceRef source = CGImageSourceCreateWithData((__bridge CFDataRef)pngData, NULL);
    NSDictionary *metadata = (__bridge NSDictionary *) CGImageSourceCopyPropertiesAtIndex(source, 0, NULL);
    NSMutableDictionary *mutableMetadata = [metadata mutableCopy];
    NSMutableDictionary *dict = [[mutableMetadata objectForKey:(NSString *) kCGImagePropertyPNGDictionary] mutableCopy];

    if (dict) {
        NSLog(@"found png property dictionary");
    } else {
        NSLog(@"creating png property dictionary");
        dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
    }

    // set values on the root dictionary
    [mutableMetadata setObject:@"Name of Software" forKey:(NSString *)kCGImagePropertyPNGDescription];
    [mutableMetadata setObject:dict forKey:(NSString *)kCGImagePropertyPNGDictionary];

    // set values on the internal dictionary
    [dict setObject:@"works" forKey:(NSString *)kCGImagePropertyPNGDescription];

    CFStringRef UTI = CGImageSourceGetType(source);
    NSMutableData *data = [NSMutableData data];
    CGImageDestinationRef destination = CGImageDestinationCreateWithData((__bridge CFMutableDataRef) data, UTI, 1, NULL);

    if (!destination) {
        NSLog(@">>> Could not create image destination <<<");

        return;
    }

    CGImageDestinationAddImageFromSource(destination, source, 0, (__bridge CFDictionaryRef) mutableMetadata);

    BOOL success = CGImageDestinationFinalize(destination);

    if (!success) {
        NSLog(@">>> Error Writing Data <<<");
    }

    UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];

    [pasteboard setData:data forPasteboardType:@"public.png"];
    [self showPNGMetadata];
}

-(void)copyJPG
{
    NSData *jpgData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation([UIImage imageNamed:@"wow.jpg"], 1);
    CGImageSourceRef source = CGImageSourceCreateWithData((__bridge CFDataRef) jpgData, NULL);
    NSDictionary *metadata = (__bridge NSDictionary *) CGImageSourceCopyPropertiesAtIndex(source, 0, NULL);
    NSMutableDictionary *mutableMetadata = [metadata mutableCopy];
    NSMutableDictionary *exif = [[mutableMetadata objectForKey:(NSString *)kCGImagePropertyExifDictionary] mutableCopy];

    if (exif) {
        NSLog(@"found jpg exif dictionary");
    } else {
        NSLog(@"creating jpg exif dictionary");
    }

    // set values on the exif dictionary
    [exif setObject:@"Here is a comment" forKey:(NSString *)kCGImagePropertyExifUserComment];
    [mutableMetadata setObject:exif forKey:(NSString *)kCGImagePropertyExifDictionary];

    CFStringRef UTI = CGImageSourceGetType(source);
    NSMutableData *data = [NSMutableData data];
    CGImageDestinationRef destination = CGImageDestinationCreateWithData((__bridge CFMutableDataRef) data, UTI, 1, NULL);

    if(!destination) {
        NSLog(@">>> Could not create image destination <<<");

        return;
    }

    CGImageDestinationAddImageFromSource(destination,source, 0, (__bridge CFDictionaryRef) mutableMetadata);

    BOOL success = CGImageDestinationFinalize(destination);

    if (!success) {
        NSLog(@">>> Could not create data from image destination <<<");
    }

    UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];

    [pasteboard setData:data forPasteboardType:@"public.jpeg"];
    [self showJPGMetadata];
}

-(void)showJPGMetadata
{
    NSLog(@"checking image metadata on clipboard");

    UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
    NSData *data = [pasteboard dataForPasteboardType:@"public.jpeg"];

    CGImageSourceRef source = CGImageSourceCreateWithData((__bridge CFDataRef)data, NULL);
    NSDictionary *metadata = (__bridge NSDictionary *) CGImageSourceCopyPropertiesAtIndex(source,0,NULL);

    NSLog(@"%@", metadata);
}

-(void)showPNGMetadata
{
    NSLog(@"checking image metadata on clipboard");

    UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
    NSData *data = [pasteboard dataForPasteboardType:@"public.png"];

    CGImageSourceRef source = CGImageSourceCreateWithData((__bridge CFDataRef)data, NULL);
    NSDictionary *metadata = (__bridge NSDictionary *) CGImageSourceCopyPropertiesAtIndex(source,0,NULL);

    NSLog(@"%@", metadata);
}

@end