Meu aplicativo deve ser capaz de gravar entradas de metadados personalizados em imagens PNG para exportar para o UIPasteboard.

Ao reunir vários posts sobre o assunto, consegui criar a classe abaixo como fonte.

Acionando o método copyPressed com um botão, posso definir metadados personalizados com imagens 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;
    };
}

Embora eu possa ler os metadados PNG, não consigo escrever:

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;
    };
}

No entanto, nada na documentação sugere que isso deva falhar ea presença de muitosConstantes de metadados específicos do PNG sugere que deve ter sucesso.

Meu aplicativo deve usar o PNG para evitarCompactação com perdas do JPG.

Por que não posso definir metadados personalizados em uma imagem PNG na memória no iOS?

Nota: eu viesta questão tão, mas não resolve o problema aqui, que é como escrever metadados para imagens PNG especificamente.

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