Image::...ol::ZIP(3)
π NAME π
Image::ExifTool::ZIP β bestie, this one reads ZIP archive meta information. That's the whole vibe. π
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
Okay so real talk: you don't run this one directly. It's a helper module, and it gets used by Image::ExifTool. That's it, that's the synopsis. π«Ά
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
So Image::ExifTool::ZIP is lowkey the backstage crew of ExifTool β it holds all the definitions that Image::ExifTool needs to pull meta information out of ZIP, GZIP and RAR archives. π
And not just plain old zips, no no. It also handles all the ZIP-based file types that are secretly archives wearing a little outfit, which includes:
- Office Open XML β
DOCX,PPTXandXLSXπ - Open Document β
ODB,ODC,ODF,ODG,ODI,ODP,ODSandODTπΈ - iWork β
KEY,PAGES,NUMBERSπ - Capture One Enhanced Image Package β
EIPπΈ - Adobe InDesign Markup Language β
IDMLπ¨ - Electronic Publication β
EPUBπ - Sketch design files β
SKETCHπ§
It's giving "I contain multitudes." Periodt. π
π AUTHOR π
Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) π
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Slay, honestly. π
π₯ REFERENCES π₯
Go read the lore, bestie, no cap:
- <http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT>
- <http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc-gzip.html>
- <http://DataCompression.info/ArchiveFormats/RAR202.txt>
- <https://www.rarlab.com/technote.htm>
π SEE ALSO π
- "ZIP Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames β the actual tag list, iykyk
- "OOXML Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames β for all your Office-y archive needs
- Image::ExifTool(3pm) β the main character, obviously π
Not me ending every single one of these with a sign-off, but fr fr this page came from User Contributed Perl Documentation, running on perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and it's literally called Image::...ol::ZIP(3) because even the header got truncated. Iconic. Byeee π¦β¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- fedora 43: perl-Image-ExifTool 13.50-1.fc43 Β· GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl
- fedora 44: perl-Image-ExifTool 13.50-1.fc44 Β· GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms