Thomas,<br><br>digiKam use Exiv2 library to play with metadata. Witch version you use ?<br><br>Can you send me the touched and untouched images in private to test here ?<br><br>Gilles Caulier<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
2007/12/16, Thomas Lunde <<a href="mailto:tlunde@gmail.com">tlunde@gmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello -<br><br>Is it expected that adding a keyword should make the image's file size<br>smaller? Digikam seems to have done so here.<br><br>Does anyone know what (metadata?) would have been deleted from the<br>original file as this tag was added?
<br><br>I was surprised at this, so I tried it again and got the same result.<br>bottles-unchanged.jpg is a JPG image from a Panasonic DMC-FX12 digital<br>camera. Other than having its filename changed, no modifications have
<br>been done to it. I copied the file off of the camera by inserting the<br>card into the SD card reader in my laptop and using a file manager to<br>copy it to my hard drive.<br><br>bottles.jpg is a copy of this image which was made available to
<br>digikam. The only thing that I (intentionally) did was to add a tag<br>called "bottles" after having turned on the option (Settings -><br>Configure digikam -> Metadata -> IPTC Actions -> X save image tags as
<br>"Keywords" tag) to sync the tags back to the file.<br><br>Use of strings shows that bottles.jpg has the tag and<br>bottles-untouched.jpg does not. See also:<br><br>tlunde@noir:~/Desktop$ ls -asl bottles*<br>
2188 -rwx------ 1 tlunde tlunde 2236340 2007-12-15 16:03 bottles.jpg<br>2200 -rwx------ 1 tlunde tlunde 2247707 2007-12-15 16:03 bottles-untouched.jpg<br>tlunde@noir:~/Desktop$<br>[Ignore the timestamps; these have been moved back and forth to
<br>another file system via scp so the original timestamps are<br>unavailable.]<br><br><br>tlunde@noir:~/Desktop$ grep bottle bottles*<br>Binary file bottles.jpg matches<br>tlunde@noir:~/Desktop$<br><br><br>tlunde@noir:~$ dpkg -l |grep kam
<br>ii digikam 2:0.9.2-2ubuntu2<br> digital photo management application for KDE<br>ii digikam-doc 0.9.2~beta2-1ubuntu1<br> handbook for digikam and showfoto in several languages
<br>tlunde@noir:~$<br><br>If there are packages of 0.9.3 for ubuntu gusty, I'll be happy to try<br>those and see if the result is the same.<br><br>Thanks for any guidance.<br>Thomas<br>_______________________________________________
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