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Hi Jean-François
<br>
I very much agree with your remarks on the subject of images
metadata.<br>
It is a crime against humanity that no one wants to adhere to or
agree on, a limited set of standards for this metadata.<br>
I blame the government for this, any and all government. They dont
care about images and associated copyright in the same way as for
text.<br>
John Bestevaar<br>
<br>
On 31/10/11 20:52, Jean-François Rabasse wrote:
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, sleepless wrote:
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From: sleepless <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sleeplessregulus@hetnet.nl"><sleeplessregulus@hetnet.nl></a>
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Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] after using gimp dk can´t open
image.
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<blockquote type="cite">Your observation and explanation is as
always detailed, precise and right.
<br>
As a work around I save my Gimp image as PNG, just good to know
that it is
<br>
not a private problem.
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Yes but, you loose all your photographic metadata, don't you ?
<br>
<br>
An alternative could be to :
<br>
- keep your original file, let's say ORG.jpg
<br>
- edit with Gimp and save your work in a new file, NEW.jpg
<br>
- restore all your original Exif data with a command line tool,
e.g.
<br>
<br>
exiftool -all= -tagsFromFile ORG.jpg -exif:all NEW.jpg
<br>
<br>
and you're done, and DK should accept your NEW.jpg file because it
has
<br>
a full valid Exif section.
<br>
<br>
(Probably the same could be done with command line evix2 but I
don't know
<br>
the invocation syntax, exiv2 users could help.)
<br>
<br>
Of course, the problem isn't your private problem, it's the
everyday
<br>
nightmare of all people that handle non strictly photographic
images,
<br>
as scanned artwork files or other...
<br>
"Sell all pencils and paper on eBay and buy a digital camera, or
die !" :-)
<br>
<br>
The problem comes from the way metadata standards are defined.
Data formats
<br>
are described in a very accurate way, data semantics are ... hum
... a bit
<br>
less accurate, or a bit more impressionist, and data organisation
is always a desert.
<br>
So, images application software do what they wish or believe is
right, and each softare believes in its own way.
<br>
When you start to mix, you loose or destroy things !
<br>
<br>
Jean-François
<br>
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