[Digikam-users] Why does adding a keyword make the file size smaller?

Thomas Lunde tlunde at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 16:01:10 GMT 2008


On Jan 5, 2008 9:53 AM, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de> wrote:
> You might try to investigate yourself a bit:
> E.g. you could try to compare the meta-data information
> before and after using exiv2 and/or exiftool.
> Maybe one can extract the mere image and check if this
> stays unchanged (it should!).
> You could also try to manually simulate what digikam
> does by adding the corresponding field using exiv2.
> As digikam uses exiv2 in the end to read/write metadata,
> it might be possible to track it down in this direction.



Oops.  My was meant to be personal to Gilles and not to the list as a
whole.  Sorry.

In any case, thanks for the suggestions on how to investigate this
further.  If I still can't figure it out, I'll reply back.

Thomas



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