[Digikam-users] KiPi batch conversion

[Gilles Caulier]

Your problem come from ImageMagick, not digiKam/kipi. IM running in a
separated process and error lines come from the internal console.

Check your IM...

Gilles Caulier

2008/9/13 Dick Angus <RJA-Linux at shaw.ca>

> I originally saved all my photos as .tif. I have them all in albums with
> tags
> and comments. As only .jpeg is now supported for IPTC and EXIF all that
> data
> is saved only in the Digikam database. After doing a lot of reading I've
> realized that .png is probably the best format for me. If I convert outside
> of Digikam I drop all the tags and comments. I am trying to use the
> Batch->Image Convert feature so that I can keep the tags and comments.
> Every
> time I try this - the format is selected as .png, the compression tried at
> different levels from 50% to 100%, and the number of pictures to convert
> varying from 1 to all - I get this message:
>
> :The 'convert' program from 'ImageMagick' has been stopped abnormally.
>
> I am running the current version of Kubuntu, fully up to date, with
> ImageMagick installed. I use ImageMagick for other things and it has always
> worked well for me.
>
> The message.log shows: Sep 13 10:30:22 me-desktop kernel: [  612.472915]
> convert[6140]: segfault at 110d0730 eip 110d0730 esp bf8a55ac error 4
>
> Has anyone else seen this or can you suggest a solution? TIA
> --
> An old mainframer getting modern
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