[Digikam-users] Re: DK issues, bang head here

[Remco Viëtor]

on Friday 04 February 2011, Paul Verizzo wrote: 
> There's a lot I love about digiKam, but it's getting to be like a date 
> in high school.  Lots of promises........
> 
> I've asked the questionhere about using the CIMG resizer, no useful 
> response.  Let me try again.
> 
> I can select an image, set a new size, click on the CIMG box, hit Try.  
> In the lower left corner, a percentage number scrolls upward for ten 
> seconds or so.  If I do a Save As, all I get is an 81 bit placeholder 
> file with the new name.  And no option to save as a type, JPEG, PNG, 
> whatever. If I do an OK, it asks me if I want to save the file.  I do.  
> Same results.   What am I doing wrong?????  Is it me?  DigiKam?  Or a 
> failure of the Windows (1.7) compilation?

I, personally, tried to explain twice why it didn't work the way you expected, 
second time: no response. If I'm not clear enough, say so, don't claim you 
didn't get answers.

> 2.  I get frequent "JPEG Library Error" messages.  "Not a JPEG file. 
> Starts with xxxxxx"   It happens after the above and at many other 
> times, even as I just open and close images.  Since it usually appears 
> while under open windows I haven't been able to define what makes it 
> happen.  Sometimes the message appears when I'm not even touching DK, 
> it's just running in the background and I'm doing other things. 

That could be an error from the jpeg library under windows. Gilles Caulier 
told you as much...

> 
> 3.  If I select a file and open Metadata & Tags on the right, I can't 
> type any information into the fields with the exception of Caption.  The 
> handbook implies I can type into the fields, I can't get a cursor to 
> place in any field except Captions.  I can use the menu to write 
> metadata, but that's sort of indirect and clunkier.

There is no tab on the right 'metadata & tags'... For metadata there is a 
possiblity to edit them (menu: Image -> metadata, and then select the option 
you want). the Caption/Tags tab allows you to ,emm, set the caption and tags 
you want (oh yes, and the rating)

> 
> 4.  Lack of thumbnail due to 48 bit image or, apparently, large file 
> size.  If I scan at 48 bit, I get a balloon.  Last night I scanned a neg 
> into PNG resulting in a file of about 23mb.  Balloon.

PNG is lossless, and could be uncompressed, and then the files will be big 
(10Mpixels will give you an 80MB+ file if uncompressed). Still, Tiff tends to 
be worse. Not something Digikam can do a lot about

> 
> Maybe I'll just have to forego using some of the features and stick to 
> what works, and a lot works well!  I really, really want that CIMG 
> thingy to work as a lot of great shots were done way back when 2mp was 
> as good as it got. 
> 
> If anything in my list needs to be reported as a bug, let me know.
> 
> I VERY appreciate all of the work that goes into this project!  Maybe 
> I'll just have to learn to live with the shortcomings until version 3 or 
> something! 
> >  

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