[Digikam-users] Exif information lost when resizing photo's?

[sjoerd]

On Saturday, November 03, 2012 03:04:54 PM Anders Lund wrote:
> On Lørdag den 3. november 2012 14:14:46 sjoerd wrote:
> > On Saturday, November 03, 2012 01:21:24 PM Anders Lund wrote:
> > > On Lørdag den 3. november 2012 13:09:11 sjoerd wrote:
> > > > When resizing several photos to place them on the web, i noticed that
> > > > all
> > > > the exif information is lost. Has anybody a solution for that?
> > > > I also would like that the resized photos would have the creation date
> > > > of
> > > > the original as timestamp.
> > > > 
> > > > I am using Digikam 2.9.0...
> > > 
> > > What did you do to resize them?
> > 
> > Simple:  selecting the pictures i want to resize and then via "Tools" ->
> > "resize images..."
> 
> That is using the imagemagick convert tool, it works fine for me, all the
> metadata is kept (visible if i open the image in gwenview for example).
> 
> An alternative is to use the batch que, which is using internal
> functinality. Also works for me.

Thanks for the hint in the direction of Imagemagick...converting from the 
commandline (convert -resize 800x600 file.jpg smallfile.jpg) gave the same 
result, so I looked into the installed imagemagick packages and found out that 
there was only a package "graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat" (kubuntu) 
installed and NOT the imagemagick itself. Still gave the convert tool though.
Anyway to make a long story short: after installing imagemagick it all works 
fine now.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Sjoerd