gthumb/jpegtran: jpeg rotation looses metadata (fc5)

wwp subscript at free.fr
Tue Jul 10 21:42:33 UTC 2007


On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:24:36 +0000 wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> 
> I've recently noticed that when rotating .jpg files from within gthumb,
> EXIF metadata gets lost, whereas rotation is conservative WRT such
> metadata some times ago.
> 
> I'm running an up-to-date FC5, gthumb-2.7.7-1, libjpeg-6b-36.2.1 and
> libexif-0.6.12-5. IIRC this version of gthumb relies on jpegtran from
> libjpeg for lossless rotation, and actually, jpegtran *does* strip out
> EXIF data when rotating.
> 
> Am I missing something? Does anybody have a clue of what's wrong now?

And, replying to myself, `jpegtran -copy all` *does* keep Exif
metadata ;).

-- 
wwp
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