Jon Winters (winters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > The only manipulation I can think of that would benefit from "lossless" > jpeg would be rotating the image. (if I were shooting low-rez) I > remember seeing some tools at the JPEG F.A.Q. site that would rotate a > JPEG without damage. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/ This lossless operations depend heavily on knowledge about JPEG internals. They operate without de- and recompressing the image data. You can use them with tools like jpegtran . However, this is nothing to embed into Gimp. Gimp has a totally different approach on storing image data and it is virtually impossible to preserve the JPEG-internal data (parasites for all JPEG-Coefficients - Urgh... ;-) Bye, Simon -- Simon.Budig@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/
