From: Karl Günter Wünsch <kgw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >EXIF in an edited image has little resemblance with the original anyway, so I >would suggest stripping that except for the IPTC tags. I would also be happy >if the IPTC tags were settable in the GIMP, instead of having to resort to >other programs. No! EXIF in an edited image is still highly relevant, but it should not merely be copied from the original, as GIMP used to do. The EXIF specification gives precise instructions about how the EXIF data should be altered when an image is edited and saved, and to the best of my knowledge -- I just looked at the code again -- GIMP now follows the specification pretty closely, and has done so for almost three years. The file "exif-handling.txt" in devel-docs summarizes my understanding of what the specification requires us to do. You can look at the function jpeg_setup_exif_for_save() in plug-ins/jpeg/jpeg-exif.c to see what GIMP currently does to the EXIF. As an example, the specification says that the orientation should *always* be set to "top-left" when an image is saved after editing, regardless of what it was when loaded. People may argue about whether that is always the best thing to do, but it is what the specification requires, so it is what GIMP does. To the best of my knowledge, it does this regardless of what decision the user makes about rotating when loading. -- Bill ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ Sent via the CNPRC Email system at primate.ucdavis.edu _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer