[wellylug] New article on wellylug.org.nz

Martin Bähr mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Dec 13 13:30:52 NZDT 2004


On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:54:33PM +1300, jumbophut wrote:
> a) the image gets resized anyway, which is not lossless.

you don't keep the original?

> b) my camera has no orientation info (I've seen ones that do)

you could still use it for explicit rotations

> c) exiftran is not in Debian stable
> I have used jpegtran to losslessly rotate images when I haven't been
> resizing, which works well but does lose the exif information. 

it's possible to work around that by using jhead or metacam which copy
exif information

greetings, martin.
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