Re: CFD: eXIf 2017-05-31

Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Jun 2017 10:09:49 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <CA+PdXctFq2f=psid8ZDCN8rKJW5xp8MDkR2QZa0Q3sq2yUwYcw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Pavel Zlatovratskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> Within safe-to-copy eXIf it became real as eXIf (with preview) could be
> copied on crop by software which don't know anything about it.

It's already real regardless of PNG eXIf.  ImageMagick preserves the
original thumbnail in a JPEG->crop->JPEG operation (along with
all of the other copy-unsafe material).  I agree that that's a shortcoming
of ImageMagick, and am working to improve that, but it's a fact
of life all the same.

Glenn

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