Loss of JPEG resolution info

Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:47:42 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.announce
Message-ID <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304302043400.15166-100000__18984.4198328958$1051753818@scooby.simplesystems.org>
Today we discovered that ImageMagick (and GraphicsMagick) have
silently been loosing the resolution of JPEG files for at least two or
three years, or perhaps even as long as ImageMagick has supported
JPEG.  The resolution was always set to 72 DPI unless it was
overridden with -density.

The simple command

  convert in.jpg out.jpg

would loose the original resolution.  For example, if in.jpg was 300
DPI, out.jpg would be indicated to be 72 DPI.

Does anyone see any negative side-effects that might be caused by
fixing this problem?

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected]
http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen



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