210914 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:07:42 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> So I can avoid the problem either by cropping only with Fotoxx >> or by renaming them whenever I do it with Gwenview >> or by converting PNGs to JPGs before cropping them. > The latter will result in loss of information.
Ok if the info is irrelevant or otiose. >> The bad case does look like a Gwenview bug, >> but KDE bugs tend to disappear into the ocean, if reported. > It sounds like the images are fine, just that Gwenview is displaying > with the wrong colour information. The question then becomes > does Gwenview save the colour information in the image file or separately. > If you do have another user set up, > you could try cropping and saving as one user and viewing as the other. > If the second user sees the image as it should be, > it is the latter and you can locate and remove that information. That's all very complex & far more work than I care to spend time on. I believe I've found a solution as above. > It does seems to be a bug, and one that has been around for some years: > https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=139430 Yet another eg of KDE's cavalier approach to bugs. Thanks for the insights. > And then Adam said, "What's a headache ? " He should have said : "What's an apple ? " -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
