This is getting stranger... I'm away from home right now, since last night, & using GIMP 2.10 on my laptop - Win 10, once again. I can't reproduce the problem on this machine. I thought it might be to do with the fact that the original tiff files I was playing with on my desktop at home were Black & White, but I just tried with B/W (and colour) tiffs from the same photo scanner here on my laptop: all seems ok.
I'll have another look on my desktop machine when I get home next week. >Thanks for the reply. > >I start off with .tif files which have EXIF (and other) metadata >within them - as added by my photo scanner, photo library software >(Synology's Photo Station) and/or from ExifTool - Original & create >dates; User note; copyright, GPS, various tags. These are all present >and displayed in ExifToolGUI. As soon as I open the .tif file in GIMP >2.10 and go... Image -> Metadata -> View Metadata, nothing is shown. >When I then export the modified image as a .tif and check it with >ExifToolGUI, all the metadata has been stripped out. > >If I try this starting with a similar .jpg file, the metadata is >displayed correctly in GIMP. Exporting an orginal .jpg as a .jpg >preserves the EXIF metadata correctly, as does exporting it as a TIFF. > >I do have the settings to export all the metadata types in Edit -> >Preferences -> Image Import & Export, but it looks to me like the >metadata is being stripped out on opening the TIFF file in GIMP and >not during the export. > >However - taking this a step further - If I start with a ,jpg that >contains metadata; open it in GIMP; export it as a .tif, close & >re-start GIMP (not sure if this bit is relevant); open the .tif file I >just created from the original .jpg, then the metadata is preserved. > >I'm wondering of there's some strange formatting of my original .tif >files that GIMP is struggling with? -- MartinFa (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
