Your best bet for a lossless JPEG crop is to use ImageMagick or the JPEG utils rather than GIMP. IIRC, there has been talk about allowing GIMP to do the few lossless JPEG transforms that are possible, but I haven't seen patches or release notes to the effect. something like
jpegtran -perfect -crop 50x50+23+10 input.jpg output.jpg
Would do the trick
BTW, even the guys that designed the JPEG library say that 100 should never
be used (and it doesn't mean what everybody thinks it means either)
Jeff
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