Re: image editor

2009-10-08 Thread Paul de Weerd
For lossless rotation, add jhead (pkg available) to the mix. `jhead -autorot *.[Jj][Pp]{,[Ee]}[Gg]` reads the orientation tag and rotates your images (lossless) if required. I have a scipt that automates grabbing the pictures from CF/SD and rotating them using a similar command before storing them

Re: image editor

2009-10-08 Thread Rene Maroufi
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:48:32AM +1300, Paul M wrote: All editors that I've seen will re-encode a jpeg whenever any change is made. Whenever that happens, you'll lose information. (Actually, lossless jpeg encoding is possible but I've never seen a publicly available app or library that

Re: image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Frank Bax f...@sympatico.ca wrote: I'm looking for basic image editor: crop, resize, lossless jpg rotation. Something minimalistic would be nice, so GIMP is out. This will force KDE libs on your system, but KolourPaint is actually really really good. I'm not

Re: image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Todd Alan Smith
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Frank Bax f...@sympatico.ca wrote: I'm looking for basic image editor: crop, resize, lossless jpg rotation. Something minimalistic would be nice, so GIMP is out. I like ImageMagick for such tasks. Command line fits your minimalistic requirement. It's in

Re: image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Paul M
As far as I'm aware, you wont get lossless jpeg rotation. There does appear to be an orientation tag of some sort in the jpeg header, so rewriting that could cause a jpeg to be displayed with a different orientation. I'm not aware of any software that will do this however. All editors that I've

Re: image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Paul M
I should have checked first - Google tells me there are quite a few lossless jpeg rotators. A quick ckeck showed qite a few hits for windows apps, 'lossless jpeg open source' turned up lots of hits too, perhaps there's something there ... sorry for the noise. paulm On 8/10/2009, at 10:38 AM,

Re: image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/10/8 Paul M l...@no-tek.com: As far as I'm aware, you wont get lossless jpeg rotation. NACK, http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/jpegtran/ Best Martin

Re: image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 8 October 2009 c. 02:48:32 Paul M wrote: As far as I'm aware, you wont get lossless jpeg rotation. There does appear to be an orientation tag of some sort in the jpeg header, so rewriting that could cause a jpeg to be displayed with a different orientation. I'm not aware of any software