I have a large number of png files imported into Shotwell and tagged, with the metadata being written to the files. The png files are typically 10MB and I find that if I convert them to jpg the size reduces to around 1.5MB with no discernible reduction in quality. In retrospect I would of course have been better to convert before importing and tagging but it is too late for that now.
Following experimentation it appears that if I convert each file to jpg in the Shotwell pictures directories (using imagemagick, which appears to retain the metadata) then when I start Shotwell (with Watch for New Files set) then it automatically imports the jpg files and correctly picks up the tags from the metadata in the image. If I then delete the original images I guess they should be moved to Missing Files from where I can remove them from the library. Can anyone see any problems with this? Perhaps there is a better way. Colin _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
