On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:27:31PM +1030, David Fitch wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 08:55, John Clarke wrote: > > although I did manage to recover most of the 100 or so photos I lost, > > it wasn't easy. I now know far more about the Exif file format than I > > ever wanted to know > > yes it's a strange one. > I found out about it's existance when I couldn't work out why > I couldn't shrink my digital photo files to as small a file size > as I reckoned they should go (to load fast on a web page). > Basically my problem was the "in built" thumbnail image stored > inside the jpg file.
I wonder whether the image would still be viewable without the thumbnail. It's easy enough to identify the start and end of the thumbnail within the file, so removing it would be simple (you'd have to adjust the APP1 data size accordingly). Something to do when I get an appropriately shaped tuit ... Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
