Re: EOG features

From: Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>
To: Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>
Cc: GNOME Desktop Devel List <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: EOG features
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:36:04 +0000

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 00:38 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> I agree to your points, but: why the prompt? Why not simply auto-save
> without prompting? In the case of an erroneous rotation, it is quickly
> undone and no data has been lost.

Because rotating JPEG images looses data, either via the
decompress/compress cycle, with a lossless transform the final row of
blocks often has to be discarded.

Do this to my digital camera photos and you will suffer. :)

Ross
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