Re: eog does not prserve EXIF when saving

[Vladimir Kotal <vlada devnull cz>]

On 27.6.2005, at 8:52, Jens Finke wrote:

> Hallo Valdimir,
>
> for such questions there is an eog mailing list: eog-list gnome org
>
> Vladimir Kotal schrieb:
> > I use EOG pretty frequently and it is wonderfull (yet simple) tool 
> > but which annoys me is that it does not preserve EXIF part of JPEG 
> > files when doing rotation and than saving (at least in Fedora Core 4 
> > running Gnome). Do you plan to implement this in future versions ?
>
> I don't know what eog configuration/version FC 4 ships. So eog does 
> preserve EXIF information (I use it myself pretty frequently) if you 
> compile it with EXIF support. To enable this you must have libexif 
> installed when compiling eog.

I should be replying to my own post here, but I have not Cc'ed myself..

I think I have found the cause - if the directory in which pictures are 
rotated+saved contains spaces, the EXIF tags of these pictures are not 
preserved. I have verified this on couple of directories.


v.