Re: Cannot edit photos

[Larry Ewing <lewing novell com>]

Can you add the distribution and the version of libexif you are using
and if possible attach a photo that has this problem to the bug you
mentioned.

--Larry

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 20:36 -0800, Alex Vollmer wrote:
> Whenever I try to crop or edit a photo in any way I get a dialog error
> message that says:
> 
>         Received exception "Argument cannot be null. Parameter name:
>         src". Unable to save photo DSC0051.JPG
> 
> Following the command-line output I see this the moment I dismiss the
> dialog aformentioned dialog box:
> 
>         Found Standard Tiff Marker 42
>         new Tiff.Header timer stopped: 00:00:00.0003100
>         Cannot convert type "ComponentsConfiguration" to string
>         exif:ComponentsConfiguration has no values; skipping
>         Tiff.Header.Select timer stopped: 00:00:00.0078510
>         building info timer stopped: 00:00:00.0111830
> 
> When I run the 'exif' command-line tool on this photo it returns 'Y Cb
> Cr -' as the value for the ConfigurationComponents field of the
> photo. 
> 
> I posted this question a couple of months ago and someone suggested it
> might be a problem with libexif. However, oher photo apps like gthumb
> and digikam (also running with exif I believe) don't have any problems
> like this. It also looks like someone has posted a bug on this
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315029) but it is still in
> the 'unconfirmed' state.
> 
> I don't know if running 64-bit Linux is a problem or not. I love this
> app, especially the tagging and flickr support! Any insight or help
> someone has would be awesome.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Alex 
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