Re: Lossless jpeg cropping

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 13:20 +0200, Stephane Delcroix wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've worked on this during my honeymoon: adding lossless cropping for
> jpeg in f-spot.

I like your dedication :)  but perhaps not to healthy in the long run.
> 
> Get the patches from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339081
> 
> The first patch (libs and API) is ok and works well. The second one is
> only a way to show and test that new functionality.
> 
> I don't want to make a clear and neat UI binding before having some
> feedbacks on lossless jpeg cropping from the list:
> 
>  * Do you think it is useful ?
Definitely
>  * The X and Y offsets must be aligned with jpeg blocks (i.e. multiple
> of 8). The user should know whether the results of his cropping will be
> as requested. What about breaking aspect ratio constraints ?
As you stated, could be an extra cropping alternativ or two?

>  * The design of the "edit" UI sucks! (as documented in the code
> itself). And it need some improvements. Is there already someone doing
> it, or planning to do ?
Hope so :)