Re: [Gimp-developer] png save broken in gimp edge ppa - There was an invalid UTF-8 string in the exif:ImageDescription

[Thorsten Stettin <thorsten stettin gmail com>]

Am 23.05.2016 um 23:59 schrieb Jehan Pagès:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Thorsten Stettin
> <thorsten stettin gmail com> wrote:
> > Am 23.05.2016 um 23:07 schrieb C R:
> > > Yes, if "save comment" is unchecked it saves fine.
> > > I never touch the comment, so it's strange that there would be something
> > > invalid in it.
> > >
> > > Thanks for looking into this.
> > > Maybe we should create a bug report?
> >
> > You have precedence. You know, I'm just a packager. :-P
> >
> > In German: Bitte nach Ihnen.
> >
> > But seriously: From where you got this picture? Please explain the entire
> > workflow from your camera.
> >
> > IMHO information like this is very important in order to handle issues like
> > that:
> Well from my point of view, it does not matter where the broken
> metadata comes from, as long as it is not generated by GIMP (in which
> case, yes it matters a lot! GIMP should not be able to create files
> with broken metadata). Of course, if that's another Free Software
> which created the metadata, it would be cool to report a bug there,
> but that's still not an issue in GIMP.
>
> The only issue I see in GIMP here is that broken metadata should not
> be an export-stopper since it's a data bug which is easily catchable
> and bypassed (by removing the wrong metadata).
>
> Jehan
Au contraire mon capitan!

To cut a long story short:

It's very important to know from where comes Gimp's lag regarding non 
corfirming data regardless they come from.


Cheers!


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