Just tried applying a style with crop turned off during export and it
worked fine.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:34 AM Patrick Shanahan <p...@opensuse.org> wrote:

> * Mark Feit <mf...@notonthe.net> [12-12-18 09:36]:
> > On 12/11/18 10:07 PM, Terry Duell wrote:
> > >
> > > The requirement for uncropped images seriously complicates the task if
> > > using darktable-cli.
> > > The request is to have a 'crop=0' switch (or similar) for
> > > darktable-cli...if that is possible, and reasonable.
> >
> > That would start a trend of having to propagate a lot of switches out to
> > darktable-cli, which wouldn't end well.  Everything needed to bend
> darktable
> > to your will is already in the sidecar (XMP) file that goes with each
> > image.  What's missing is an alternate sidecar with the cropping turned
> off
> > that could be handed to darktable-cli.
> >
> > I did the following manually for a single image and it produced the right
> > thing:
> >
> > 1.  Make a copy of the image's sidecar file (cp image.nef.xmp
> > image.nef.xmp-nocrop).
> >
> > 2.  Edit the copy (vi image.nef.xmp-nocrop), locate all of the rdf:li
> items
> > where darktable:operation is "clipping" and change darktable:enabled to
> > "0".  This process can be automated with xsltproc or XMLStarlet.  The
> latter
> > is available on all three of the platforms where darktable is supported.
> > (You could probably get away with some sneaky sed-based tricks, but I
> don't
> > recommend that because the arrangement of the XML shouldn't be considered
> > stable.  Use the right tool for the job.)
> >
> > 3.  Run darktable-cli against the image and edited XMP to produce an
> > uncropped version of the image (darktable-cli image.nef
> image.nef.xmp-nocrop
> > image-uncropped.jpg).
> >
> > 4.  Harvest the uncropped image for distribution and remove it and the
> > edited sidecar if you don't want to keep them around.
> >
> >
> > Turning it into a shell script that can operate against any set of files
> you
> > choose should be an easy exercise.  (It's an interesting enough problem
> that
> > I might do it myself.)
>
> and I believe that was more or less the first suggestion given.
>
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