Hi all,
Dunno if anyone has had this problem, but I
thought I would share it.
Occasionally, I have trouble opening some photos
in GIMP. UF-RAW runs crazy (I check this in a
terminal I have running the command top) and GIMP
stalls.
I was thinking about this today and read something
about other photo editors having problems because
of corrupted EXIF information in digital photos.
For info on EXIF see: Exchangeable image file format
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif
So...checking in my friendly browser I find that
imagemagick (free, in Linux :)) can strip exif
using the following command:
mogrify -strip <name-of-file>
or you can strip it from all images using
mogrify -strip *.<enter-file-type>
'naturally you have to make sure you're in the
same directory as the images or send the command
to the right place :)))
I wouldn't recommend this as a standard thing to
do to all your photos. Exif info is useful.
However, if you come across the problem I
occasionally have, this might help. It seem to
work fine for me :)
Regards,
Patrick
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