GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 315638
"Save EXIF data" feature doesn't work
Last modified: 2008-01-15 13:00:10 UTC
Distribution/Version: Trustix 3.0 1) Open a jpg file with EXIF information 2) Save this file in some other place and check the "Save EXIF data" checkbox. 3) Look at the saved file with a EXIF viewer (EXIF-O-Matic in my case http://www.instituteofthefuture.org/exifomatic). The saved file should contain the same exif information as the original, but it has no EXIF information at all. I have a freshly compiled GIMP 2.2.8, libexif-0.6.12-2ta and libexif-devel-0.6.12-2ta packages installed. Gimp was compiled with the --with-exif flag. Previously I was using Gimp 2.0 and the EXIF data was saved correctly, Gimp 2.3.3 doesn't have this problem either (But the devel version has some other flaws).
That's probably just a duplicate of bug #303383.
I tried the workaround step by step instructions from bug #303383, with no success, GIMP still doesn't save the EXIF data. When the "Show Previw image in window" checkbox is ON and I check and uncheck the "Save EXIF data" checkbox the filesize doesn't change.
I tested the patch provided in bug #303383 on the current stable version 2.2.8 with no results, the EXIF data won't save.
Please test the new patch in bug #303383 or use the CVS version where this patch has already been applied. We are not able to reproduce your problem, so your feedback is needed here.
No the new patch doesn't change anything, the EXIF data isn't saved. I'll try 2.2.10, maybe it's resolved there...
I was seeing this too (no exif saved, see related bug 303383) on HEAD builds: it turned out that I was missing libexif-dev, and configure wasn't warning me about it (except buried in the hundreds of lines of output). After installing libexif-dev, gimp builds with exif support and it works. I know the reporter says he has the -dev package, but maybe gimp is not finding it for some reason. It turns out that a useful test after running configure is: grep -i "will not" config.log which will list (at least some of) the features configure didn't find.
Rudolfs, please provide feedback regarding comment #6.
I compiled the exif library from source and installed it under /usr/local/opt/libexif and then made symlinks from there to /usr/local and ran ldconfig Last time tried with libexif-0.6.12 and gimp-2.3.3 /usr/src/gimp-2.3.3# grep -i "will not" config.log configure:32551: WARNING: *** AA plug-in will not be built (AA library not found) *** configure:32846: WARNING: *** Help browser plug-in will not be built (GtkHtml2 not found) ***
Yesterday, Akkana and me tried many variations of this in order to solve here exif problems in CVS head. Saving EXIF works for both of us in gimp-2-2, and I couldn't get it to not save EXIF if I didn't disable "Save EXIF" in the plug-in dialog.
You have reported another problem releated to EXIF stuff - bug 315968. Please reply to my comment there.
I'm still convinced that this is something special to your platform. In current CVS (and 2.3.7, iirc), Akkana has added a nice summary of the stuff that will be built. Try to build a recent version and report back if anything indicates that your GIMP is built without EXIF support. Otherwise you might have to check for subtle libexif brokeneness on your system...
Rudolfs, anything new? AFAIK no one else was affected by this problem, so we might have to close it as INCOMPLETE (or OBSOLETE, if you can't reproduce it anymore).
haven't tried anything new, close it as incomplete...