Hi Gimp List!

Let me first give kudos to the developers of the new Gimp! I had been keeping up with it during the 1.3 process somewhat, but not being a regular user of Gimp, waited to see the final 2.0 release until my Linux distro released their new version which included it. You guys have been busy! Wonderful changes, outstanding work on an already great program! My sincere admiration for all your hard work. :o)

Now a question for you. A local user is trying to load up some camera pictures into Gimp, but Gimp doesn't seem to like all the pictures. Of 26 photos contained on her memory card, only eight will open and if she trys to resave them to her hard drive from Gimp, she gets this error: Saving '/home/helen/Family/EmilyChloe.jpg' failed: Plug-In could not save image

I think that is the same type of error when trying to load one that won't. Now my first thoughts are that she has not allocated enough memory in Gimp to load these 5+ megapixel photos, but the saving part confuses me. Looking at the pictures in a hexeditor shows them to be the standard jEXIF format and all of her viewers show the pictures. One thing I tried, was to open the "bad" image into ImageMagick, resize and save out as jpg. This too will not open for her or me and the file is considerably smaller.

Hints, tips, suggestions? I can supply the picture to anyone wanting to take a look.

Patrick

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:32 am, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

BandiPat writes:

Let me first give kudos to the developers of the new Gimp! I had been keeping up with it during the 1.3 process somewhat, but not being a regular user of Gimp, waited to see the final 2.0 release until my Linux distro released their new version which included it. You guys have been busy! Wonderful changes, outstanding work on an already great program! My sincere admiration for all your hard work. :o)

Now a question for you. A local user is trying to load up some camera pictures into Gimp, but Gimp doesn't seem to like all the pictures. Of 26 photos contained on her memory card, only eight will open and if she trys to resave them to her hard drive from Gimp, she gets this error: Saving
'/home/helen/Family/EmilyChloe.jpg' failed: Plug-In could not save image

Known (SuSE) problem:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142252

Sven _______________________________________________

Ok, so the problem seems to be with the library, libexif.so.9.1.2, which is provided by SuSE's file libexif-0.5.12-118. Is it that it's a bad file, compile or just bad library? Could recompiling from the src.rpm correct the problem or is a newer version needed?

Oh, no need to send two mails as I am on the list too. ;o)

Thanks Patrick

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 10:01 am, BandiPat wrote:

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 09:32 am, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

BandiPat writes:

[...]

Now a question for you. A local user is trying to load up some camera pictures into Gimp, but Gimp doesn't seem to like all the pictures. Of 26 photos contained on her memory card, only eight will open and if she trys to resave them to her hard drive from Gimp, she gets this error: Saving
'/home/helen/Family/EmilyChloe.jpg' failed: Plug-In could not save image

Known (SuSE) problem:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142252

Sven _______________________________________________

[...]

I'll pass this along to all here who run SuSE 9.1 and Sven, so that he might alert users as well. There is a fixed version of the libexif file for SuSE now. I was able to build a new one, but it required a bit more tweaking than I liked, so the nice SuSE guy that maintains these files alerted me he had posted a fixed version. Here is your site for the new file:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/meissner

Download the file from his libexif directory and install. All should be well with your camera files then.

Patrick