Re: lossless rotation in konqueror
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:29:26AM -0500, H.S. wrote:
> Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:05:53 -0500
> > "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> When I rotate an image in Konqueror, is the rotation lossless?
> >>
> >> I have a few gigs of photos which I cannot import as an album into my
> >> digikam (not enough space in /home). So I am trying to see if I can
> >> rotate the images in konqueror -- the images resize on a different
> >> partition at present.
> >>
> >> ->HS
> >
> > I use gthumb, and it claims that 90-degree rotation of jpegs is
> > lossless. Since gthumb, digikam and konqueror all depend on libjpeg62,
> > "a library for handling JPEG files", I assume they all rotate them
> > lossless.
> >
>
> Anyway to confirm it?
Maybe repeat the rotation back to the original orientation and diff the
files?
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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu
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