What's up with added EXIF data by gThumb ?
What's up with added EXIF data by gThumb ?
- Make a screen shot of your desktop
- Check with a viewer and see no EXIF data
- Load it in gThumb to use its crop feature, crop and save
- Check again with a viewer and see that gThumb added EXIF data including the gThumb version
In the mean time I've started to use other software to crop screen shots but I am still puzzled why gThumb always adds EXIF data ?
I just used gThumb recently to try to post something I had inverted, but posting it to sopuli/lemmy scrubbs the exif data and it was posted as if I didn't do anything.
So, gThumb uses exif data to modify pictures which is likely what is added.
*What alternative are you using?
I just used gThumb recently to try to post something I had inverted, but posting it to sopuli/lemmy scrubbs the exif data and it was posted as if I didn’t do anything.
Yes, uploading to Mastodon and Lemmy will likely automatically wipe EXIF data by those sites.
So, gThumb uses exif data to modify pictures which is likely what is added.
*What alternative are you using?
For image cropping I've switched to Gwenview which I'm pleased with.
Thanks.
Go to Preferences>Extensions. there is an extension for EXIF support. turn it off and then try again and see if the same thing happens
Cool, that works. Thank you.
There's also a plugin that scrubs metadata. But you have to use it manually from the tool menu.
didnt know, thanks
My favorite general image viewer is nomacs.