Version: 0.9.2-beta3 (using KDE 3.5.6, Kubuntu (feisty) 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14) Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.20-16-generic When batch converting images from Jpeg (original from camera) to PNG with "Tools->Batch process->Convert Images" metadata isn't transferred to the PNG (thus lost completely). Recently I was informed that with current digikam I should prefer PNG to Tiff in order to conserve metadata, so I expected this to work properly.
This tool is a kipi-plugins with use ImageMagick 'convert' command line tool Gilles
Witch kipi-plugins you use ? Witch ImageMagick version you have installed ? Gilles Caulier
To try to reproduce the problem, you can use this command line on a console : #convert foo.jpg foo.png And after with digiKam, take a look if metadata are available in foo.png Note : try too : #convert foo.png foo2.jpg ... normally you will see the same metadata between foo.jpg and foo2.jpg Gilles
Sorry, I can't reproduce this any longer. Metadata is transferred now. Only thing that happened meanwhile is that I've opened and saved each image in the editor (adjusting white balance). Maybe this problem only appears with images fresh from the camera? I'm going to check that later.
It's strange, but true. Batch converting looses metadata with images fresh from the camera. Opening and saving an image with the editor before converting makes a difference. Same happens with ImagaMagicks convert, so it's obviously an ImageMagick issue. Can someone give me a hint where I should report this.
Martin make a file report in ImageMagick bugzilla. Nothing can be done here. Gilles Caulier