| Summary: | When sending to application, new screenshots are sent in lossy formats if last screenshot was saved lossy | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] ksnapshot | Reporter: | JR <zorael> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Richard Moore <rich> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | zorael |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 0.8.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Image saved with intent to be png turned lossy as it was sent to GIMP as jpeg | ||
>replacing the contents with the lossy
>clipboard contents.
Replace lossy with lossless there, apologies.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 249820 *** |
Created attachment 65998 [details] Image saved with intent to be png turned lossy as it was sent to GIMP as jpeg Version: 0.8.2 (using KDE 4.7.3) OS: Linux Kubuntu 11.10, KDE 4.7.3 from Kubuntu PPAs. ksnapshot package version is 4:4.7.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1. Let's say I save a screenshot containing a photography picture as a jpeg, as I want to keep the file size low for web use. I directly save it to the disk as pretty-landscape.jpeg. Next I want to take a screenshot of a piece of text which would benefit from the lossness qualities of png. Saving it as jpeg would make the text fuzzy upon closer examination. However, this time I want to send it to GIMP for further editing, before I finalize it as cool-quote.png. What gets sent to GIMP is a temporary lossy jpeg named pretty-landscape1.jpeg, and information is lost. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use KSnapshot to take a screenshot with the intent of saving it as a jpeg 2. Save it as a jpeg! 3. Use KSnapshot to take a screenshot with the intent of sending it to an external application before finally saving it as a png Actual Results: 4. Temporary file sent to application is in a lossy format (jpeg) and all hopes of keeping the information lossless are foiled Expected Results: 4. Temporary file sent to application is sent in a lossless format I frankly don't know how to solve this in a neat way if you don't want to *assume* every application in the Send To menu accepts pngs. A dropdown menu in which to check jpeg/png? KSnapshot support a frightful lot of filetypes. In the case of image editors, a workaround is to *also* use the Copy function and then paste it onto the image, replacing the contents with the lossy clipboard contents.