#33 Unnecessary EXIF data

[Thomas Andersen]

I’ve just tried IDS. My first impression is good.
However, I can’t help wonder about a few things.

In my gallery I noticed that picture thumbnails are about
50 kb.

Standard the gallery shows 12 thumbnails a page. In
total, each page take 600 kb.

I’ve tried to take one of the thumbnails and strip it for
EXIF data. The new size was 3 kb.
For all 12 thumbnails that would make 36 kb.

I have come up with a fix for it.

In idsShared.pm line 581 there is this:
$imageToScale->Set quality=>$main::imageQuality);

Right beneath, add this:
$imageToScale->Profile(undef) if ($maxDimension ==
$previewMaxDimension);

This will remove color profiles and exif data to the
thumbnail only. Not the other resized pictures.

You have now saved about 560 kb a page. That is
about 100 seconds in a 56k modem.