Re: [Ids-devel] RE: line errors

[Ashley M. K. <as...@pc...>]

Bruce Lewin wrote:

> I could probably go find this on my own, but since you've run into it 
> before, I thought you might know:
> Is there a quick command-line util that could just do this to all my 
> pics in a batch? I would have to open and save something like 2000 
> tiffs! (Yikes!) These are all images that I have taken with a minolta 
> 7i... I've never had a single problem with these images before, and 
> imagemagick seems to be able to read jpgs written by the camera... 

    Well no, is it failing on ALL the images, or just a few?  What 
happens if you temporary remove that image from your album?  Will it 
fail on the next one in the batch?  My experience has been that it's 
only on a few images, and a quick open->resave takes care of it.  (And 
IM could do this if you write a batch perl script.)

> What do you mean by "strip everything off prior to saving"? I've never 
> opened many of these files individually to edit.
> Thanks again for helping :).

    It could be anything, from non-standard EXIF information, to other, 
non-standard TIFF options being saved by the camera.  Unfortunately the 
technology is changing extremely fast, and trying to keep up with what 
manufacturers are coming out with is just a losing battle.

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