[Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

[gg at catking.net]

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:37:28 +0200, Roel Schroeven  
<rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>
> 1. open a.jpg
> 2. save a.jpg
> -> a.jpg is saved with the default quality, 85. Fine by me.
> 3. save a.jpg with "save as", with quality say 55
> -> as expected it is saved with quality 55.
> 4. open b.jpg
> 5. save b.jpg
> -> b.jpg is saved with quality 55 instead of 85!!
> Wouldn't it be better if gimp acted in one of those two ways:
> 1. always save with the default quality, except when "save as" is used.
> 2. read the quality when loading a jpeg, and used that to save the image
> (if "save as" is not used).

thanks for digging that out.

is that from todays svn, Sven committed a patch earlier today that may  
affect that.

the default setting now settable by the user (thanks Etienne). see bug  
#63610