[Gimp-user] exif loss

[Andrew]

Rinke H. wrote:
> Hi list, 
>
> I have gimp 2.6 and ufraw installed on a windows 2000 sp4 machine. 
>
> Whenever I try to convert a dng file (the pentax raw file format) my exif
> data gets completely lost. 
>
> If I send the image from ufraw to gimp, and then save it, I get no error
> message at all; 
> if I save it directly from ufraw, I I get an error message saying: "exif
> buffer length 79514, too long, ignored" .
>
> Does anybody know if there 's a sollution to this? 
>
> Is there a work-around? Can I copy my exif data back into the jpg image in an
> easy way?
>
> thanks, 
>
>
>
>   
A possible workaround would be to copy the exif data from the original 
.dng to the converted file using exiftool.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

HTH

Andrew