Re: gd Graphics Library Question (EXIF)

On Friday, 29 April 2011 at 03:33, Mitch wrote: I have written a lightweight, easy to use photo album "system" in > HTML/PHP/MySQL.In addition to the Photo Album side I have written a > series of Admin Utilities to manage it with. One of the administrative > utilities uploads photos from my local drive, resizes them to be more > efficient on disk space, creates thumbnails and populates the database > with as much "default" data as can be deduced. > > After all of this was written, I decided to see if I could pull EXIF > data to supply some of the technical data for the DB. To my surprise, > the only EXIF data in the JPEG files was data in the File, Computed and > Comments sections. > > Why don't the gd utilities retain the original EXIF data? Is there any > way to do so? I use the following gd utilities to resize and create the > new JPEG image files: > > imagecreatefromjpeg > imagesx > imagesy > imagercreatetruecolor > imagecopyresized > imagejpeg This is a known shortcoming of the GD library. You won't have that issue with ImageMagick: http://php.net/book.imagick -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/