RAW files thumbnailing
by hub, Monday 25 April 2005 at 02:18 :: Gnome :: #161 :: rss
Despite being undocumented by the camera manufacturers, there are several Free Software tools to manipulate RAW files on Linux.
I was looking on how to provide thumbnails to RAW files in Nautilus.
I found 3 methods:
- Using the method described in that Mini-HOWTO for RAW files
- Use Novell package which does do the what as been described above, but providing a nice RPM of SuSE.
- Use gnome-raw-thumbnailer which I'm trying to make work as a package on Ubuntu.
The first two method just wrap dcraw in a shell script, which is quite heavy.
The latest just take dcraw
code to convert to thumbnails. It does the right thing as it extract the thumbnails from the RAW file and let GdkPixbuf
convert it to the thumbnail in PNG.
I wonder why Nautilus doesn't do that for JPEG files too as most digital cameras comes with a thumbnail inside the EXIF information; falling back to the actual method if needed.
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Monday 25 April 2005 06:12, by Simon MacMullen :: #
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