Re: Can thumbnails be included in jpeg images generated by xsane?

From: Nick Lamb (njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 19:35:23 PST

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    Rick (but to the list since it sets Reply-To:)

    On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:27:57PM -0700, Rick Rosinski wrote:
    > I noticed that there are no thumbnails in the images that I browse though
    > Gimp's file load dialog; the dialog reports that preview is not available.

    Yup, there isn't a preview file on disk with the same name.

    > Other jpegs generated by other programs show up fine in the preview. IS there
    > a way to have xsane save jpegs with the thumbnail?

    There is no thumbnail in the JFIF file format, nor in the JPEG standard
    itself. You are looking at .xvpics thumbnails, used by several (but by
    no means most) applications in Unix for image thumbnails.

    So, no. There is no reason why XSane would generate such thumbnails, but
    I suppose if you ask the right person nicely it could be persuaded to
    kick something out into the .xvpics directory. I do not know if this
    is (a) easy or (b) sensible.

    Nick.

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