Export dialog & embedded thumbnails
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:15 am
The export dialog doesn't include any options for dealing with existing metadata & embedded thumbs, and it defaults to saving such info. If anything, the export dialog (whose primary purose is for finding the format & settings which create the smallest possible file, while maintaining an acceptable level of quality) should discard metadata (especially the embedded thumbs) by default.
Take a large image with an embedded thumb, crop it down to a fairly small image, export it. When you look at it in the browser you'll be thinking "WTF?!" because it looks like it didn't save your crop due to the embedded thumbnail still being the original one. In addition, the file will be nearly twice as large as it should be, because the embedded thumb is as large (or larger) as the entire cropped image.
Take a large image with an embedded thumb, crop it down to a fairly small image, export it. When you look at it in the browser you'll be thinking "WTF?!" because it looks like it didn't save your crop due to the embedded thumbnail still being the original one. In addition, the file will be nearly twice as large as it should be, because the embedded thumb is as large (or larger) as the entire cropped image.