Fail to load jpeg image

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Originally reported at https://bugs.debian.org/858617

Trying to import the attached .jpg file just fail, with a very vague error message "Failed to load the requested file /path/to/file..". On the terminal only "GdkPixbuf loader failed" is printed.

Importing and re-exporting the image with any bitmap program workarounds the issue.

Reproduced with 0.92.1.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Not reproduced on Windows 7 (64-bit) with lp:inkscape/0.92.x rev. 15413 (32-bit).
Somewhat reproduced with lp:inkscape rev. 15616 (MSYS2 devlibs, 64-bit). The imported image is empty, and the console shows a bunch of GdkPixbuf errors (see attachments). No error dialog.

[Gadget (carlosgadget)]

Same error with photos taken with a Moto G3 cel.

Workaround followed: open photo with Gimp, export as jpg (again) and import into Inkscape.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04 - Inkscape 0.92

Perhaps metadata of original photo causes this issue?

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

reproduced on Windows 10, Inkscape 0.92+devel (e1eae41, 2018-11-16)

Dos error message is:
Pixbuf::create_from_file: Error interpreting JPEG image file (Unsupported marker type 0xa0)
   (\windows\temp\img_20161206_163501.jpg)
GdkPixbuf loader failed

[VladBlanton (vblanton)]

Issue continues. Thank you for Gimp workaround. i had trouble with photos downloaded from my photos.google.com account or drive.google.com backups.

Inkscape 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11)
Ubuntu 18.10

[Daniel Stiefelmaier (mail-stiefelweb)]

Also happens with all images from my Pentax camera.
It seems to be the embedded thumbnail.

NOT a fix: recompressing, or removing random EXIF data
gm convert IMG_20161206_163501.jpg -size 10% small.jpg
exiv2 -M"del Exif.Photo.MakerNote" small.jpg

A fix: stripping ONLY the thumbnail
exiv2 -dt *.jpg

However, diff reveals that this moves the metadata section from the front to the back of the file.
So, the real issue might be either the size or the position of the meta data.

Also NOT a fix: stripping thumb from front and appending it to the end
exiv2 -et test.jpg # export to test-thumb.jpg
exiv2 -dt test.jpg # delete thumb
exiv2 -it test.jpg # import from test-thumb.jpg

However, ALSO A FIX: making the thumb smaller:
cp test-thumb.jpg test-thumb.org.jpg
gm convert test-thumb.org.jpg -quality 30% test-thumb.jpg
exiv2 -dt test.jpg # delete old thumb first - it DOES make a difference
exiv2 -it test.jpg

The largest thumbnail that worked was with 43% quality, which is very close to 10KiB.

[Kiran (kanginthaya)]

I had the same issue importing .jpg images taken from my mobile phone. The GIMP trick worked elegantly!

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Closing as part of migration to GitLab (see https://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration/)

I'll copy over new/relevant info from here to https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/964 . Note it was identified as an upstream issue, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/issues/70