always adds a “created with the GIMP” comment to files

[Thorsten Glaser]

Version: 2.6.6-0ubuntu1~hardy1~andre1

GIMP always adds a comment “Created with the GIMP” to files when saving. This is inacceptable, as it severely raises the file size, especially when trying to use GIMP to make photos smaller to get them to fit into space-constrained database fields or LDAP.

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I have to ask if 20-25 bytes really make that much of a difference when dealing with image files.

Still, I found several ways to get rid of the comment:

1- Set an empty default comment in Preferences -> Default image.
2- Uncheck "Save comment" (this appears for instance when saving as GIF or PNG; I didn't see it for JPG).

Hopefully one of these will make GIMP-edited images more suitable for your use case.

I'll set this bug report as Incomplete pending confirmation of whether this helps mitigate your problem.

Thanks!

[Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos)]

Thanks, that _seems_ to do the trick. As for why, when storing large binaries in LDAP, every three-octet group is precious (we have user photos in LDAP for perusal by the company’s Jabber server with mod_vcard_ldap and mod_shared_roster_ldap) as there are timeouts. We found that jpegPhoto attributes of about 4K (before base64 encoding) work best, and more than about 8K are unreasonable.

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

OK, based on the above comment and since the app provides a setting to override unwanted behavior (which is, on the other hand, a "feature" rather than a "bug"), I'll set the bug to Invalid.

Thanks for reporting back!