How do I turn on exif?

[pgowder]

I have it set in the settings, installed jhead.exe.

What else? I'm not getting any errors, but photos aren't displaying the info.

www.powwows.com/galleries

Thanks

[Chuck S]

You set the path in Admin => Global Options and then in Admin => Upload Photo Options you turn on the option to extract exif

Then of course you need to upload a photo with exif to test

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You set the path in Admin => Global Options and then in Admin => Upload Photo Options you turn on the option to extract exif

Then of course you need to upload a photo with exif to test

As I said, I have set it in the settings. But I'm not seeing it.

[Chuck S]

Your not seeing what though? If you upload a photo with exif data there should be show exif link when viewing a photo

As long as jhead is installed correctly you should be able to extract exif as long as the switches are turned on

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Your not seeing what though? If you upload a photo with exif data there should be show exif link when viewing a photo

As long as jhead is installed correctly you should be able to extract exif as long as the switches are turned on

Here are two photos I just uploaded:
http://www.powwows.com/galleries/sho...t=500&ppuser=2

http://www.powwows.com/galleries/sho...t=500&ppuser=2

No exif information.

[pgowder]

So how can I get this working?

[Chuck S]

If you have everything turned on and it does not work all I can suggest is you compile it from source on your server

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

If you have everything turned on and it does not work all I can suggest is you compile it from source on your server

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

Downloaded it again. Uploaded another photo and still nothing.

What else could it be?

[pgowder]

I downloaded a photo from photopost to make sure exif is still in the photo.

When photopost watermarks the photo, it appears to be overwriting the exif information.

And I tested it with watermarking off. GD is still overwriting exif when it resizes the image.

How can I fix that?

[Chuck S]

We extract info on the image if there is a working exif installed

http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/show...2/limit/recent

I compiled mine from source and it works on my server

Given we are talking an external working program I can only state it needs to be compiled correctly. If it is working the info will be extracted

You do have display and extract exif info turned on under upload options in admin right and you do have the correct jhead path including jhead installed in global options right?

I would state you need to look at your server error logs to give you some hints here on your issue with jhead

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

We extract info on the image if there is a working exif installed

http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/show...2/limit/recent

I compiled mine from source and it works on my server

Given we are talking an external working program I can only state it needs to be compiled correctly. If it is working the info will be extracted

You do have display and extract exif info turned on under upload options in admin right and you do have the correct jhead path including jhead installed in global options right?

I would state you need to look at your server error logs to give you some hints here on your issue with jhead

So are you saying that you aren't going to help?

As I said in my last post, there isn't any exif info in the photo. Do you or anyone know how to configure this so that GD doesn't overwrite the photo?

I'm on Windows with IIS, so I can't recompile like you are doing.

[Chuck S]

I have been helping. I am telling you how it works.

As far as being on a windows server as long as you have backend access you can install jhead. If you dont then unless your host corrects this issue for you there is not much to be done

exif info is extracted before any new images are created so your issue has nothing to do with gd2. It has to do with the fact your jhead is not working

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

I have been helping. I am telling you how it works.

As far as being on a windows server as long as you have backend access you can install jhead. If you dont then unless your host corrects this issue for you there is not much to be done

exif info is extracted before any new images are created so your issue has nothing to do with gd2. It has to do with the fact your jhead is not working

You have been responding, but just pointing to 3rd party apps.

I have installed jhead. How can I test to see if it is working?

So GD overwriting all the info doesn't affect this?

When I pull up exif info on a photo that has been uploaded I see this:
CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 100

[Chuck S]

GD creating new images based on your original info has no bearing on this

How are you pulling info?

This entire discussion is about a 3rd party application. You would need to test your jhead by the docs on jhead site

We use this command to extract jhead

$system_cmd = "{$Globals['jhead_command']} -exonly $file";

which would translate to say this

/usr/bin/jhead -exonly /var/www/html/gallery/uploads/1/somefile.jpg

Note note for us to extract info the showexif switch must be yes in Admin => Upload Options and then of course you must be using the correct path to jhead in the global options

C:/jhead/jhead.exe ???

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

GD creating new images based on your original info has no bearing on this

How are you pulling info?

This entire discussion is about a 3rd party application. You would need to test your jhead by the docs on jhead site

We use this command to extract jhead

$system_cmd = "{$Globals['jhead_command']} -exonly $file";

which would translate to say this

/usr/bin/jhead -exonly /var/www/html/gallery/uploads/1/somefile.jpg

Note note for us to extract info the showexif switch must be yes in Admin => Upload Options and then of course you must be using the correct path to jhead in the global options

C:/jhead/jhead.exe ???

I've tested the exif by downloading photos and opening them in a photo editor program. It just shows that line I posted for exif info. So PP reads the exif before GD edits the photo? And then stores it in the db?

I've tested jhead and it is working.

How can I troubleshoot this more?

[Chuck S]

How do you test exif? Have you ran the command line as noted what does it show?

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

How do you test exif? Have you ran the command line as noted what does it show?

Yes, I ran it command line and did get information. I ran it, of course, on another photo, not one in the photopost db--since the exif information is removed from those.

[Chuck S]

And what happened when you uploaded the photo that had the exif info after you double checked exif is turned on and the full server path is right?

[pgowder]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

And what happened when you uploaded the photo that had the exif info after you double checked exif is turned on and the full server path is right?

Same thing, no link to exif information.

[pgowder]

I have this as the path:
c:/jhead/jhead.exe

That is where the file is. Is that the correct format?