Tuesday, April 29, 2003

XML in Photoshop 7 Jpegs

What a pain! I have had a significant amount of hassle from this problem:

Photoshop 7 adds XML content to saved jpgs. Now this only happens if you DON’T use the ‘save for web’ feature and so probably goes unnoticed to most.

A jpeg with added XML data will crash Internet Explorer 6 on PC. Not version 5 and not any version on MAC. I said crash but actually it is even more serious than that becasue Internet Explorer will not load another image until you restart! So if you FTP a jpeg to your site be sure to use the ‘save for web’ menu.

furthermore...

I am not the first to discover this - PhotNet but it is difficult to understand what is going on, when you observe it. In fact I thought that my site http://www.inspiresoxford.net/ was somehow being filtered! The reason that I was using the 'save as' rather than 'save for web' is that I preferred to let the server side software on my http://www.inspiresoxford.net/ site, handle the compression of the jpgs. I use PhotoPost. (see previous post: PhotoBlogs ) In fact, Photopost have now released a new version with the option of using 'JPEGTRAN' on the server. This now appears to have solved my problem however, I did have to download all the images from the server and then remove the offending XML.