Showcase "pass through" settings

Hi, not sure if I’ve found a potential bug or I have misunderstood the settings in Showcase but I have discovered the following:

In the ‘Large Image Output’ box in the SC ‘Output’ box, I have always kept the ‘Pass-Through’ checkbox ticked (I do the same with all my images in FW too)

I have always assumed that this over-rides the setting that was previously in there. I recently discovered that during an upload, FW was uploading a lot of .PNG files. I understand that the thumbnail images are created as PNGs but showcase had “remembered” the previous setting and output all the large images as PNGs despite the fact that the images were JPGs in the first place.

The only way I could remedy this was to go back in to the output and:

Uncheck ‘pass-through’
Set output format to ‘JPG’
Re-check "pass-through’

Low and behold SC now outputted them all as JPGs!

Is my understanding of this function wrong or do I have to make sure that the output format is set to the desired format before checking ‘pass-through?’

Seems a bit strange if I do

Cheers

Mark


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PS: Meant to say, I’m using v1.1.1


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Hi Mark,

Well spotted. I’m logging the problem now. Incidentally, the images are actually being passed through (so they are JPEGs), it’s just they are being renamed with the wrong suffix. You can test this by opening the Terminal and using the “file” command followed by the path to one of the images. We’ll get it fixed nevertheless :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Joe


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Thanks Joe, never thought to check the actual file type. Would have saved me a bit of work!

Thanks for at least confirming my sanity! (not easy to do!) :slight_smile:

Mark


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