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I often rescale photos in order to embed them in a Microsoft Word document and print them. My batch code is basically This works fine with most JPEGs, i.e. photos and JPEGs exported by Gimp, but fails on JPEGs written with Photoshop, see
http://www.unfallrekonstruktion.de/dacngised/test.jpg.

IM's Identify responds but the Windows Explorer still insists on a horizontal and vertical resolution of 72 dpi, and Word seems to do the same, as the photo will be much too large when inserted into a documented via Drag 'n Drop.

What exactly is the problem?

The problem may be Photoshop metadata. Try "-strip" before the output filename.

The problem seems to be solved in current versions of IM. I have just installed the current version, and now even the JPEGs exported by Photoshop are recognised with the correct resolution -- both by the Windows Explorer and Microsoft Word.

Up to now I still ran IM 6.8.0-1, dating from 2012: This was the version all of my scripts where tested with, and new versions can also mean new bugs. And yes, one should update from time to time, even at the risk of new bugs. But up to now I thought that there was something missing in my command line ...