[Digikam-devel] exif information: rotate

[Tom Albers]

Op woensdag 3 augustus 2005 13:19, schreef Rainer Krienke:
> On Mittwoch 03 August 2005 11:13, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > On Wed Aug 3 09:32:41 CEST 2005, Tom Albers wrote:
> > > Have you tried using the digiKam setting for that?
> >
> > Stupid me. I've not seen this option. Thanks for the hint!
>
> Well I just tried this with photos from my D70. The result were images that
> were completely wrong rotated.
>
> What I did was to copy D70 unprocessed images to a digikam album. In the
> config of digikam I have the option "rotate according Exif" turned on. The
> images are displayed in correct rotation in digikam.
>
> Next I selected "Image->Autorotate/Flip using Exif". The result should be
> images that are really rotated according to their exif information so other
> applications not aware of EXIF data display the images correctly anyway.
>
> Afterwards images that were previously correctly displayed in digikam in
> landscape are suddenly displayed in Protrait Mode and are now wrong. The
> Images that really need protrait mode are still in displayed in landscape.
> So the result is complete nonsense now. Next I tried to select the menu
> "Correct EXIF orientation tag". But this did not change anything. If I now
> look at there images in konqueror I see the same problems. So it seems that
> the images have been rotated but in a wrong manner.
>
> If I turn off the checkbox in digikam settings  "rotate according to Exif"
> the very same trouble is there after selecting "Image->Autorotate/Flip" on
> the photos.
>
> I guess there is still a bug.
>
> Usually I do this using jhead -autorot -exonly *.jpg which always works
> fine for me.

As far as I know this is fixed last week for 0.8. Which version are you using 
and if it is 0.8 from which date.

Tom