[Digikam-devel] exif information: rotate

[Rainer Krienke]

On Mittwoch 03 August 2005 13:27, Tom Albers wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>


Its version 0.8. I right now did a svn update in the graphics directory:
svn up digikam
svn up digikamimageplugins

svn says I now have Revision 442633. I recompiled and installed it and the bug 
is still there. Am I missing something?

Have a nice day
Rainer
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