[Digikam-devel] exif information: rotate

[Tom Albers]

Op woensdag 3 augustus 2005 14:18, schreef 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?

Thanks for testing. Could you send me an image before it is being rotated, 
straight of the camera?

We'll have a look again then. 

gr. 

Toma