[Digikam-users] Problems with EXIF Orientation

[Renchi Raju]

Stephan Olbrich wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 09:11, Renchi Raju wrote:
>>a recent fix was added to the digikam and the kipi-plugin (which
>>provides the rotation capability). 0.8 version of digikam and 0.1.0-rc1
>>of kipi-plugins (when they are released) will work correctly in this case.
> 
> So I'll have to wait for the release...

digikam 0.8-beta1 is already out and 0.8beta2 will be out soon and so 
will be the next release for kipi-plugins.

> As far as I can see, there is an exif info but no orientation tag in the exif 
> properties.
> 
> 
>>if yes, then you can use 
>>"correct exif orientation tag" from the menus to set the orientation.
> 
> That's what I tried to do, but does not work.
> So this only works, when there is already an orientation tag? Is there any way 
> to manually add the tag? (with another program?)
> 
> Is exif that complicated, that there is no program, that can create exif tags, 
> rather than just change them?

exiftool and exiv2 can add exif tags.

renchi