[Digikam-users] No EXIF-Dater after auto rotation

[Paul Sommer]

On Tue, 2 May 2006 02:32:45 +0200
Paul Sommer <paul1 at paul-sommer.de> wrote:

> >> starting from Version digikam_0.8.1-2_i386.deb, digikam deletes the
> >> EXIF-Data from pictures.
> >> When I download pictures from my camera all the photos that are in portrait
> >> mode (thus rotated) does not have any EXIF-data. Landscape Pictures are OK.
> >>
> >> After reinstalling Ver. 0.8.0-1-1+b1 the EXIF-Data stays correct.
> 
> >Witch libexif you use. Have any error messages when you start digikam from a 
> >console ?
> 
> In both the cases I use libexif12 Ver 0.6.13-4. libexif10 Ver 0.6.9-6 is also installed but seems
not to be used
> 
> 
> I Don't get any stating messages from both the versions.
> 
> When loading an image that has to be rotated the old version says:
> 
> digikam: Number of EXIF tags in IFD0 section:9
> digikam: Wrote Image Orientation: 1
> digikam: Wrote file '/media/Photos/2006-04 - Varchaa, Arun, Nina/.digikam-exifrotate-18429'.
> digikam: WARNING: Trying to append a Metadata item for an unknown key (no ItemInfo): EXIF comment
> 
> The Exif-Data of that picture ist there after rotation
> 
> When I process se same picture with the 8.1 Version it simply says:
> 
> digikam: No EXIF information found.
> 
> And the resulting picture is missing any Exif-Data.
> 
> Paul Sommer
> 
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