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

[Gilles Caulier]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 02:32 am, Paul Sommer 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 thai 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

The problem have been solved definitivly in both svn branch.

Regards

Gilles Caulier