[Digikam-users] Question / feature request

[Yan Seiner]

Arnd Baecker wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>   
>> Is it possible to get digikam to *not* rotate the images when the exif
>> data says it's portrait but the image is actually landscape?
>>     
>
> You could use
>    Image: Auto rotate/Flip using Exif Tag
> followed by rotating the image so that it is displayed correctly.
>
>   
>> I have a script that explicitly rotates the images and it's really hard
>> on the editors to tell which way to rotate the image when digikam shows
>> it as portrait.
>>     
>
> Not sure I understand the previous sentence...
> You are aware of exifautotran:
>   exifautotran - Transforms Exif files so that Orientation becomes 1
>   

I'm trying to turn that off.  I'm fairly new to digikam, so I don't know 
all the features yet.

I have 4 still cameras in use at the moment; some set the exif data 
correctly, some don't, some do it once in a while.  We (the editors) use 
a script that rotates and rescales the images using  ImageMagick to 
display on a website.   We tell the script which way to rotate the image 
so that it is displayed correctly in the browser.   When the editors 
look at the thumbnails in digikam, if the image is displayed as 
portrait, we don't know which way to rotate it - right 90 deg or left 90 
deg.

It's easier for us if *all* images were displayed as landscape in the 
thumbnails so we can tell which way to rotate the image.

--Yan