[Digikam-users] Question / feature request

[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Yan Seiner wrote:

> 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.

Sure, there are many features ... ;-)
Have a look at the documentation,
http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#setup-embeddedinfo

Untick: "Show images/thumbs rotated according to orientation tag"

> 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.

The above setting should do what you want.

HTH, Arnd