[Digikam-users] command line tool to normalize exif orientation flag

[Jean-François Rabasse]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, jdd wrote:

> As far as I understand, the three related images should have the same 
> orientation, no?
>
> in dolphin, it's ok
>
> In my 2.6.0 digikam (Date de construction : May 11 2012 (cible : release)), 
> the "normal" (600x800) image is rotated to the right, the two others are
> seen normally, vertical.

Looking at your six images with firefox (firefox doesn't put its nose into
EXIF stuff and displays JPEGs as scan lines are found) all seems correct.

What you call « normal » image is the image with same filename as the
initial one (your $I under shell).
Maybe Digikam has already seen this image under this name, before your 
processing.
DK keeps image orientation in the database (table ImageInformation,
field orientation) and possibly didn't reload infos after you've run
your script, thus keeping a wrong orientation information.

Should try to copy your image under a different fresh new name, and
rstart Digikam to let it get « new image »...
Or tell DK to « Reread metadata from images files ».

Regards,

Jean-François