Inconsistent watermark sizes depending on pictures ratio

[Martin Burnicki]

Hi,

Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> Hi Gilles, and happy new year to you too. ;-)
> 
> My problem doesn't seem to be the same as the one you pointed me too: I
> have no orientation problem for the pictures themselves (their
> orientation is good all along my workflow starting from the memory card
> import phase).
> 
> My issue concerns the size of the watermark, depending on the picture
> landscape/portrait 'orientation' (there might be another less confusing
> word, but I cannot find it at the moment). I'm currently setting up a
> Flickr gallery here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mnaugendre with
> pictures that are resized to 1024px. If you browse the gallery, you'll
> see that the watermark remains - more or less - the same size for
> portrait pictures as for landscape pictures.
> 
> But to achieve this result, I had to use the watermark at 20% for
> landscape pictures, and at 40% for portrait pictures. So, for each
> selection I want to upload to Flickr, I need to separate the pictures in
> two batches, and apply two different set of rules.
> 
> By the way, I had no such problem with my Piwigo gallery
> http://www.marie-noelle-augendre.com/photos as the pictures here are
> uploaded without a watermark, that is applied on the fly by Piwigo itself.

Just a thought:

Could be problem be depending on whether the image is really stored as
portrait or landscape, with exif info "normal", instead of being always
stored as landscape, with only exif info saying "normal" or "rotate to
portrait"?

Martin