[kde-linux] image viewer orientation

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2012-09-06, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> [KDE 4.6.5 on Fedora 15]
> 
> I recently took a lot of pictures on my camera and smartphone. Usually I
> use Konqueror or Gwenview to review them. But there is a disconnect between
> the orientation I see in those apps, and what the images actually are as
> shown by the Konqueror preview image. The preview image actually shows the
> proper orientation, upside-down even, whereas Konqueror and Gwenview auto-
> rotate them to a "proper" view for display. This is deceiving, and I can't
> trust these apps to show me the as-recorded orientation.
> 
> Is there an app that will show me the proper as-shot orientation that the
> image preview uses?

You could try digikam, it can do both types of display (it has a setting to 
enable auto rotating depending on embedded orientation info).

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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