Bug 15367 – ImageViewer: needs to rotate images based on EXIF data

Bug 15367 - ImageViewer: needs to rotate images based on EXIF data

Summary:

ImageViewer: needs to rotate images based on EXIF data

Status:	NEW

Product:	SqueezePlay
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Screensavers
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	Macintosh Debian Linux

Importance:	-- normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	8.0.0
Assigned To:	Unassigned bug - please assign me!

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Keywords:	CX

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Blocks:
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Reported:	2009-12-23 08:37 UTC by Michael Herger
Modified:	2011-11-06 23:24 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Description Michael Herger 2009-12-23 08:37:56 UTC

While there's a setting to rotate images, it won't work with most pictures taken with digicams. ImageViewer is checking the file's aspect ratio. But most photos are always in landscape mode, only an exif flag tells the software about its orientation. 

ImageViewer would need to read that exif data in order to correctly display portrait mode.

Comment 1 Chris Owens 2010-02-01 08:04:45 UTC

This seems like a great bug for someone in the community to work on :)  Should I post it to the forums as a suggestion?

Comment 2 Michael Herger 2010-02-01 08:16:36 UTC

> This seems like a great bug for someone in the community to work on :)

Sure. But it's rather low level. I'm not sure at which exact point the  
files are read. But I gave up when it came down to SDL...

Comment 3 Chris Owens 2010-02-02 12:00:35 UTC

Looking again at this, it seems like more of a bug.

Comment 4 Michael Herger 2010-03-18 22:15:24 UTC

*** Bug 15920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Mark Miksis 2010-03-18 22:18:44 UTC

It seems to me that ImgeViewer should read EXIF anyway and (optionally) display it.

Comment 6 SVN Bot 2010-04-08 23:47:15 UTC

 == Auto-comment from SVN commit #8683 to the jive repo by mherger ==
 == http://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8683 ==

Bug: 15367
Description: partial workaround until this bug is fixed. As long as we don't support auto-rotation based on EXIF data, at least use the IV option to rotate images based on the image ratio

Comment 7 Alan Young 2011-11-06 23:24:13 UTC

Unassigned bugs cannot have a priority.