[ubuntu-us-mn] image orientation question

[Colin Harrington]

or try this:

jhead -autorot *.jpg

from:
http://blog.zindel.org/?p=105

You may have to install jhead <http://linux.die.net/man/1/jhead> (sudo
apt-get install jhead)

Colin Harrington
colin.harrington at gmail.com


On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Colin Harrington <
colin.harrington at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I have that happen all the time.  Some applications look at the exif<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format>meta-data embeded in the pictures and automatically rotate them.
>
> Try opening the file in Gimp, It should offer to rotate for you.  Then you
> can just save it again.
>
> Colin Harrington
> colin.harrington at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:24 AM, mark.katerberg at gmail.com <
> mark.katerberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fred H Olson <fholson at cohousing.org> wrote:
>>
>> >My wife took these pictures with her cellphone:
>> >
>> >http://www.justcomm.org/temp/IMG_20110610_143734.jpg
>> >http://www.justcomm.org/temp/IMG_20110610_143809.jpg
>> >
>> >Curiously when viewed at with firefox they are sideways
>> >but when downloaded and viewed with Eye of Gnome image viewer ( eog )
>> >they are right side up.
>> >
>> >My guess is that the camera tags them (stored in the jpeg file) with
>> >the orientation of the phone when taken and eog uses this to orient
>> >them properly but firefox does not.
>> >
>> >Can anyone confirm?  I looked on the eog help site and found a question
>> >that may be related:
>> >https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+question/75393
>> >but the answers did not lend much clarity.
>> >
>> >Is it possible to edit/rotate the image and save it, say with gimp,
>> >but leave the flag untouched (now wrong) which would account for the
>> >problems in the question above.
>> >
>> >FRed
>>
>> I found the following site useful in instructing me about how to use
>> 'convert'
>>
>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-graf/
>>
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