[OSM-Photos] Exif-orientation not regarded

[Liz]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, malenki wrote:
> Laurence Penney wrote:
> >There are lots of programs that don't handle the EXIF rotation flag,
> >so if you use it you don't have any guarantee that the photo will
> >stay rotated.
>
> A pity. Gimps asks how to handle images with orientation-flag.
>
> >For lossless JPEG rotation I use jpegtran (Mac or Linux)
>
> Some time ago I used to use this script to rotate jpegs:
> for i ; do jpegtran -rot 270 "$i" > "$i"_; rm -f "$i";mv "$i"_ "$i";done
>
> Disadvantage: all Exif-Data is removed
>
> >or the right-click, rotate UI in Windows Explorer.
>
> Don't have that. Times ago irfanview was my standard image viewer and
> handler.
>
> regards
> malenki
>

linux solutions

http://langs-tech-stuff.blogspot.com/2008/02/exif-auto-rotate-scale-your-
photos.html
and some more ideas here
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t244613-imagemagick-and-lossless-jpeg-
rotation.html