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Preview ignores EXIF Orientation tag for jpegs

Bug #1072191 reported by Andrew McCarthy on 2012-10-27

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal), Unity 6.8.0-0ubuntu2

Many (most?) cameras detect when a photo was taken while the camera was rotated, and store this in the JPEG EXIF Orientation tag. The preview view does not check the Orientation tag so many photographs, typically those in portrait format, are not rotated correctly.

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John Goodwin (johgoodwin) wrote on 2012-11-09:

My Unity Photo lens does give the the correct rotation but any pictures in Files & Folders lens are not rotated correctly. In Gnome 3.4.2 the thumbnails do not show the correct rotation, however when I open these files in Image Viewer 3.6.0 they are displayed with the correct rotation. Glslideshow in Xscreensaver also shows portrait pictures incorrectly in lanscape mode.
Prior to upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10 all these pictures displayed correctly in Gnome thumbnail view and in the GLslideshow.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-11-09:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2014-07-23

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Andreas E. (andreas-e) wrote on 2014-10-11:

screenshot of preview (wrong orientation) and thumbnail (right orientation) Edit (311.4 KiB, image/png)

Still an issue in 14.04 / Unity 7.2.3

For me all thumbnails in the dash (in both file and photo lense) have the correct orientation, only when clicking on an item to open the larger preview, the preview has wrong orientation. See the attached screenshot.