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On 06/01/12 13:46, Marcel Stimberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Unless I'm mistaken, if you've got the "save metadata to files"
>> setting enabled, then rotating the photo should update the exif
>> Rotation value i.e. it should indeed be "permanent".
> It seems there is a problem with this currently: 
> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4239
> 
>> Whether any specific other application will pay attention to this
>> like it's supposed to, I couldn't say. But if they don't, that's
>> cause for a bug report to the other app rather than an 
>> enhancement request to shotwell in my opinion ;-)
> Many applications take the flag into account but unfortunately not
> all (at least for Ubuntu there are a couple of bug reports for
> such applications already). Shotwell has a ticket about being able
> to optionally "physically" rotate the image so that all
> applications display it correctly:
> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2581

That would be a good idea - but please use in the jpeg case losless
rotation.

Rainer

> 
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