>> If you start Shotwell with a dummy library (e.g. 'shotwell -d foo')
and import just those photos, are the orientation and dimensions correct?
Yes.

>> What version of Shotwell are you running?
0.11.6-0ubuntu0.1
I have the yorba ppa in my repo, but is that the most recent?
or --version reports "Shotwell 0.11.6".

>> What operating system version are you running?
Linux poseidon 3.0.0-16-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 27 17:44:39 UTC
2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 11.10
Release:        11.10
Codename:       oneiric

>> Have you made any edits to these photos in Shotwell? Have you edited
them in an external editor?
I believe no to both, but I'm not 100%.

On 02/29/2012 03:26 PM, Clinton Rogers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please pardon my intruding upon this thread, but this sounds very
> similar to http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4747 .   If you can tell us
> more about what version of Shotwell you're running, and, if you're
> using trunk, what commit you're on*, that will provide a huge clue.
>
> In the Shotwell code, there is a function named get_dimensions() that
> takes, among other arguments, a flag that tells it whether to take
> into account EXIF orientation or not when computing the width and
> height of a given image, and another function named
> get_raw_dimensions() that returns the width and height of an image
> before any orientation changes or editing are taken into account
> (they're pulled directly from the image).  My guess is that somewhere,
> a call to get_dimensions() is being told not to respect the
> orientation when it in fact should or we're using get_raw_dimensions()
> in a place where get_dimensions() is needed, which would explain why
> the values you see for the width and height of your affected photos
> are (sort of) correct, but reversed (along with stretching or
> squashing).
>
> Cheers,
> -c
>
> * this can be determined by going to where you've checked out the
> Shotwell source code and typing 'git log', then looking at the topmost
> entry in the resulting text, which will usually be something like
> 'commit <long hexadecimal number here>'. The hexadecimal number is
> what we're interested in.
>
> On 2/29/12, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Joseph,
>>
>> On 02/28/2012 09:45 PM, Joseph Bylund wrote:
>>> When I view my library some portrait photos are stretched to landscape
>>> dimensions, such that people are very wide (i.e. right orientation,
>>> wrong dimensions). Weirdly when I double click these the orientation is
>>> wrong but the dimensions are right.  Rotating again gives me short
>>> people sideways in the overview and normal people correctly oriented if
>>> I double click.
>>
>> What version of Shotwell are you running?  What operating system version
>> are you running?  Have you made any edits to these photos in Shotwell?
>> Have you edited them in an external editor?  If you start Shotwell with
>> a dummy library (e.g. 'shotwell -d foo') and import just those photos,
>> are the orientation and dimensions correct?
>>
>>> Somewhat unrelated, can I reset my password on the redmine site if I
>>> know only my username (i.e. no email, but I'm sure I'll get the message
>>> if an email is sent to the address I registered with).
>>
>> No.  I'll send you a private email message with your registered email
>> address.
>>
>> adam

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March 1, 2012
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