On 5/13/12 12:30 PM, Ant wrote: > On 5/13/2012 11:18 AM PT, David E. Ross typed: >> >> Photos taken with the iPhone upside-down or sideways are automatically >> reoriented when displayed by the iPhone. There is a flag in the image >> file that indicates the orientation of the iPhone when the photo was >> taken and a sensor in the iPhone that indicates the current orientation. >> >> There has been much debate about whether to reorient photos in TBird and >> SeaMonkey's mail-news according the the flag. See bug #298619 at >> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298619>. > > Wow! I thought there was something wrong with my old computer/SeaMonkey! > Do I assume other e-mail clients, beside Mozilla's, do this too? I am > getting more and more iPhone's sent photographs/photos. these days. :(
I don't know about other E-mail clients. I understand that not all digital cameras set the EXIF flag, especially older cameras. The real problem is that there are few (if any) tools to tweak the EXIF flag. Thus, a photo that has been manually rotated (e.g., via Micro$oft's Photo Editor) will be again rotated -- incorrectly -- by an application that does check the EXIF flag because the sender was not able to reset that flag. Frankly, I still consider photos from phones to be of poorer quality than photos from an actual camera. I use a Canon digital camera and do not have any kind of smart phone. I always view my photos and often resize and crop them before sending them via E-mail. In the process, I manually rotate those that require reorientation. I have yet to find a specification for the EXIF flag. Thus, I cannot manually reset the flag with my hex editor if I manually rotate a photo. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
