[wellylug] New article on wellylug.org.nz

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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:53:35 +0100, Martin Bähr wrote:
> instead of using imagemagick to rotate, i'd suggest you look at
> exiftran. it will allow you to rotate the jpg image without any loss,
> and even check the exif information from your digital camera for the
> correct rotation. so you could have an action entry "fix rotation" that
> would do the right thing automaticly.
> 

Good idea.  

I had seen exiftran.  I don't use it in my case because:

a) the image gets resized anyway, which is not lossless.
b) my camera has no orientation info (I've seen ones that do)
c) exiftran is not in Debian stable

I have used jpegtran to losslessly rotate images when I haven't been
resizing, which works well but does lose the exif information. 
Typically I'm just adjusting a copy of a photo before I take it to a
photo shop for printing, so it doesn't bother me.

But good idea.

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')