Problem description: A user wants to produce a foto book with Writer. His camera tags all fotos with a correct EXIF tag for the orientation. A foto viewer like e.g. Irfan View shows all fotos in the correct orientation. When a foto in an upright format is inserted into Writer, the foto appears in landscape format. Steps to reproduce: 1. Take a foto with the EXIF tag "Orientation" = Right Top 2. Menu Insert > Picture > From File Current behavior: The foto appears in landscape format Expected behavior: The foto should appear in upright format Operating System: Windows 7 Last worked in: 3.5.3 release
I can confirm this behavior. Image-program read the exif-tag, why doesn't writer use this information and turns the image. Could be that it will ask, if the image should be turned - like GIMP does.
has this ever worked with a previous version of LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org? please provide details on that question before using "regression" keyword. also it would help if you attach an example image that is inserted with the wrong orientation.
Created attachment 85178 [details] jpeg demo picture with exif orientation flag set
I think this bug is getting more and more important, e.g. many pictures taken with an IPhone are using the exif metadata orientation flag.
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3ad12d1a540eeb54fbb34afc3b7a76bf9e3207c3 fdo#57659: fix exif processing The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=fc7b83af9865bfd937cf45242781a8d7677f6204&h=libreoffice-4-1 fdo#57659: fix exif processing It will be available in LibreOffice 4.1.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
I confirm it works on LibreOffice 4.2.0.0.beta2 (Build ID: 1a27be92e320f97c20d581a69ef1c8b99ea9885d ) and on LibreOffice 4.1.4.2 (Build ID: 0a0440ccc0227ad9829de5f46be37cfb6edcf72). The both are on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64
setting to verified.