ThumbsPlus and an "ORIENTATION" flag in Jpeg photos ?

Thanks Mikey, for your help. I configured another instance of Agent,
for news.cerious.com and searched all the headers for
{ROTATE} | {ORIENTATION} and have a lot of reading to do.

At first blush, it looks like the feature has been implemented in one
or more recent releases, and that it is causing problems for some
users because their cameras don't do the EXIF tag/flag correctly.

Anyway, the charm was you suggesting the right word "rotate",
that gets me much more reading material.

Cheers, QE
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:11:54 GMT, "Mike Fields"
wrote:

|Just looked at the Thumbs Plus web page and couldn't find what I
|was looking for, but I seem to remember that the new version 7
|(I have not downloaded my copy yet) supports the "rotation flag"
|or maybe it is called an "orientation flag" -- something like that
|in the EXIF header on JPEG pictures. Some cameras create
|this flag to tell the orientation of the camera when the picture
|was taken ... I don't have a clue what it does if you are shooting
|straight up .. maybe it just does not matter. I seem to remember that
|from earlier emails on the new features in version 7. You might
|also want to check out the Thumbs Plus newsgroups from
|Cerious -- they have their own news server for their support.
|-- the server is news.cerious.com and there are several support
|groups with lots of good info in them.
|
|mikey
|
|"QuienEs" wrote in message
.. .
| My wife was given hundreds of large [around 2MB ea] old scanned
family
| photos - the idea being for me, the techie, to show them to her
with a
| ThumbsPlus 6 slide show. A large percentage of them need to be
| rotated 90 degrees clockwise for proper viewing on a PC
|
| The person who scanned them says he didn't rotate them because
there
| would be a loss of quality - the idea here being that if they were
to
| be printed it's better that they were not pre-rotated. I don't
| necessarily agree with his "loss of quality" belief, but that's
not
| my main question.
|
| He says that those that need rotation-on-viewing have some sort of
| internal flag [put in by him] and that he believes there is a way
in
| ThumbsPlus to tell it to inspect that flag during a slide show and
| rotate them before display. If that's true with Thumbs I cannot
find
| the option.
|
| The question is how do I get to that option in Thumbs, or in any
other
| popular program capable of doing slide shows ?
|
| FYI, I know how to easily copy them from the data-DVD to my hard
| drive and sort the thumbnails by orientation, then apply a batch
| rotate to those that need it- and that's my next step if I can't
find
| any hidden secrets from readers of this ng.
|
| TIA, QE in NJ
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