Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 122748
Cannot rotate images with upper case extensions
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:42 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040505 Description of problem: I cannot seem to rotate images with uppercase extentions. i.e. can rotate 'image.jpg' but not 'image.JPG' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open gthumb 2. try to rotate 'image.JPG' 3. image.JPG still same orientation Actual Results: Image remains the same. Expected Results: The desired transformation is applied to the image. Additional info: Perhaps a tolower is needed? Or is this the correct behaviour? I would not have thought so.
Yes, it seems that gthumb is simply not identifying the pictures as jpeg images. Workaround: In Edit>Preferences, on the "Browser" tab, check the checkbox "Determine image type from content (slower)"; after doing this rotating images works (at least with jpeg files from my digital camera; haven't tried any other file types). Of course it's not correct behavior; pleas don't ask for an "unbreak-me" option, this should just be fixed. :) It's actually really annoying since the default for importing images from digital cameras is often to use uppercase filenames since they typically use FAT filesystems.
This is fixed in RAWHIDE soon to become Fedora Core 3.