Re: [PLUG] jpeg maybe rotating

Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> · Mon, 9 May 2005 10:11:52 -0400

Yeah, I was thinking I might end up doing it that way.  It's also the
unix way, though, to discover that some tool already exists for what
you want. ;-)

BTW, from your sig:

    jeff@asterix:jeff $ curl http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~widyono
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
    <HTML><HEAD>
    <TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>
    </HEAD><BODY>
    <H1>Not Found</H1>
    The requested URL /~widyono was not found on this server.<P>
    <HR>
    <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.cis.upenn.edu Port 80</ADDRESS>
    </BODY></HTML>
    jeff@asterix:jeff $

-Jeff

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:26:19AM -0400, Dan Widyono wrote:
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> I'd say from a purely naive point of view (just scanned the website for
> libexif) that you could get the sf.net/projects/exif program to use libexif
> to scan the exif tag info to make your needs-rotating function.  That's the
> Unix[tm] way. :)
> 
> Dan W.
> 
> > What I want is to script this so I can say
> > 
> >     if [ needs-rotating; ]; then
> >         mv file.jpg file.jpg.orig
> >         exiftran -a file.jpg.orig -o file.jpg
> >     fi
> > 
> > Any suggestions?

-- 
 Jeff

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