mysteryhunt/puzzle-editing — Issue #1: Photo upload does not respect EXIF orientation tag
Author: gwillen
Created: 2012-01-18 19:33:10+00:00
State: open

This means that photos taken with smartphones not in the upright orientation will be displayed wrong: They will be displayed oriented to the image sensor of the phone, instead of the way it was held when the photo was taken.

This bug is totally endemic to systems like this, and it will never be squashed everywhere, but I wanted to note it for the record.

An image which triggers this bug can be 'fixed' using jhead -autorot (http://linux.die.net/man/1/jhead), which will rotate the pixels to match the orientation marked in the header, and then clear the rotation field of the header.