Attachment 61450 Details for Bug 49798 – respect metadata patch

[patch] respect metadata patch

0001-specify-that-orientation-metadata-should-be-respecte.patch (text/plain), 1.43 KB, created by Michael Chudobiak on 2012-05-11 06:25:33 UTC

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Created: 2012-05-11 06:25:33 UTC

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>From 390d4cb4241486175e123ef19888ba1723b9afec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: "Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc@avtechpulse.com>
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 09:22:00 -0400
>Subject: [PATCH] specify that orientation metadata should be respected
>
>---
> thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml |    9 +++++++++
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml b/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml
>index 091b5d1..cb539b6 100644
>--- a/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml
>+++ b/thumbnail/thumbnail-spec.sgml
>@@ -223,6 +223,15 @@
>         possible quality when creating the thumbnail. The exact meaning of this
>         is left to the specific program but it should consider applying
>         antialiasing.</para>
>+
>+     <para>If the original file contains metadata affecting the interpretation
>+        of the image, it should be respected as much as possible. In particular,
>+        metadata specifying the orientation of the original image data should 
>+        always be respected. The image data should be transformed as specified by the 
>+        metadata before generating the thumbnail. JPEG files commonly have Exif 
>+        orientation tags. TIFF files may also have Exif orientation tags, although
>+        this is less common. It is less critical, but still desirable, to respect
>+        other image metadata, such as white balance information.</para>
>      </sect2>
> 
>      <sect2 id="addinfos"><title>Thumbnail Attributes</title> 
>-- 
>1.7.7.6
>

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