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authorMichael J. Chudobiak <mjc@avtechpulse.com>2012-05-11 09:22:00 -0400
committerVincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>2012-06-08 13:57:53 +0200
commit266075cf62844ab639553c807de52ea9866f34b5 (patch)
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parent77b96e2fb58ddb5ed8d5e41b3a8c1aafc2831a8c (diff)
downloadxdg-specs-266075cf62844ab639553c807de52ea9866f34b5.tar.xz
thumbnail: Specify that orientation metadata should be respected
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49798 See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2012-May/012396.html
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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>