Rotating attachments in Mail

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Rotating attachments in Mail

With some jpegs, when attached to an email, will rotate, so that the picture is on it's side. This happens with scanned photos as well as iPhone photos. I've tried opening them in Preview and resaving them. Even if they show correctly in other applications, Mail turns them with no recourse. What can I do? I'm an Apple snob and I don't like telling my friends "sorry my Mac can't send this right-side-up."

1.2GHz 14.1" iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Apr 9, 2008 4:22 PM

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Answer 1

Jarndyce

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Jun 22, 2008 3:14 AM in response to tiny video maker

Did you ever find an answer to this?

I have just encountered the same problem.
With mine, it appears to involve photos shot in portrait orientation on a Nikon D70. They are automatically rotated in preview (how does it know to do this?), but not as an attachment in mail. And I can't rotate them.

Anyone?

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Answer 2

Mulder

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Jun 22, 2008 7:56 AM in response to tiny video maker

This is not a bug, it's a feature. Previous version of OS X did not support the standard EXIF-standard rotation, and 10.4 and higher do support it. To quote from Apple:

-This means that, in earlier versions, saving an image after rotating changed the actual pixels of the image file. However, this was often not desireable because rewriting the image file itself in the new orientation could degrade image quality (especially with lossy graphic formats such as JPEG). With EXIF-compatible applications, if you rotate an image, the file doesn't need to be rewritten.-

If you need the image rotated permanently in all applications, you'll need to run it through an image manipulation program that can rotate the actual pixels, such as Photoshop Elements, Photoshop, Graphic Converter, etc. You will then, of course, suffer possible image degradation.

Mulder

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