[Scribus] scribalbum.py

Craig Bradney cbradney
Mon Feb 28 02:27:04 CET 2005


On Monday 28 February 2005 02:17, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 22:46 +0100, Craig Bradney wrote:
> > you could try to get access to EXIF information and autorotate :)
>
> You'd need to use PIL (http://www.pythonware.com/) but can definitely do
> it.
>
> >From http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/pil-changes-114.htm:
>
> + Added experimental EXIF support for JPEG files.  To extract EXIF
>   information from a JPEG file, open the file as usual, and call the
>   "_getexif" method.  If successful, this method returns a dictionary
>   mapping EXIF TIFF tags to values.  If the file does not contain EXIF
>   data, the "_getexif" method returns None.
>
>   The "ExifTags" module contains a dictionary mapping tags to tag
>   names.
>
>   This interface will most likely change in future versions.
>
> With Python it's easy to fall back to a no-PIL method at runtime if
> necessary, so you don't need to worry about the extra dependency so long
> as you check the import and only use PIL if it's present.

Yep, you can check this stuff out as its now used in the Font Sampler from 
SJC.

Craig
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