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Quoting Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 1. The collection has been taken by about 7 different cameras at various > times. Since the actual file creation and modification times are going > to be wrong (due to copying them around), I need to get at the JPEG time > stamp (I am seriously hoping everyone had their clocks set right). I > cannot find any command line programs which will give me the JPEG > attributes- anyone know of any? That data contained in JPEGS is more commonly known as EXIF data - Jhead is one common application that can read that data. There are others about as well. > 2. Several of the cameras know which way up they are when they take the > photo. It seems that they save this as a JPEG attribute and leave the > picture alone. The konqueror photo viewer and gwenview read this and > display the photo the right way up, but firefox and other programs do > not. Using the rotate tools in the konqueror photo manager I can rotate > 90 degrees in one direction and then rotate back and the image itself is > rotated and the problem is solved, but to do that for several hundred > photos manually is silly (this will hopefully be solved at the same time > as 1). That information is also in the EXIF data. Pete Hatton --------------------------------- E-mail: pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Webpage: http://www.monolight.org --------------------------------- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html