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I have tried rotating a couple of images and all it does it distort the image and it leaves it facing the same the direction.
Has anybody else encountered this?
Luis
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hi,
i have had this problem, all i had to do is refresh my page which solves the problem.
sam
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Yeah, the browser is using the cached version of the image. Just force a refresh and all is good.
Roger Martin
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I forgot to mention that this only started happening after I upgraded to the latest release.
This wasn't happening before though. Why would it be happening now after the upgrade?
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Following your advice. I went to rotate an image and click on the left arrow because I wanted that side to be up and clicked rotate. I was then presented the distored image which at that point I hit the refresh button.
After the refresh the image was upside down! Like if I had chosen the right arrow to be the up side. If rotate the image again to flip it upside down it works fine.
I was able to replicate the problem more than once.
To me this is two bugs because it didn't do this before:
1). Image is distorted after rotation
2). Initial rotation is being misinterpreted.
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Another interesting thing which makes me even more sure it's a bug. I had some images to rotate where I had to click the right arrow initially to be the up side. I got the distored image and then I hit the refresh button.
This time the image was actually rotated correctly after the refresh. It looks like the problem is when you select the left arrow to be the up side.
I will present a link with to a site where you can see what is happening. Give me a few minutes.
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Well I was only able to replicate it twice and it hasn't happened since. Really weird.
I closed my browser and cleared my temp files/cookies and it hasn't happened to me again so let's put a hold on that one.
But I still don't think that the image should appear distored after the rotation. That wasn't happening before.
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Gallery Server 1.0 modified the name of the file when you rotated the image. Since the browser thought it was requesting a new image, it was an effective technique around the browser cache.
However, that is a rather intrusive - and hacky - way to avoid the browser cache, so I removed the renaming function for version 2. So now you must refresh the page (in some browsers).
You didn't say which browser you are using, but note that Firefox 3 is overly aggressive in its caching, and sometimes hitting F5 doesn't even request a new image (but CTRL-F5 works). This has been blogged about and I consider it a bug. Hopefully they address it in the next release.
The reason the image appears distorted is because the cached image is being constrained - through CSS - to the dimensions of the rotated image. If you dig into it, you will notice the image is not actually distorted on the server.
There is probably a way I can trick the browser into requesting a new image after a rotation. I will add it as a feature request to my list.
Roger Martin
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I use IE 7. I don't use Firefox unless something doesn't work in IE.
Ok, well hopefully it gets fixed in the next release.
Thanks again.
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