[Dropped] Unwanted image rotation

[Asiedydd]

When I insert portrait (vertical) images, they immediately revert to landscape (horizontal). Then, there's no way to rotate them to the correct orientation.

This is version 4.1.11 in windows 10. This never once happened in windows 7.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[FJCC]

Which part of OpenOffice are you using (Writer, Impress, Calc) and how are you inserting the images?

[Hagar Delest]

It sounds like a Writer issue.
It means that your viewer on your machine automatically rotates the pictures when AOO just imports it. You can resave the file in a picture editor but with the correct orientation. Or you can import it in Draw first and then rotate it in Draw and copy and paste it in Writer.

Note: LibreOffice can rotate pictures in Writer. See also [Tutorial] Considering a Switch from OpenOffice to LibreOffice? Some Useful Information.

Please add [Solved] at the beginning of the title in your first post (top of the topic) with the 🖉 button if your issue has been fixed.

[Asiedydd]

Sorry, this is in Writer. The images in question were created in portrait and any editing saves them in portrait (because they already are). I tried it by dropping into the document and inserting with the same results.

These are for large reports with huge amounts of images. I can't imagine having to open each one in an editor and save it as portrait when it is already portrait. They open as portrait in any other software and viewer. I plugged in an old desktop with Windows 7 and the same images insert into a Writer document as portrait just fine.

Thank you.

[Hagar Delest]

Try LibreOffice, with a portable version, just to check if it does better.
It may be a regression with the latest versions of AOO.

[keme]

Not sure that it is related, but I have seen similar symptoms on a different platform when images in a "high efficiency" format are uploaded. It seems that some image format filters misinterpret (or ignore) the orientation information in the image file. Apple devices have defaulted to HEIF (HEIC) for photos for some time now.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/116944
https://myschoolapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-g ... -an-iPhone

[MrProgrammer]

Apple devices have defaulted to HEIF (HEIC) for photos for some time now.

With OpenOffice 4.1.7 on MacOS 13.6 Writer's Insert → Picture → From File will not import HEIC files because they are grey in the dialog. Drag and Drop of an HEIC image from Finder into Writer creates a section with unreadable content because Writer doesn't understand HEIC/HEIF.

These are for large reports with huge amounts of images. I can't imagine having to open each one in an editor and save it as portrait when it is already portrait.

Perhaps PicTool for Writer can help you. I have no personal experience with that extension but I see there are a few dozen topics in the forum for it. Otherwise I think we need you to attach an image demonstrating the difficulty so we can see the behavior on our systems and perhaps identify the cause. I will not help further unless you attach an image.

If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit ☐ button and add [Solved] to the start of the Subject field. Select the green checkmark icon at the same time.

[Bill]

The images are probably saved in landscape and an EXIF orientation tag is used to tell viewers to display in portrait. Unfortunately, Writer will display the images in landscape because the EXIF orientation tag is not supported by Writer. Other viewers which support the tag rotate the image to portrait.

Pictures taken in Portrait orientation turn upon import