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Connor posted
Is there a way to force photos to export as landscape rather than portrait?
Especially given the lat/long and date/time data being displayed, it looks ugly if I simply rotate the photos into landscape mode after export.7 Comments-
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Photo orientation is controlled by the user at the time of capture, so both portrait and landscape will present correctly with the appropriate footer overlay. If the image has been collected using the incorrect orientation there is no capacity to modify this after it has been committed to the database. I would suggest exporting those images that need to be corrected, with the ‘Exclude Footer’ option selected on the export dialogue. This will allow the image to be rotated after export but the footer information will not be available.
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That is the case when using my iphone but not when using my android tablet.
On the tablet, I checked in just the camera app and it is recognising landscape vs portrait but in Konect it is not. Is there a setting I can check on Konect — there does not seem to be one for the camera app itself.-
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Hi Connor, Konect simply reads the EXIF data supplied by the camera application on your device. In your case it appears that the EXIF data is not standard and cannot be interpreted by Konect. There are no settings available in Konect to override this, so I think you will need to use a work around to resolve the issue.
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Thanks for the info John. These are Galaxy Tab A9+ devices, I wouldn’t think anything would be unusual. When I enabled screen rotation (lock was default) it was forcing the photos into landscape mode for me.
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Hi John, thanks again for your earlier help. Is there also a way to increase the text size of the lat/long and photo data info?
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Connor, Konect does not allow modification of the default settings, so no you can’t modify the text size. An alternative for you may be to use an alternative camera driver on the Galaxy Tab. I have implemented this for a number of clients but not specifically for your requirement, but it is related. Some government agencies require the metadata to be stamped on the photo body so that it can’t be removed or edited. Konect only supports the footer annotation that can be removed on export. However, Open Camera which is free, (https://opencamera.org.uk/) can be installed and used as the default camera and this provides many advanced camera functions including setting the text size and style for the metadata that is embedded on the image. This might be of assistance in your case.
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@johnivett got any thoughts on this question?