Document EXIF image rotation

* doc/lispref/display.texi (ImageMagick Images): Mention EXIF rotation.

diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi
index 323895927a9933c18521f5a3e62833eb6620f704..1ba91235759e2d0af20c2344743c1c6076bf0c9a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi
@@ -5205,7 +5205,9 @@ when the image does not have an associated file name, to provide a
 hint to ImageMagick to help it detect the image type.
 
 @item :rotation @var{angle}
-Specifies a rotation angle in degrees.
+Specifies a rotation angle in degrees.  If no rotation is explicitly
+specified, and the @acronym{EXIF} headers specify a rotation, the
+rotation from the @acronym{EXIF} headers are used instead.
 
 @item :index @var{frame}
 @c Doesn't work: http://debbugs.gnu.org/7978

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 70f9476e71e216ae59856cd32d10e08080c61198..c1338680541b7234859607e76d52a195142d1ab3 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -633,6 +633,10 @@ character-folds into STRING.
 text in the region.  The search engine to use for this is specified by
 the customizable variable `eww-search-prefix'.
 
++++
+*** Images that have rotation specified in the EXIF headers are now
+automatically rotated (if displayed as ImageMagick images).
+
 +++
 *** Query-replace history is enhanced.
 When query-replace reads the FROM string from the minibuffer, typing