rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

[PETER EASTHOPE <peasthope@shaw.ca>]

Folk,

To rotate a rectangular image by 90 degrees 
in Gimp, I followed these steps.
* Expand the canvas to a square containing the image, centered.
* Rotate 90 degrees.
* Contract the canvas to the boundary of the image.
If I just rotate without changing the canvas, the 
image is cropped.

Does anyone have a way to achieve the rotation 
in one step?  As trivial a problem as this is, 
I didn't see it mentioned in the Web based manual.

Thanks for any ideas,       ... Peter E.


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