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Re: rotating a rectangular image in Gimp



On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:53:02PM -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote:
> 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.

Well, merely for rotation, I would also request you to try imagemagick
convert.

convert image.png -rotate 90 image_rotated.png

Though, of course, you might have a reason to use Gimp.

HTH.

Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah,
458, Jamuna Hostel,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600 036

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