Respect Exif orientation in LaTeX, Docx, ODT output #10386
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Transforms images based on exif metadata
The desired size of the final image in the docx output wants to be based on the rotated dimensions, not the original dimensions, but then we have to set the extents of the image object based on the original aspect ratio, so we have to swap those dimensions back. An earlier iteration of this diff added the swapping to imageSize, but I thought better of it. rotatedDesiredSizeInPoints is a new function because T.P.ImageSize is in the public API and I didn't want to create an API break.
Extensive experimentation with LibreOffice 24.8.3.2 on Mac didn't come up with a way to create an ODT with an image that is displayed uncropped, at the correct aspect ratio, with the correct size of bounding box, after rotating 90° or 270°, while anchored "as character". As of this commit, if the EXIF orientation says an image needs to be quarter-rotated, the solution chosen has a bounding box the original, unrotated size of the image, which displays the image correctly rotated and with the correct aspect ratio, but cropped. It is unknown to this author if this looks correct in other software than LibreOffice. Pandoc doesn't currently pull in any dependencies capable of rotating the actual pixels in image data. Document authors needing to mitigate this issue will have to edit their images themselves.
Ordinarily the LaTeX writer doesn't really need to get the bytes of the images it's including, but we have to check them to get an EXIF orientation. If the media fetch fails we're just punting and assuming a default orientation. It would be slightly dubious to bother doing this at all but LaTeX is the default format for PDF output so it's worth making the effort.
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This branch uses EXIF orientation metadata in image files to affect the output of images in Docx, ODT, and LaTeX writers. Addresses #10311 for these three writers only.
Having worked on this for a few days I am a bit dubious that this in scope for Pandoc. On the one hand, it's probably somewhat common for users to encounter images with a flipped/rotated orientation, given the behavior smartphone cameras and so on, and common to not know what's going on or how to fix it when you generate a PDF with Pandoc. On the other hand, the problem has to be addressed in a specific way for each output format and the results can questionable.
The LaTeX case is particularly bad here, I think. For one thing, it introduces a need to read the image bytes in the LaTeX writer where it was previously unnecessary, and so I'm just ignoring all
fetchItemexceptions and defaulting to no rotation. There's also no necessary relationship between the environment wherepandocis being run and the environment where LaTeX is being run: if someone has a rotatedfoo.jpgin their working directory when they run pandoc, then they execute LaTeX in a directory with an unrotatedfoo.jpg, have we done the right thing or not?In the ODT case, there's no good-looking solution available without actually rotating the pixels of the image data. See the commit message for cc73c01.
I think the approach here is more or less reasonable but I don't wholeheartedly endorse it.
Incidentally, typst natively respects EXIF orientation, seemingly by actually rotating and flipping the pixels, see here