I cut and pasted a photo on a Layout sheet. When exported as a PDF, the photo shows upside down. Why is that?
Thank you.
Share the LayOut file so we can see what you’ve got.
If the photo has been rotated without resampling, like in Windows Photos, LayOut or the PDF exporter or your PDF viewer may not respect the rotation. This happens often with photos taken with a phone.
Here is the link for the Layout file and the exported PDF, in the last two sheets, the photos came out horizontal.
The last photos were taken with my cellular. I am not sure about the other ones.
Yes. I see they are exported rotated 90° but not upside down as you initially reported. I expect @Anssi is on the right track and the images need to be resampled in their correctly rotated state. You could do that with an image editor like Photoshop, GIMP, or PaintDotNet.
Image number 22. In your LO file it has been rotated and scaled strangley. I rotated it back to it’s normal orientation and opened it in PaintDotNet. I made a minor change to the image there and saved it. It shows up with the correct orientation in the PDF now.
This is from your PDF.
And after resampling the image and exporting, my PDF.
Thank you Dave.
Just to understand the logic behind it. On the LO file, picture 22 is horizontal, and on the PDF, it shows the right way (?)
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No. I rotated the image back to its original orientation in the LO file. (Look at the little gizmo in the center of the image when it is selected.)Then I opened the image in the image editor and made a very slight change to it so that it would definitely get saved. When I went back to LayOut the image was automatically oriented correctly and exports correctly. If the images had been dealt with in the image editor before inserting into LO no changes would be needed. I’m just showing how to repair what you’ve already got.
With all that, it does seem like LO ought to export images with the rotation set. Maybe @adam has some input.