Preview has difficulties with rotating EXIF rotated JPEGs

Ave!
I've been searching a lot here about this problem, but didn't found anything, so I decided to post here my bugreport.
If you are watching EXIF rotated JPEG images with Preview (e.g. your digital camera automatically rotates them) everything is OK, they are displayed in the correct orientation. But if you want to rotate them - well, then they don't act as the should.
Here is a sample video:
http://lka.hu/other/x/preview-rotate-bug.mov
Here are this pictures:
http://www.freeweb.hu/gk-lka/index.php?dir=GALLERY/Vegyes/Rotate_test
Their name reflects the angle which they have been rotated with.
Please (please!) correct this issue in the upcoming 10.5.3 release of OS X Leopard!

To start with, this isn't where you let Apple know about bugs. The proper place is the Bug Reporter, you access it by joining Apple Developer Connection. You can do it out here:
http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/
There was a bug report on the Tiger version of Preview which I filed last year, it was a bit convoluted, but also involved rotation. I received a notice when they fixed it, with the release of Leopard. Here's the thread where the problem was discussed:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1111412
I just checked with a photo from my Canon digital camera, that had the orientation tag set to portait. As expected, opening with Preview displayed it in portrait view. I then rotated 90 and saved. It opened back up in Preview in landscape. Safari (which doesn't read rotation metadata) also displayed it in landscape, as did PS Elements, meaning that the rotation was applied to actual pixels, rather than just changing the metadata orientation tag. I then rotated it to 180, so it was in portrait, but upside down, and saved. It displayed upside down in Preview, Safari and Elements. Is this what you mean about a "bug"? Namely, that the rotation is actually being applied to the pixels, rather than just changing the metadata tag? If so, I'm not sure that it is a bug, or if that's the way Preview works now.
Francine
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