[KevinH]

You are confusing Sigil with the QtWebEngineWidget that Sigil uses in its Preview mode. This widget is basically a wrapper around the Chrome browser engine and is not controlled by Sigil code. Since Chrome 81, recognizing EXIF data and properly orienting it is built in. You can use svg to wrap and rotate an image but Sigil itself has no way to change the QtWebEngine source code. You would have to ask Qt for a way to disable that if one exists.

As I said earlier, Sigil has no code for directly reading or manipulating image exif code. And since Sigil handles it properly, why on earth would we want a way to disable that.

Again, use a third party image editor that can properly transform the image and then remove the exif data if needed. ImageMagick may help.

I believe there are css rotate transforms you may be able to apply but they would need to be restricted to work for ADE and KDP. Your best bet is probably to strip the exif, and transform (rotate) the image.