Using rotate for images leads to blank pdf with pdfkit - node.js

Question

I have asked the question on the repository directly, but in my experience SO is more reactive.
Hey there,
I am trying to create a pdf from photos using pdfkit.
Depending on whether an image is in landscape or portait mode, I want to turn the image around.
This basically means the following (in typescript) :
function toPostscriptPoint(mm: number) {
return mm * 2.8346456693;
}
const document = new PDFDocument({
size: [toPostscriptPoint(156), toPostscriptPoint(106)],
});
document.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('output.pdf'));
document.save();
document.rotate(90);
document.image(
'photos/sample.jpeg',
{ width: toPostscriptPoint(150), fit: [toPostscriptPoint(150), toPostscriptPoint(100)] });
document.restore();
document.end();
What happens though is that the pdf renders completely white. I do see however that something is happening, because the pdf has the size of the input image.
Is rotation for images not supported? What would be possible alternatives? I would like to avoid having to rewrite my files before putting them in the pdf.
Thanks

Answer 1

Alright, after investigation, I can answer my own question :).
I could see that the images were in the pdf somehow because of the size of the file so I dived deeper.
What happened was that the image was rendered out of the viewport. This was due to multiple things:
By default, the origin of a page after rotation in pdfkit is the center of the page! ( See the doc for more info)
The origin is rotated together with the transformation.
The x and y in the image method are actually inverted.
So after getting all this right, the following code shows the image as expected :
function toPostscriptPoint(mm: number) {
return mm * 2.8346456693;
}
const document = new PDFDocument({
size: [toPostscriptPoint(156), toPostscriptPoint(106)],
});
document.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('output.pdf'));
document.save();
document.rotate(90, {origin : [0, 0]});
document.image(
'photos/sample.jpeg',
toPostscriptPoint(0),
toPostscriptPoint(-150),
{ width: toPostscriptPoint(150), height: toPostscriptPoint(100) });
document.restore();
document.end();
Note the :
origin argument in the rotation
toPostscriptPoint(-150) actually takes into account the position of the origin, and corresponds to the X axis.
Hope that helps some later on :).

Answer 2

Its because taking picture from camera , if picture ISO is less than 100 it will be automatically rotated , take picture with iso more than or equal to 100 to avoid autorotation.