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HEIF image format support

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Message #112 received at 51381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
 Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 51381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51381: HEIF image format support
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:53:25 +0000

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 01:02:28PM +0000, Alan Third wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 05:13:17PM +0100, Alan Third wrote:
> > 
> > FWIW NSImage (on macOS) is already capable of loading an heic file, if
> > we just point it to it. I thought all we needed to do is add heic to
> > ns_can_use_native_image_api in nsimage.m and then load an image with
> > the type of "heic" or whatever, but it doesn't work and I'm not sure
> > what else I need to do. Probably define heic as a type elsewhere.
> 
> Patch attached. I'm not entirely sure this won't break anything, so
> testing on a platform that already supports heif files would probably
> be a good idea.
> 
> It doesn't support any of the interesting features of heif, for
> example it doesn't allow you to view multiple images (like an animated
> gif), but I have a suspicion the IM/GM code won't support that anyway,
> so no great loss.

Since nobody complained I've pushed this to master.
-- 
Alan Third

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