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HEIF image format support

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Message #89 received at 51381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51381: HEIF image format support
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 07:10:42 -0700

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Is HEIF an "obscure format"?

I'm not sure.  Adoption seems to be picking up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format#Support

> Outside of Mac users -- very.  (And on Mac, the OS displays all the
> images.)

But note that interoperability with Mac (and iOS, where you explicitly
have to turn HEIF off if you don't want it) is pretty important even to
GNU/Linux users.

But I also don't see it as a major problem (just a small one) if we give
it a year or three to see if this format really starts to really pick up.

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