Support HEIF and HEIC File formats

[asjones987]

I may be too early, but i would be great if nomacs supported HEIF and HEIC file formats (some reading shows Apple's HEIC is a bit different than just HEIF for images.

I am sure you have already looked into this and I am confused on the licensing but some things indicate that for free/open source software it may not be an issue vs commercial software.

Really I would like to read and write HEIF/HEIC. If the standard really took off now that Apple is pushing it (I am not an Apple person) then I would want to batch convert old pictures just to save space and make them easier to move around.

https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/

https://github.com/nokiatech/heif

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

http://jpgtoheif.com/

.... and it also supports animated images aka like what animated GIF does

[diemmarkus]

thanks for reporting. I did play around with the nokiatech/heif repo here. However, I could not figure out how to decode images yet. Actually I am missing a good how-to/documentation in their repo...

best,
markus

[asjones987]

Side note I saw that ImageMagick supports the HEEIC format https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick

[diemmarkus]

we'll try this Qt plugin (since it seems to take longer for Qt to support it officially).

[diemmarkus]

done. the next nomacs will be shipped with (rudimentary) heic support. Ubuntu users can get heic support with their current install:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jakar/qt-heif
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install qt-heif-image-plugin

best,
markus