XnView Software

I can confirm that after downloading a codec from the microsoft store microsoft photos can open heif files as far as I can tell no write support

yes but libx265 is only in GPL license not LGPL :(


I understand that the GPL is extremely restrictive
to be clear the plugin is read only with no ...

Hum. :)

https://petapixel.com/2017/11/29/zoner-photo-studio-x-brings-heif-support-windows/
yes but they pay perhaps the patent ;)


the latest GIMP added heif import/export support I doubt they payed anyone anything
https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/05/20/gimp-2-10-2-released/#added-support-for ...

I put it in Plugins folder but it doesn't appear on About->Plugins


I can confirm that it does not appear in the about-> plugins window but I did download a few test images from
https://github.com/liuziangexit/HEIF-Utility-Native-DLL/tree/master/Examples
and XnView MP does open them with the ...

tanks
I'm bumping this so we get rpm links on XnView's home page
I used to use the deb packages (converted with alien) under opensuse I didn't even know there wore rpm packages build I was about to suggest it

I just read that a google jpeg encoder has been added to xnview
I'd like to ask for another jpeg encoder MozJPEG (the more the merrier :D )
https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg
I've been using a custom build jpegoptim to re-encode jpegs with mozjpeg and the results are noticeable even a lossless ...