[digiKam-users] Thumbnails are in Progessive Graphics File (PGF)

[Gilles Caulier]

Le mer. 29 janv. 2020 à 05:55, Rafael Linux <rafael.linux.user at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> I didn't know about PGF and how Digikam stores image thumbnails, but after
> reading about that format, I think it's a very , at the moment of writing
> this post, that PGF choice was a wise choice. In fact, I can't understand
> why this format was not adopted as the standard for web images by W3C,
> cause
> it have even multiple resolution representation and progressive
> transmission!!! I can't believe this format exist 20 years ago and is not
> being used by most of GNU/GPL image manipulation software.
>
> I expect this 2020 year finally AVIF (AV1 image format) will give us a
> final
> version to have a perfect format to store images.
>

Exactly. But Google, Apple, Microsoft prefer to buy code/license or
re-invent the rules instead to promote and use a free software which do
already the job...

Best

Gilles

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