Add ability to read Jpeg XL (.jxl)

[tom95521]

PTE is amazing that it can already import many image formats including HEIC and AVIF.

Jpeg XL is an improved open source version of jpeg with higher quality and smaller file sizes. Many photo editors like Nitro (Mac), Acorn (Mac), RapidRAW, Luminar, ON1, Photoshop 26.8, and Affinity can export jpeg xl .jxl files.

The software is available for Pascal.

https://github.com/Xelitan/JPEG-XL-encoder-decoder-in-pure-Pascal-for-Free-Pascal-Delphi-Lazarus

Thanks,
Tom

 

[Igor]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the suggestion.
We already reached partial support for JPEG-XL in the internal code, but we’ve faced with a challenge: JPEG-XL standard natively supports extended color spaces without the use of color profiles. We're currently investigating the best way to implement this support.

By the way, regarding Apple and iPhone. They use a non-standard version of JPEG-XL. In fact it's RAW data packed as JPEG-XL data inside a .dng file container.