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  1. Bug #2042857
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 2042857

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Cepheid (cepheid) wrote :

At least on my computer, I think the source of the problem is not in GIMP, because it also effects other viewers and even imgmagick.

I have a bash script for mass conversion of jpg to heic. This shell script uses "heif-enc" and after the upgrade to Lubuntu 23.10, it's still working like before.

However, when I want to use imgmagick to display the heic file, it's not working.
display test.heic
=> nothing is happening. Imgmagick doesn't show the file. The same behaviour for gThumb, Geeqie, LXimage, GIMP

Only Eye of Mate (EOM) succeeds in displaying the photo. I think the interesting question would be: How is EOM different to these other graphics programs?
I suspect that EOM has built-in HEIC support while the others are using the generic library.

I also suspect that somehow the HEIC file type is not properly registered any more after the upgrade to Lubuntu 23.10