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Hi !
Is there a way to integrate de new JPEG compression algorithm developed by Google (Guetzli) to our little GIMP ?
(03-18-2017, 12:14 PM)pull Wrote: [ -> ]Hi !
Is there a way to integrate de new JPEG compression algorithm developed by Google (Guetzli) to our little GIMP ?

Someone will have to write a plugin and if it is anything like the better-portable-graphics (bpg) only for decoding.

I saw this about it yesterday

“Although Guetzli may be too slow for many practical uses, we hope that it can show direction for future image format design.” ®

see: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/17/...algorithm/
Something they don't say about Guetzli is if it can be used as a "storage" format and not just for show. "Storage" implies that if can be edited further...