HEIF image files

Date: 2023/04/21 (initial publish), 2023/05/27 (last update)

Source: en/note-00041.md

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High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF)

High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is used by iPhone with its file extension .HEIC.

Here are tips to cope with HEIF image files on Debian.

HEIF to JPEG conversion

You can convert a HEIF image file to JPEG by installing libheif-examples package.

$ heif-convert foo.HEIF foo.JPEG

Eye of GNOME Image Viewer

Eye of GNOME Image Viewer (eog package) can support to display HEIF image files by installing heif-gdk-pixbuf package.

GIMP

GIMP supports HEIF image files using libheif1 package.

Shotwell

Shotwell 0.30 in Debian/bookworm doesn’t support HEIF image files.

Install Shotwell 0.32.1 or newer flatpack package from Gnome upstream.

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