How to open Apple heic picture files in Puppy Linux
A relative in Florida USA sent me a picture from their Apple iphone.
The file had an HEIC extension name and I could not see how to view it.
(I couldn't find a previous forum entry about this.)
A certain cellphone maker has changed their default format
of taking pictures to HEIF (.HEIC, High Efficiency Image File Format)
(Note: the "heic" at the end of an Apple file name seems to be upper case.)
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Comments on current state of HEIC format in the non Apple world:
As of September 2022, no web browser supports HEIC format natively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Effi ... ile_Format
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install libheif-examples using the Puppy package manager:
(search for libheif-examples with Puppy package manager in puppy-fossa64:
This installs the libheif-convert utility in: /usr/bin/heif-convert
USAGE:
/usr/bin/heif-convert [-q quality 0..100] <filename> <output>
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example of then converting one HEIC Apple file:
in a Puppy terminal, enter the conversion command:
heif-convert -q 100 /tmp/Apple_picture_file.HEIC /tmp/Apple_picture_file.jpg
File contains 1 images
Written to /tmp/Apple_picture_file.jpg
The thus converted jpg file will display as usual in Puppy Linux.
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the above suggestions are from: https://askubuntu.com/questions/958355/ ... ficiency-i
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Other more skilled Puppy forum members might build on this to convert and display HEIC files
using mtpaint, etc in a little script.
( ubuntu seem to use Eye of GNOME, GNOME Image Viewer, etc.)
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And I include the following for completeness:
How to open Apple HEIC files on Windows:
by Dale Fox published June 23, 2022
HEIC is the file format Apple uses for photos taken on iPhones and iPads,
rather than the regular JPG format used by most other devices.
As such, Windows isn't able to recognize HEIC files by default.
However, it's easy to download and install a plugin from the
Microsoft Store to let you PC open HEIC files.
Once you've installed the HEIC plugin for Windows, opening iPhone
or iPad images on your PC will be as simple as opening regular photos.
What's more, you can even convert HEIC images to JPEG using Microsoft Paint.
The above is from: https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to ... on-windows
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