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What is .webp exactly (reddthat.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Webp images can be a pain in the ass to work with because many programs don't support them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this a Windows thing I'm too Linux to understand?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I have had a number of webp issues on Linux. Support is nowhere near as bad as it was several years ago, but I still have a few programs that don't work with webp.

I would imagine it's a much bigger mess on windows since so many programs will have their own image processing libraries.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Which programs don't support webp exactly?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In my case, Illustrator and XD, which I use a lot. One of the best features of XD is the ability to drag and drop images into placeholders but I can't do that with webp. In Illustrator, importing a webp file crashes the app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

For a program costing US$22.99/mo crashing and not accepting webp, which is so abundant, is extrem. Especially crashing for such an expensive program is not acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Illustrator supports webp for a couple years now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Must be on my end then. I tried opening one just now and it still crashes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If it's supported, then it doesn't work. Photoshop also fails to open web the last time I tried it earlier this year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Also, some sites don't recognise webp images when I'm trying to upload those. Like, it's literally made for web, wtf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Last week, I tried to send a picture using QSSTV and it wouldn't open the webp image I saved from a website, so I had to convert it first.
Up until last year, Libreoffice didn't support webp and many Linux distros haven't updated to the version that supports it yet.

Even GIMP and ImageMagick didn't support it for quite a while. Before they supported it, it was almost impossible to do anything with webp.