Bug 472398

Summary:	Request: Affinity Photo file format
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kimageformats	Reporter:	Suchender <Jan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Alex Merry <alex.merry>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid, caulier.gilles, kdelibs-bugs-null, mircomir
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Suchender 2023-07-19 14:09:01 UTC

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DigiKam has become my new Lightroom! Excellent features. Just one thing is missing.
Full support for Affinity Photo file format. 
As many others, I moved away from Adobe. But now my photo database does not support my new picture manipulating software.

I would appreciate to see that coming one day.

Best regards!

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2023-07-19 14:30:34 UTC

As indicated in wikipedia, this format is proprietary :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_Photo

So chance to see this format supported in open source is near to zero.

I move this file to KImageFormat codecs collection, in case of...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 Mirco Miranda 2024-10-02 19:36:10 UTC

I did a bit of research but couldn't find anything about the format specifications.

Comment 3 Mirco Miranda 2024-11-22 05:58:03 UTC

Specifications needed

Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2024-12-07 03:46:21 UTC

🐛🧹 ⚠️ This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information, then set the bug status to REPORTED. If there is no change for at least 30 days, it will be automatically closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

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Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2024-12-22 03:46:58 UTC

🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.