XnView Classic : Support Read/Write JPEG XL file

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happy666
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XnView Classic : Support Read/Write JPEG XL file

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XnView Classic : Support Read/Write JPEG XL file

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Re: XnView Classic : Support Read/Write JPEG XL file

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Only XnView MP can support JPEG XL
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Re: XnView Classic : Support Read/Write JPEG XL file

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The JPEG-XL format is a non-starter regardless of its other merits if it requires Windows 7 and modern-style applications. It's a bit ambitious for a basic image codec. In the IV "competitor application" they added a 4 MB DLL for this one format about as big as the rest of the application. Not quite the small size and light demands the Cloudinary guys aimed for. There is probably a way to add it to normal XnView with a big DLL.

The "competitor application" and the command-line cjxl.exe djxl.exe tools are the smallest most direct way of dealing with this format from space. I added the command line applications to the audio frontend Frontah.