#50927: port request: 'FLIF' (Free Lossless Image Format) ----------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: kurt.pfeifle@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: request | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Keywords: | Port: ----------------------------+-------------------------------- FLIF is the ''"Free Lossless Image Format"''. "FLIF outperforms PNG, FFV1, lossless WebP, lossless BPG and lossless JPEG2000 in terms of compression ratio." "Moreover, FLIF supports a form of progressive interlacing (essentially a generalization/improvement of PNG's Adam7) which means that any prefix (e.g. partial download) of a compressed file can be used as a reasonable lossy encoding of the entire image." "FLIF does away with knowing what image format performs the best at any given task." "You are supposed to know that PNG works well for line art, but not for photographs. For regular photographs where some quality loss is acceptable, JPEG can be used, but for medical images you may want to use lossless JPEG 2000. And so on. It can be tricky for non-technical end- users." "More recent formats like WebP and BPG do not solve this problem, since they still have their strengths and weaknesses." "FLIF works well on any kind of image, so the end-user does not need to try different algorithms and parameters." "FLIF beats anything else in all categories." '''Sources:''' https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF.git '''More info:''' http://flif.info/index.html -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/50927> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X