Webp Exporting

[phyce]

Hello, is webp exporting possible? If not, is this something in the works?

It's becoming a real nuissance...

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @phyce.

The subject has been discussed here on numerous occasions.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=webp&sortby=newest

[phyce]

So the devs mentioned about implementing exporting webp in 2015, but still no signs of it.

How long can it take? Will it happen in our lifetime?

[Old Bruce]

4 hours ago, phyce said:

How long can it take? Will it happen in our lifetime?

I have learned over the years (decades) that if a feature is not present in a piece of software I am best served by thinking it will never be added. I then immediatly search for a solution elsewhere rather than waiting and hoping.

[phyce]

For sure! Finding the solution elsewhere is inevitable in a situation like this. But I believe that letting the developers know that a feature is wanted by people will hopefully motivate them to get that feature done sooner.

[phyce]

Considering that reading webp files already works, maybe using a little bit of inspiration from GIMP source code which does have this feature, I can't imagine this taking too long to implement. 

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

I can imagine this feature would save a lot of time to a lot of people.

Back to using GIMP for now...

Edited August 21, 2022 by phyce
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[Medical Officer Bones]

In the meantime the latest 5.1 release of Krita added extended Webp support with every option under the sun

[phyce]

Thank you for that! It's great, that's actually an even better solution than GIMP. Also open source! More code inspiration for the devs 

 

[PaulEC]

Until webp (and other formats like BMP) are supported by Affinity, one of the easiest ways to get them is to use Irfanview or XNConvert (both free). If you need to process a number of files, rather than converting them one at a time, just do a batch conversion.

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, PaulEC said:

use Irfanview or XNConvert (both free)

It’s worth noting that IrfanView is only free for non-commercial (i.e. personal or educational) use. However, the licence fee was just ten euros the last time I checked.

[Medical Officer Bones]

8 hours ago, Alfred said:

It’s worth noting that IrfanView is only free for non-commercial (i.e. personal or educational) use. However, the licence fee was just ten euros the last time I checked.

Irfanview! The one piece of software that I have installed since Windows 95 times. Still use it every day, and it has excellent batch processing.

[phyce]

I love irfanview. I mostly use it as an image viewer though. Glad to hear that there's actually other people out there who love it as well, I don't think I actually know any people who use it.

[timint]

It's oct 2022, all web browser supports webp and PageSpeed Insights recommends it.

It's time to add webp support.
https://caniuse.com/?search=webp

[phyce]

On 10/31/2022 at 11:23 PM, timint said:

It's oct 2022, all web browser supports webp and PageSpeed Insights recommends it.

It's time to add webp support.
https://caniuse.com/?search=webp

Couldn't agree more, pagespeed has been recommending it for a long while now.

[stefano.cecere]

for me, just for the complete WebP export, it is worth to upgrade to v2.0