LibreOffice Finally Adding Support For The WebP Image Format

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LibreOffice Finally Adding Support For The WebP Image Format

This week marked the release of LibreOffice 7.3 but already for LibreOffice 7.4 coming at the end of summer is a change many users will enjoy: the open-source office suite has finally decided to support the WebP image format...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LibreOffice-WebP

[tildearrow]

That's a very long time for an office suite, but I guess it didn't matter to many people (most use .png and .jpg) so they decided to take this long....

[FireBurn]

Finally!!!

[Mathias]

I'd standardize new codecs in odf pretty quickly and integrate decoding support quite fast but only allow saving them in odf years later. I'd wait 3-5 years after Libreoffice supports for instance Jpegxl or AVIF decoding to allow to embed them into the documents.
Producing documents compatible with older versions is very important IMO.

[uid313]

Isn't WebP on the way out and soon forgotten now that there is AVIF?

[oiaohm]

Isn't WebP on the way out and soon forgotten now that there is AVIF?

Something to remember is libreoffice supports lot of old document formats because national archives still need to read them.

Microsoft Word for DOS that current libreoffice supports opening is a document format 1983 and that is not even the oldest format Libreoffice supports.

[cl333r]

Isn't WebP on the way out and soon forgotten now that there is AVIF?

IMHO WebP is here to stay for a very long time, also IIRC WebP2 is on the way.
WebP 1.0 provides anything you need - lossy, lossless, animation, alpha, good compression, good/easy/modern API to work with, all browsers support it and whatnot. If anything - jpeg, png and gif have to die.

[baka0815]

Couldn't they just increate the version of the Open Document format? 1.4 now supports WebP or something?

[Mar2ck]

Can't wait for AVIF/JpegXL support in 2030

[uid313]

IMHO WebP is here to stay for a very long time, also IIRC WebP2 is on the way.
WebP 1.0 provides anything you need - lossy, lossless, animation, alpha, good compression, good/easy/modern API to work with, all browsers support it and whatnot. If anything - jpeg, png and gif have to die.

But WebP failed to get much adoption, it didn't take off, and then came AVIF and does it better.