P: Support Common Image Formats (EPS, GIF, PDF, BMP etc.)

What doesn't make sense, Lee, is having to use both Lightroom and Bridge to manage the same files. For it to be truly useful, Lightroom needs expanded image file support.

Yes, PNG support +1

Look, I don't care if it's not a photographic file format. That's such a load of youknowwhat. I just want to manage my pictures, including drawings, mangas and screenshots (for which PNG is the only sensible format!) from Lightroom and manage them in a nice an comprehensive catalog.

And even so, PNG is in fact a very nice format to save photos in when it's certain they will be edited at a later stage, purely because PNG is guaranteed lossless. Sure, one can use TIFF, but not nearly all external editors (small and large) support TIFF to its neccesary extend, if at all. JPEG is not a reasonable format for this use case, because of its lossy nature, so that leaves PNG the only choice left. And no wonder as it's the most popular lossless file format on the planet. It's just brilliant (and has been for almost a decade!).

To me it seems completely silly not to support it. It seems Adobe is completely out of their mind to *willingly* not support it, if that's the case. At any rate, even if PNG has some limitations (it doesn't support 32-bit float, but it does do 48-bit integer) it should be usable, because JPEG is definately *more* limited than any format these days, and JPEG is supported perfectly fine. So with that argument, it seems backwards. Why is JPEG even supported in the first place, being such a dreadful format? Right, for exactly the same reason PNG will have to be be supported.

So, come on, Adobe, Lightroom 4.4 must support PNG.

Do all these arguments against supporting all the file types in LR seem just plain dumb to anyone besides me? Or am I lost is some orphan universe?

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Bridge is the hub for the Creative Suite and thus needs to catalog all the formats that can be handled by the Creative Suite.

Library is the hub for Develop (Camera Raw) and thus needs to catalog all the formats that can be handled by Develop (Camera Raw).

The Creative Suite can handle many more types of files than Develop (Camera Raw) can handle. Library is not intended to be a general-purpose Digital Asset Manager and it's not intended to be the hub for the Creative Suite. If that intention changes sometime in the future, then you've got a shot. Until then, I think the request to handle all the files Bridge can handle has no shot outside the plugin universe.

Let's assume that proper software engineering could add additional file format support without negatively impacting performance.

actually -having thought about it I have gone off this idea. It was what make Bridge completely unusable (in CS3). If there's any chance it might confuse LR the same way or slow it down at all Im against it

Yes, this does make perfect sense: "Let the library module catalog all the same formats as Adobe Bridge."

Since I already bought and use Lightroom to manage my photos, it is silly to have to use Bridge, too.

Then I suggest you use Bridge.

@4087053 Jay: I'm sure you're aware, because we've gone over this already in this thread (or perhaps it was another?) where I've explained why the AnyFile plugin is not suitable for my (and other's) needs.