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

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January 19, 2012
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Feature request: Please add Lightroom support for common Adobe publishing and Web image formats, such as EPS, AI, PDF, GIF, and PNG.

Many of us use Lightroom to manage client images in NEF, JPG, PSD and other formats. But the clients' associated images, which are used on their Websites and in their logos and publications, are invisible to Lightroom. If Adobe Bridge can display these other image formats, why can't Lightroom?

Even if Lightroom did not provide direct editing support for these other image formats, it would still be extremely useful if Lightroom could catalog and display them.

It would also elevate Lightroom from being "just" a photo editor into the realm of being a true Digital Asset Manager (DAM). Now that Lightroom includes basic video support - isn't it time to support all the common image formats that our other CS applications use?

Please vote for, as well as reply to, this request if you would also like to see Lightroom support these additional common image formats...

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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I absolutely agree with Jay Gunn on this, "let the library module catalog all the same formats as Adobe Bridge." That makes perfect sense. I still do the bulk of my comprehensive editing and clean-up work in Photoshop whereas I use Lightroom extensively for basic RAW file manipulation, cropping and cataloging. It is absolutely a maddening pain in the neck that I can't store my PNG files in the same library for comparison, quick access and use. I reiterate Jay's thought, "let the library module catalog all the same formats as Adobe Bridge."

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PhilipTobiasAuthor

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Thanks, Simon, for voting for more comprehensive file format support.

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PhilipTobiasAuthor

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Since many of us have already found the AnyFile plugin insufficient for our needs, it would be better for Adobe to listen to its users. And provide more comprehensive file format support.

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Lee Jay

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"Better yet, let the library module catalog all the same formats as Adobe Bridge. "

Since the chances of that are remote, I suggest you look into using the AnyFile plugin.

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SimDC

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As you point it I already know that .
I have voted for inclusion of other formats in a lot of threads,
even begged for a placeholder (like LR did for video in previous versions).
What I was showing is that png read support is already there ...
may I write the !!! in bold ! 😉

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8BitCerberus

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@129856: That's not what we're asking for, and surely you know this. We want PNG support in the library module. Send them to Photoshop or Fireworks for editing, don't much care to edit them in Lightroom, I just want to be able to catalog them, and GIFs, and PDFs. Better yet, let the library module catalog all the same formats as Adobe Bridge.

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SimDC

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PNG support is already included
in LR print module
as you can import very large png files
in Watermarking or Identity Plate !!!

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PhilipTobiasAuthor

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Thanks, Tibor, for yet another vote.

Keep the votes coming, folks. Maybe someday Adobe will get a clue that this feature is needed - by many of us.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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Export PNG need... JPEG is fail...

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PhilipTobiasAuthor

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Thank you, Julian, for adding yet another vote.

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