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

Bridge is essentially a folder browser tool that happens to be able to broker requests from other apps. So, in that respect it is completely unlike Lightroom.

Thanks, Geoff, Fred, and other recent responders.

Please keep voting for Lightroom to include support for additional file formats. That capability would make Lightroom even more useful (and expand its market potential - are you listening, Adobe?).

As has already been discussed, one way to implement this would be through a preference setting, where users could check boxes for their desired formats. Each user could include the image formats they most need.

Regards. ...pt

For newsroom and webroom systems, Lightroom would be great.
But TGA and PNG files can't be read it.
TV Stations tend to have a lot of TGA files.
I'd really like to alter and catalog them with Lightroom.
It would be ideal.

Now that CS6 is going to recognize (and perhaps even partly interact with) stereo photograph formats such as JPS and PNS, Lightroom should do the same.

You might want to take the time to read the site, and all the responses, before guessing about who reads it and what action might be taken.

Let us INCLUDE at least the most common digital camera raw file formats too.

This can be done so easily, any manufacture could just upload them to an online repository, given how Adobe already has sufficient cloud space to provide them these tiny files or they forge an alliance to provide them.

Fastpictureviewer.com codec pack v3.1 supports raw file formats for 45+ Raw Image formats and 380+ digital camera models in just 22.8 MB! So what makes it difficult for Adobe to provide support for their own file formats, like DNG Codec v6.6 to display thumbnail previews in Windows 7 32/64 bit systems?

Even Microsoft has failed to demonstrate adequate adaption of current industry standards, with their own (lame) camera codec pack.

Link: www.microsoft.com/download/en/details...

Must everyone need a dozen different photo viewers and a dozen different media players just to view photos and videos? This doesn't even contend with ODF, DOCX, XML or PDF/WPS compatibility issues, as everyone would and will experience.

Even Lightroom LR4 when exporting v6.6 DNG photos will NOT be viewable by the Windows operating system basic programs such as Windows Explorer and Windows Photo Viewer, since Adobe only provided DNG Codec as v5.6!

This isn't even rocket science, it's only a matter of coordination before releasing their own product into the market by insuring it functions on that platform (operating system). But, I seriously doubt anyone at Adobe will read any of these comments.

It's all for "show"... The real way to get exposure is to put up your own web site, and get it syndicated by the media. So everyone joins in on the boycott as a measure of getting satisfaction?

Consider "Outlook's broken—Let's fix it" (www.fixoutlook.org ) or “Fixing Windows 8′′ (www.fixingwindows8.com ). These sites kindly show there is a need to fix the product, but fail to get satisfaction since both do not take any steps like boycotting the failure until reformed or fixed.

Gandhi had liberated India from the Crown of England, without having fire single shot. But it seems in this present development nobody wants to expect higher standards, certainly not in their leaders, as evidence of the usurper in office.

Yes, abivia.net, the sort of time-wasting workaround you cited is why many of us would benefit from additional image format support - right in Lightroom.

I hope you and others continue to vote for this. ...pt

Thanks, Splatigan (and Dan) for your support of having Lightroom manage PDF image files. I hope you have both voted for this feature request.

By the way, for people interested in cataloging and managing PDF text documents, applications like DevonThink and Eagle Filer are worth a look.

But with Adobe supporting PDFs in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, FrameMaker, and so on, it makes sense to add some support to Lightroom, too.

Regards. ...pt

I'll settle for PNG export, which should be dead simple. Photoshop uses APNG extensively so it's not like they aren't familiar with the format.

Every time I want a PNG, I have to export as TIFF, fire up GIMP (an open source photo editor) and save. Every time I use GIMP, I wonder how Darktable (an open source version of Lightroom) is coming along.

One of these days I'll be able to save time by using free software instead, and that's not good for Adobe.

I had an idea for those who have lots of PDF files and would like a similar cataloger function like which Lightroom provides.

You could have a collection of pdf files, but when each is clicked on you get a grid view of the pages, similar to the grid view you get in the Library module. You could switch between grid and loupe views.

It would also let you add other images/pages to the pdf (like adding to target collections) and also remove images. You would need to confirm changes for the pdf to be updated.

I have seen that Acrobat could do this but I feel that if Lightroom could be programed to at least have this minimal functionality as well as its inherent library it would be an added bonus to the whole package,

Thanks

Jon