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PhilipTobias
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January 19, 2012
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P: Support Common Image Formats (EPS, GIF, PDF, BMP etc.)

  • 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
    Inspiring
    March 11, 2012
    Are there any plans to make it possible to import pdf files, view them and embed metadata in the same way as you can with other images in Lightroom?

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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
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    March 5, 2012
    Thank you for yet another vote for this feature request, Dino.

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    March 5, 2012
    Just voted for it too. Hopefully this comes to fruition!
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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
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    February 8, 2012
    Thank you for your vote, Peter.

    Yes, a preference panel that allows each person to specify which files types to support, would be a nice refinement.

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    flashXplorer
    flashXplorer
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    February 8, 2012
    Just voted to support this idea of your's Philip :-)
    - w my extra suggestion for e prefs panel to choose which format to support.
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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
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    February 8, 2012
    Thank you, Simon, for voting to add support for more of the common file types we use all the time.
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    Digital-Finger
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    February 7, 2012
    OK- I voted;)
    Mac OS Sonoma, 64 GB RAM 27" 2019 iMac 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
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    February 7, 2012
    Thank you, Royal, for your hearty agreement that additional file support would make Lightroom an ever better product.

    Now let's encourage everyone to VOTE for this feature request.

    Regards. ...pt
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2012
    Phil I'm with you on this. Lightrooms inability to access png files is a big, big drawback. I like the program a lot. It's wonderful in conjunction with Photoshop but it would sure be a lot more user friendly (for me personally) if I were able to access the png "parts" files that I create in Photoshop each and every day.

    I can't remember if you said i, or another, but i concur, "Adobe is shooting itself in the foot" insofar as photographers using Lightroom as their DAM when Lightroom can't even access many of the images (or parts of images) used in their work. It just doesn't make sense out here in the real world.
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    Digital-Finger
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    February 6, 2012
    My point really was the Bridge simply did not work in one version, (on my system - and on quite a few other people's) it was as frustrating as blazes. I would just hate to have that happen in LR. Thanks for the reassurances:)
    Mac OS Sonoma, 64 GB RAM 27" 2019 iMac 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
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