PDF Will Support JPEG XL Format As 'Preferred Solution' (theregister.com)
(Monday November 10, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD)
from the specifications-and-standards dept.)
- Reference: 0180030584
- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/10/2230233/pdf-will-support-jpeg-xl-format-as-preferred-solution
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/another_chance_for_jpeg_xl/
The PDF Association is [1]adding JPEG XL (JXL) support to the PDF specification , giving the advanced image format a new path to relevance despite Google's [2]decision to declare it obsolete and remove it from Chromium. The Register reports:
> Peter Wyatt, CTO of the PDF Association, [3]said : "We need to adopt a new image [format] that can support HDR [High Dynamic Range] content ... we have picked JPEG XL as our preferred solution." Wyatt also praised other benefits of JXL including wide gamut images, ultra-high resolution support for images with more than 1 billion pixels, and up to 4099 channels with up to 32 bits per channel.
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> The association is responsible for developing PDF specifications and standards and manages the ISO committee for PDF. [4]JPEG XL is an advanced image format that was designed to be both more efficient and richer in features than JPEG. It was based on a combination of the Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) from Cloudinary and a Google project called PIK, first released in late 2020, and fully standardized in October 2021 as ISO/IEC 18181. There is a reference implementation called libjxl. A second edition of the ISO standard was [5]published in 2024.
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> JXL appeared to have wide industry support, including experimental implementation in Chrome and Chromium, until it was killed by Google in October 2022 and removed from its web browser engine. The company [6]stated that "there is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL." Many in the community disagreed with the decision, including FLIF inventor Jon Sneyers, who perceived it as the outcome of an internal battle between proponents of JXL and a rival format, AVIF. "AVIF proponents within Chrome are essentially being prosecutor, judge and executioner at the same time," he [7]said .
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/another_chance_for_jpeg_xl/
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/10/31/2236220/why-google-is-removing-jpeg-xl-support-from-chrome
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUPSfirHek&t=2284s
[4] https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/
[5] https://www.iso.org/standard/85066.html
[6] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998#comment85
[7] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKcBw219k/m/8zzn4E39BgAJ
> Peter Wyatt, CTO of the PDF Association, [3]said : "We need to adopt a new image [format] that can support HDR [High Dynamic Range] content ... we have picked JPEG XL as our preferred solution." Wyatt also praised other benefits of JXL including wide gamut images, ultra-high resolution support for images with more than 1 billion pixels, and up to 4099 channels with up to 32 bits per channel.
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> The association is responsible for developing PDF specifications and standards and manages the ISO committee for PDF. [4]JPEG XL is an advanced image format that was designed to be both more efficient and richer in features than JPEG. It was based on a combination of the Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) from Cloudinary and a Google project called PIK, first released in late 2020, and fully standardized in October 2021 as ISO/IEC 18181. There is a reference implementation called libjxl. A second edition of the ISO standard was [5]published in 2024.
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> JXL appeared to have wide industry support, including experimental implementation in Chrome and Chromium, until it was killed by Google in October 2022 and removed from its web browser engine. The company [6]stated that "there is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL." Many in the community disagreed with the decision, including FLIF inventor Jon Sneyers, who perceived it as the outcome of an internal battle between proponents of JXL and a rival format, AVIF. "AVIF proponents within Chrome are essentially being prosecutor, judge and executioner at the same time," he [7]said .
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/another_chance_for_jpeg_xl/
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/10/31/2236220/why-google-is-removing-jpeg-xl-support-from-chrome
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUPSfirHek&t=2284s
[4] https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/
[5] https://www.iso.org/standard/85066.html
[6] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998#comment85
[7] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKcBw219k/m/8zzn4E39BgAJ
PDF is run by idiots who don't understand security (Score:2)
by sinkskinkshrieks ( 6952954 )
Look at the history of the PDF spec. Way back, it allowed embedded javascript and ActiveX controls. It has zillions of features and allows almost arbitrary shit.
WEBP is deprecated (Score:3)
JPEG XL is the open standard that replaces it.