The following image formats are currently supported by the Chasys
Draw IES suite. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and that support for additional formats can be added by installing
the appropriate plug-in via the plug-in manager:
Format
Description
Support
.cd5
Chasys Draw IES Image
Read/Write
.bmp / .dib / .rle /.ptr
Bitmap Image, Windows and OS/2, including OS/2 bitmap arrays, icons and pointers
Read/Write
.jpg
JPEG/JFIF Image, plus EXIF data, plus 12-bit JPEG and 16-bit JPEG (extended color depth) (see Note 8)
Scalable Vector Graphics (partial support); including SVGZ (compressed)
Read
.avi
Audio/Video interleaved; short duration
Read/Write
.mpg / .wmv / .mp4 / et. al.
Movies/Videos; short duration with the option of selecting a clip (see Note 4)
Read
The following digital camera RAW formats are currently supported via the Camera RAW plug-in. Please note that this list is not exhaustive:
Format
Description
.dng
Adobe Digital Negative
.crw
Canon Photo RAW CRW
.cr2
Canon Photo RAW CR2/CIFF
.cr3
Canon Photo RAW CR3/C-RAW
.raf
FUJI Photo RAW
.nef
Nikon Electronic Format
.nrw
Nikon Electronic Format
.orf
Olympus RAW File
.srf
Sony RAW File
.sr2
Sony RAW Image
.arw
Sony Digital Camera Image
.rw2
Panasonic Photo RAW
.raw
Panasonic/Casio RAW
.pef
Pentax Photo RAW
.ptx
Pentax Photo RAW
.k25
Kodak Photo RAW
.kdc
Kodak Photo RAW
.dcr
Kodak Photo RAW
.mrw
Minolta Photo RAW
.erf
Epson Photo RAW
.3fr
Hasselblad Photo RAW
.mos
CREO/Leaf Photo RAW
.srw
Samsung RAW Image
.rwl
Leica RAW Image
.x3f
Sigma Foveon X3 RAW
.iiq
Phase One RAW Image
.bay
Casio RAW Image
.fff
Hasselblad RAW Image
.mef
Mamiya RAW Image
.mfw
Mamiya RAW Image
Note #1:
Animated PNG in this instance refers to the popular APNG specification by Mozilla, not the relatively unpopular MNG specification by the PNG Development Group.
Note #2:
Requires the Windows Imaging Component (WIC). WIC is included by default on Windows 7 and above. For Windows XP, WIC is included in SP3, and may be downloaded as a stand-alone component for SP2.
Note #3:
Requires the presence of either (1) video codecs for H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC and AOMedia AV1,
or (2) the HEIF and HEVC
extensions from Microsoft, or internal implementations of these codecs that are pre-packaged with some versions of Chasys Draw IES.
A third-party WIC extension for the same may also be used (at the risk or reduced functionality). Internal implementations of these codecs may have reduced features or performance,
but will suffice in most use-cases. The File Associations utility will indicate which codecs are required if any.
Note #4:
Loading of videos is dependent on the video codecs that are available on your computer. Chasys Draw IES will generally load any video format that you have a codec for.
Note #5:
JPEG-XL is still under development and has known issues. As a result of one of these issues, large images cannot be saved in the JPEG-XL format.
I also strongly recommend against converting important images to JPEG-XL.
Note #6:
JNG and MNG are rarely used (failed) standards that are only supported for the purpose of migration, and that should not be used for new files.
Please consider converting all existing copies to other formats.
Note #7:
Some of the more complex and rarely used features of the MNG standard have been intentionally left out of this implementation. Most files should work fine, though.
Note #8:
Extended color depth JPEG files with 12-bit and 16-bit samples per channel are supported, but only for read. Write operations will always output a standard 8-bit JPEG file.
Adding More Formats
You can add support for more file formats by installing additional file format plug-ins. If you are comfortable with software development, you can also create your own as described in the Software Development Kit.