ImageIO HEIF/AVIF plugin

Requirements

libheif version 1.16+ must be installed on the target system.

Known installations methods

Homebrew (Mac & Linux): brew install libheif
apt (Linux): apt-get install libheif-dev

Features

Decode HEIF and AVIF images

Limitations

HEIC and AVIF animations are not supported. A single image is returned.
Not implemented yet:
- Color profiles
- EXIF and XMP
- Thumbnails

Implementation notes

The panama package bindings were generated using:

jextract 22
from the https://github.com/strukturag/libheif repository, version 1.16.0
based on the heif.f header file