Phew is an open-source FLIF image viewer and QuickLook plugin for macOS.
The Free Lossless Image Format or FLIF is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG, lossless JPEG2000, and lossless JPEG XR in terms of compression ratio.
Phew can open and display FLIF images, and can export them as PNG, TIFF, BMP or raw pixel data. If the accompanying QuickLook Plug-In is installed, FLIF images show thumbnails and previews in the Finder and Spotlight just like regular images.
Animated FLIF images are currently not supported.
- Download Phew 1.0 (Intel 64-bit, macOS 10.10 or later, ~1.7 MB)
- Sample FLIF images
The Phew source code contains the FLIFImage class, which is an Objective-C wrapper to easily read images in the FLIF format via libflif. This class is available via CocoaPods. See below for further info.
Phew is also available through Homebrew Caskroom
brew cask install phew
FLIFImage is an Objective-C wrapper to easily read images in the FLIF format via libflif, the official FLIF reference decoder implementation. You can install via CocoaPods.
FLIFImage exposes the following class methods:
+ (BOOL)isFLIFImageAtPath:(NSString *)path;
+ (BOOL)isFLIFImageData:(NSData *)data;
+ (NSImage *)imageFromFileAtPath:(NSString *)path;
+ (CGImageRef)newCGImageFromFileAtPath:(NSString *)path;
+ (NSImage *)imageFromData:(NSData *)data;
+ (CGImageRef)newCGImageFromData:(NSData *)data;
Those calling newCGImage* methods are responsible for releasing the returned CGImageRef.
Phew uses libflif, which is distributed under the
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 3 or later. Phew itself is also open source software, available under the three-clause BSD license:
Copyright (c) 2017, Sveinbjorn Thordarson <sveinbjorn@sveinbjorn.org>
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