glycin

Glycin allows to load, edit, and create images as well as read metadata. The decoding happens in sandboxed modular image loaders and editors making it safe and extendable.

Use Glycin

Glycin supports GObject introspection, which allows the C library libglycin to be used from several programming languages. Since glycin is written in Rust, it is also available as native Rust crate.

• C
• GJS
• Python
• Rust

Supported Image Formats

These are the image formats supported by the loaders developed by the glycin project itself.

Animated PNG image – image/apng

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: png (Rust)

• ✔ ICC Profile
• ✔ CICP
• ✔ Exif
• ✔ XMP
• ✔ Animation

AVIF image – image/avif (.avif)

Loader: glycin-heif, codec: libheif (C++)

• ✔ ICC Profile
• ✔ CICP
• ✔ Exif
• 🗙 XMP
• ✔ Animation

Creator: glycin-heif

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8

Windows BMP image – image/bmp (.bmp)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image (Rust)

• 🗙 ICC Profile

Creator: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8
• ✔ GA8
• ✔ G8

GIF image – image/gif (.gif)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: gif (Rust)

• ✔ XMP
• ✔ Animation

Creator: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8

HEIF image – image/heif (.heic)

Loader: glycin-heif, codec: libheif (C++)

• ✔ ICC Profile
• ✔ CICP
• ✔ Exif
• 🗙 XMP
• ✔ Animation

Creator: glycin-heif

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8

JPEG-2000 JP2 image – image/jp2

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: hayro-jpeg2000 (Rust)

• 🗙 ICC Profile
• 🗙 Exif
• 🗙 XMP

JPEG image – image/jpeg (.jpg)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: zune-jpeg (Rust)

• ✔ ICC Profile
• ✔ Exif
• ✔ XMP

Editor: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ Clip
• ✔ Rotate

Creator: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ RGB8
• ✔ G8
• ✔ CMYK8

JPEG XL image – image/jxl (.jxl)

Loader: glycin-jxl, codec: libjxl (C++)

• ✔ ICC Profile
• ✔ CICP
• ✔ Exif
• 🗙 XMP
• 🗙 Animation

• The loader for this format depends on GPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

Creator: glycin-jxl

• ✔ RGB8

PNG image – image/png (.png)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: png (Rust)

• ✔ ICC Profile
• ✔ CICP
• ✔ Exif
• ✔ XMP

Editor: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ Clip
• ✔ Rotate

Creator: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8
• ✔ RGB16
• ✔ RGBA16
• ✔ GA8
• ✔ G8
• ✔ GA16
• ✔ G16

Quite OK Image Format – image/qoi (.qoi)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: qoi (Rust)

Creator: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8

SVG image – image/svg+xml

Loader: glycin-svg, codec: librsvg (C/Rust)

• 🗙 ICC Profile
• 🗙 XMP

Compressed SVG image – image/svg+xml-compressed

Loader: glycin-svg, codec: librsvg (C/Rust)

• 🗙 ICC Profile
• 🗙 XMP

TIFF image – image/tiff (.tiff)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: tiff (Rust)

• ✔ ICC Profile
• 🗙 CICP
• ✔ Exif
• ✔ XMP

Creator: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8
• ✔ RGB16
• ✔ RGBA16
• ✔ RGB32Float
• ✔ RGBA32Float
• ✔ CMYK16
• ✔ CMYK8
• ✔ CMYKA8

Windows icon – image/vnd.microsoft.icon (.ico)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image (Rust), , codec: bmp (Rust), , codec: png (Rust)

Creator: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8
• ✔ RGB16
• ✔ RGBA16
• ✔ GA8
• ✔ G8
• ✔ GA16
• ✔ G16

image/vnd.ms-dds type – image/vnd.ms-dds

Loader: glycin-image-rs

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

image/vnd.radiance type – image/vnd.radiance

Loader: glycin-image-rs

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

WebP image – image/webp (.webp)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image-webp (Rust)

• ✔ ICC Profile
• ✔ CICP
• ✔ Exif
• ✔ XMP
• ✔ Animation

Creator: glycin-libwebp-editor

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8

Adobe DNG negative – image/x-adobe-dng

Loader: glycin-raw, codec: libopenraw (Rust)

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

• Support for this format is still experimental the corresponding loader is not built by default
• The loader for this format depends on LGPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

Canon CR2 raw image – image/x-canon-cr2

Loader: glycin-raw, codec: libopenraw (Rust)

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

• Support for this format is still experimental the corresponding loader is not built by default
• The loader for this format depends on LGPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

image/x-epson-erf type – image/x-epson-erf

Loader: glycin-raw, codec: libopenraw (Rust)

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

• Support for this format is still experimental the corresponding loader is not built by default
• The loader for this format depends on LGPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

EXR image – image/x-exr (.exr)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: exr (Rust)

• 🗙 ICC Profile
• 🗙 XMP

Creator: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ RGB32Float
• ✔ RGBA32Float

Minolta MRW raw image – image/x-minolta-mrw

Loader: glycin-raw, codec: libopenraw (Rust)

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

• Support for this format is still experimental the corresponding loader is not built by default
• The loader for this format depends on LGPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

Olympus ORF raw image – image/x-olympus-orf

Loader: glycin-raw, codec: libopenraw (Rust)

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

• Support for this format is still experimental the corresponding loader is not built by default
• The loader for this format depends on LGPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

Panasonic raw image – image/x-panasonic-rw

Loader: glycin-raw, codec: libopenraw (Rust)

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

• Support for this format is still experimental the corresponding loader is not built by default
• The loader for this format depends on LGPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

Panasonic raw image – image/x-panasonic-rw2

Loader: glycin-raw, codec: libopenraw (Rust)

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

• Support for this format is still experimental the corresponding loader is not built by default
• The loader for this format depends on LGPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

Pentax PEF raw image – image/x-pentax-pef

Loader: glycin-raw, codec: libopenraw (Rust)

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

• Support for this format is still experimental the corresponding loader is not built by default
• The loader for this format depends on LGPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

PNM image – image/x-portable-anymap

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image (Rust)

PBM image – image/x-portable-bitmap

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image (Rust)

PGM image – image/x-portable-graymap

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image (Rust)

PPM image – image/x-portable-pixmap

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image (Rust)

Sony SRF raw image – image/x-sony-srf

Loader: glycin-raw, codec: libopenraw (Rust)

• 🯄 ICC Profile
• 🯄 CICP
• 🯄 Exif
• 🯄 XMP
• 🯄 Animation

• Support for this format is still experimental the corresponding loader is not built by default
• The loader for this format depends on LGPL-3.0-or-later licenced software

TGA image – image/x-tga (.tga)

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image (Rust)

Creator: glycin-image-rs

• ✔ RGBA8
• ✔ RGB8
• ✔ GA8
• ✔ G8

Windows cursor – image/x-win-bitmap

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image (Rust), , codec: bmp (Rust), , codec: png (Rust)

XBM image – image/x-xbitmap

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image-extras (Rust)

XPM image – image/x-xpixmap

Loader: glycin-image-rs, codec: image-extras (Rust)