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Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

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669 points danso | 1 comments | 20 May 20 19:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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IvanK_net ◴[21 May 20 17:55 UTC] No.23262092[source]▶
I am 100% on the side of the school. Unlike with JPEG, everybody who wants to work with HEIC should pay licence fees. Also, HEIC is like 50x more complex than JPEG.

I hope the world will never get to a point, where each phone brand stores photos in their own format, and you need a special software from the phone manufacturer to view the photos (that is what we have now with raw photography formats, and what we used to have in the past with phone chargers).

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1. tiglionabbit ◴[21 May 20 19:13 UTC] No.23263507[source]▶
"Wants to work with" doesn't apply here. This is what the phone does by default, so it's not a conscious choice of the user. Also, if the college had written the `accepts` field on their form correctly it would have been converted to JPG automatically when they uploaded it.