{"id":29006,"date":"2020-05-21T16:54:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29006"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T20:52:36","slug":"heic-and-the-college-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/21\/heic-and-the-college-board\/","title":{"rendered":"HEIC and the College Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/5\/20\/21262302\/ap-test-fail-iphone-photos-glitch-email-college-board-jpeg-heic\">Monica Chin<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reckless\/status\/1263189070878040067\">Nilay Patel<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/5\/20\/21262302\/ap-test-fail-iphone-photos-glitch-email-college-board-jpeg-heic\">\n<p>Nick Bryner, a high school senior in Los Angeles, had just completed his AP English Literature and Composition test last week. But when he snapped a photo of a written answer with his iPhone and attempted to upload it to the testing portal, it stopped responding.<\/p>\n<p>The website got stuck on the loading screen until Bryner&rsquo;s time ran out. Bryner failed the test.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[The] testing portal doesn&rsquo;t support the default format on iOS devices and some newer Android phones, HEIC files. HEIC files are smaller than JPEGs and other formats, thus allowing you to store a lot more photos on an iPhone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I like HEIC because overall it saves me lots of storage space on my iPhone and Mac. But it&rsquo;s a shame it isn&rsquo;t more widely supported.<\/p>\n<p>Even Lightroom seems to only <a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/lightroom-cc\/kb\/heic-files-support.html\">partially support<\/a> it. It treats HEIC files like RAW images and maintains a huge <tt>Adobe Camera Raw 2<\/tt> cache folder of the ones that it has recently converted so that it can work with them.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/image-capture-heif-conversion-padding\/\">Image Capture HEIF Conversion Padding<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/20\/ios-heic-performance\/\">iOS HEIC Performance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/macos-10-13-4\/\">macOS 10.13.4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"heic-and-the-college-board-update-2020-05-22\">Update (2020-05-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/05\/21\/take-a-heic-make-sure-ap-and-other-test-uploads-work-from-your-iphone-and-ipad\/\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/05\/21\/take-a-heic-make-sure-ap-and-other-test-uploads-work-from-your-iphone-and-ipad\/\">\n<p>The College Board says that 1 percent of students experienced problems, which means that, if they are representing the failure rate accurately, only tens of thousands will have to retake their tests.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, it would behoove Apple to contribute resources to upgrading open-source image-processing libraries so HEIC could be supported as easily as other, more common image formats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica Chin (via Nilay Patel): Nick Bryner, a high school senior in Los Angeles, had just completed his AP English Literature and Composition test last week. But when he snapped a photo of a written answer with his iPhone and attempted to upload it to the testing portal, it stopped responding. 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