JPEG XL support in PDF / PDFium?

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Helmut Januschka

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Feb 2, 2026, 4:44:25 PM (10 days ago) Feb 2
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Hi PDFium folks,

I’m playing around with adding JXL image support to PDFium (using jxl-rs) and wanted to sanity-check the PDF spec side of things.

I have a small PoC working (mostly following the existing rust PNG code path):
https://www.januschka.com/pdfium-jxl.html 
CL: https://pdfium-review.googlesource.com/c/pdfium/+/142070

Implementation-wise this looks fairly straightforward, but I’m unsure about the standards status:

  • Are there ongoing PDF Association / ISO discussions around this?

  • Has anyone already looked into this in PDFium?

  • how do new pdf things rain into pdfium?

I did see a recent article mentioning that the PDF Association wants to support JPEG XL going forward, but I couldn’t find any concrete draft spec text or timelines yet.

Any pointers would be much appreciated 🙂

cheers,
helmut

Lei Zhang

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Feb 3, 2026, 3:04:24 PM (9 days ago) Feb 3
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Some of this sounds like questions for the PDF Association.

Nobody has filed a feature request for JPEG XL in PDFium yet, but
Brotli support, another upcoming feature, is
https://crbug.com/475855993.
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