This is simply not true. GIMP has been able to open jp2 files for
quite some time.

It simply means that you're missing jp2 filetype from your GIMP build.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:26 AM Adrian Midgley via gimp-user-list <
gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote:

> That's a JPEG2000 format image.
> It allows larger colour depth and lossless compression, compared to JPEG.
>
> Gimp up to 9.2 couldn't open them.  I doubt 2.10 can.
>
> You can convert them to JPG or probably to TIF and those are both openable.
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, 22:34 mlorenzo2408, <for...@gimpusers.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to load a JP2 image from the USGS.
> > from the metaviewer i have:
> > BitsPerSample 8 8 8
> > Photo.ColorSpace sRGB
> > From image properties:
> > Size in pixels: 6963 X 8854 pixels
> > Color Space: Grayscale
> > Number of layers: 1
> >
> > There is a color image there, it shows in qgis.  How do i get gimp to
> load
> > the
> > color image?
> >
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