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[Image Resizer] Offer option to encode images to another format (image converter)

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#2,686 opened on May 5, 2020

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Hello,

I took a look at the image resizer feature and found it really interesting, but I was wondering if it could also encode to another format. There are times when you have a bunch of png images that you want to convert to png, to have a lighter file, with or without a resize of the image. I think it could be interesting to add this option. It could simply be a drop list added when you create a new format size, with encode to : [Keep format, png, jpg ...]

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Explore the Image Resizer codebase to understand how image processing is implemented, then add a format selection dropdown in the resize dialog and implement encoding using System.Drawing or a similar API.
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