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Compress images during upload
a lot of our users upload screen shots (size of 1-2 monitors in FullHD) as Bitmaps, resulting in file size of >2MiB.
During upload, all "uncompressed" image formats should be automatically compressed, e.g. as PNG or JPG.

If the user needs to upload "uncompressed" file, he can still zip the file before uploading it (as zip).
Optionally, this should be offered to the user (e.g. per checkbox on "edit" page next to "Browse" button), so that this "zipping" will be done during upload (or after upload on server).
As an alternative, the checkbox could also control "compress uploaded images" and will be "true" by default, depends on what is main use case (upload uncompressed or compressed).
ID
359
Category
User Interface
  Issue Edit
Author
Heuer, Boris
Date Created
9/9/2013 12:25:03 PM
Date Updated
12/3/2013 6:45:09 AM
Status
Implemented
Score
10
Promoted By
Heuer, Boris
Comments
Kirill Bondar  Staff  9/11/2013 10:39:57 AM
I guess all this stuff is needed only to cover the case of BMP, as other formats are well compressed anyway. It means we can unconditionally compress BMP's to PNGs as PNG supports all of BMP features but the data is compressed.
Kirill Bondar  Staff  12/3/2013 6:45:09 AM
We are now auto-compressing BMPs into PNGs. Since PNG is lossless image format there should be no degrade in image quality.
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