65009 - Composer: support pasting clipboard images and conversion of BMP's to JPG/PNG

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 63952

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, defect)

Description

[David Hallowell]

By default Windows does not appear to come with any tools to convert Windows
bitmaps (.bmp) to compressed image formats that are supported by web browsers
(gif/png/jpg). Netscape Composer 4.x had a useful feature where you could paste
an image from the clipboard into a document and it would convert it into a JPEG
image for you.

1. Take a screemshot (Ctrl-Printscreen)
2. Start composer
3. Paste into composer

Actual results (Mozilla):
Nothing happens

Expected results (and results of 4.x):
Dialog pops up to ask what format you wanted it converted to (jpeg is the only
option on 4.x but we could also offer PNG in Mozilla) then asks questions
related to that image format (e.g. what level of quality do you want the JPG)

(Not in 4.x but would be useful) Asks what name you'd like to save the image as
rather than using a default.

This feature could also be added to the Insert Image feature so if you have a
.bmp on your disk you can get mozilla to convert it into a format recognised by
the browser.

NOTE: whatever you do don't allow mozilla to display GIF images inline, we don't
want to be giving people ideas of using that format on the web :)

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Pasting clipboard images into composer is bug 63952, but I don't know if 
there's already a bug for converting image files.

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

I think it's really a duplicate.  Pasting an image is doing an image conversion 
(at least that is how it worked in 4.x).  I think there is an even older bug to 
duplicate this bug to but I can't find it right now.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63952 ***

Comment 3

[Diego]

Verified dupe of bug 63952: "Should be able to paste images into composer"

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

The Image Conversion Library component is going away.