Tichau / FileConverter

File Converter is a very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress files using the context menu in windows explorer.
https://file-converter.io/
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Scripting Interface / Custom Conversion / Extension or Plugins #477

Open shefben opened 2 months ago

shefben commented 2 months ago

Adding a scriptable interface or some type of extension/plugin API would help make this tool inconceivably valuable.

The only things that need to be exposed (as far as I can see) would be:

  1. the file with full filepath
  2. the program that should convert the file (with path and parameters)
  3. output path

With that, anyone could create any custom conversions they would need.

This tool is excellent, but just think about how many different conversions people could make themselves if this was an option!

The reason I believe this is needed is due to the fact that I still need to rely on a lot of those sketchy free conversion websites for things like icon to svg.