Hi, thanks for your response. And let me apologise for demanding features without contributing any myself; I'm doing some more of that below:
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:37 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 9/1/05, Gavin Band <gavinband@...663...> wrote:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~gband/shift_class_classification.svg
it's impossible to zoom out so one can see the whole picture at once.
Well, as you understand, we must have some minimum limit to zoom, and no matter how far it is, there will be documents so large that you can't zoom out far enough. So, what do you propose? Unlimited zoom-out is impossible.
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Is there some compelling technical reason for this? From a user's point of view, this seems like an unnecessary restriction - one expects to be able to zoom out as far as one wants (until, say, the picture appears as a single pixel on the screen).
Can't "Export bitmap" be turned into "Export", offering a choice of bitmaps, and remembering the chosen filename?
"Export bitmap" has a lot of bitmap-specific options, so I don't think we can combine it easily with vector export. However I do agree that "Save as" is not the most logical place to look up for EPS export. Perhaps we should separate that into an "Export vector" command.
That's true. It seems to have a top section for choosing what part of the picture to export; and a bottom section including dpi and resolution boxes (and on my machine, the "Height" part seems to be greyed out).
Why not have a further section for file type, and grey out the resolution boxes if they are not relevant?
Or have a sequence of two or three dialogs: first box: choose area of screen to export; second box: a standard "save as" dialog with the usual browser; third box: filetype-specific settings.
Then in future one could export as jpeg, or tiff, or pdf, or something else all from the same dialog sequence, rather than have "export as ..." for all the different file types one might want.
(I suppose I'm thinking of the GIMP, it has "Save as..." and "Save a copy" and in both cases one first chooses the filename and then, depending on filetype, is are presented with a dialog asking for filetype-specific options.)
Thanks, gav.