What would be very useful for bitmap export (and the same is true for creating bitmap copy) is an additional dialog box like the one of Xara whith the following infos :
True colour + alpha True colour 256 colour 16 colour 2 colour
I will not detail here the other settings options in Xara dialog box which of course are of great use also.
ivan
________________________________ De : Alex Trujillo <cryptoquick@...400...> À : Inkscape Devel List Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Envoyé le : Mer 14 avril 2010, 1 h 15 min 32 s Objet : [Inkscape-devel] GSoC Entry - Inkscape Export Pane
Hey folks; I had submitted a second proposal last Friday, and though I was very busy this weekend, I now have found the time to ask for input on the new one.
I noticed nobody replied to my earlier message, so I'll just reintroduce myself. I've been using Inkscape for years, and have done a fair amount of work in it. This alone doesn't qualify me for application to the GSoC, so I'll just leave this link to Nanoblok, a project I've worked on for quite some time, to demonstrate my ability to write JavaScript: http://code.google.com/p/nanoblok/
I know Inkscape has the capability to use JavaScript extensions, and I've noticed a couple of files written in that language in the source, but I most likely won't be using that when working with what I want to do, and I recognize this.
What I want to do is, well, to enhance the export system of Inkscape, make it more intuitive and integrated by merging the Export As and Save As dialogs together into a single pane, with selection features that were developed for the bitmap exporter also being able to work with vector export / saving.
One problem with the current system this would solve is that Save As might make the user feel they can reload using that format and not lose anything, whereas the only original document with all their settings and information would be an Inkscape SVG. So, by labeling all other formats, both bitmap and vector, as Export, and placing them under a single dialog, there is less confusion, as well as the opportunity to more easily add additional formats and functionality.
This is all illustrated and detailed here, in the following public Google Doc: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcePN-K69iVuZDI2ajlmYl85MzM2Yzg1Y2pkOA&...
At any rate, let me know what you think of this!
- Alex