On 24-01-12 19:53, Ivan Louette wrote:
I persist to think that allowing to unify all kind of bitmap creation settings could be a great facility ! In Xara (the commercial version) exporting bitmaps and creating bitmap copies have exactly the same dialog box. I used it a lot in the past and that's fantastic for productivity for example when you must create lots of small bitmaps for brushes or scattering.
Completely agree, this part is totally fantastic.
About background opacifying two filters do it : Flatten transparency and Fill Background (the latter even allows to fill background with an image).
But what I would see in Inkscape is a true "quick area resterizing" which could work with or without transparency. But this kind of "area capture" could be done also as an instant bitmap conversion of a clipped or masked area (however at the moment this isn't possible with Mask because of the SVG1 alpha problem) The two in one Clip and rasterize would be a very productive feature !
I understand, but why does this need to remove transparency and/or add a background that wasn't even there? What's the use case? In the end, if you or others feel it's necessary to have this extra option, fine. I just suspect that it might really be something else that's wanted, that's why I'm asking about this.