I haven&#39;t looked at the code, or tried it, but this is an excellent feature.<div><br></div><div>I assume that it also works for relative paths that are outside the document&#39;s path (eg paths like ../website/images, which is a real-life use-case for me), and that absolute paths are left intact (eg /myimages/ doesn&#39;t get turned into ../../../../myimages)?</div>

<div><br></div><div> - Bryan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59, Craig Marshall <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:craig9@...400...">craig9@...400...</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

Hi,<br>
<br>
I&#39;ve written some codethat makes the export dialog leave out the<br>
directory when exporting a drawing or an object, defaulting to just<br>
the png filename (patch attached).<br>
<br>
This is for two reasons:<br>
<br>
1) Since the export path defaults to the SVG directory anyway, this<br>
will a) not change anyone&#39;s workflow, but b) will reduce work when you<br>
inevitably move your files around. If relative paths are an option, is<br>
there a good reason why they are not the default option? I suppose<br>
it&#39;s conceivable that people always export all pngs to a certain fixed<br>
folder that is nothing to do with the SVG directory, but then you have<br>
to type that in anyway, so this doesn&#39;t harm that use case at all.<br>
<br>
2) I didn&#39;t even know that relative paths worked until about a week<br>
ago*, so I have to assume that at least some others don&#39;t know about<br>
it either. This patch helps to advertise to users that it is even<br>
possible, and saves them some work!<br>
<br>
If you accept this code, please look at it very carefully, I am just a<br>
novice at these things.<br>
<br>
Craig<br>
<br>
* I have manually updated the export path in this dialog when my files<br>
need to be moved (at least once per file, depending on that jobs<br>
status, which seems to be unavoidable in my workflow), I dont even<br>
want to think how many hours I&#39;ve spent doing this unnecessarily.<br>
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