On 28 nov. 05, at 17:28, Alan Horkan wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Ted Gould wrote:
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:44:38 -0800 From: Ted Gould <ted@...11...> To: jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> Cc: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [inkscape-devel] Re: save choices
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 12:22 +0100, jiho wrote:
3/ I found the Open/Save As/ menus not optimal.
I've always thought we should move towards:
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[Long list of high level menu items]
Although the logical seperation proposed is nice in some ways the downside is further overcrowding of the File menu. Also it means the drop down Type menu in the Save dialog (Inkscape SVG, Plain SVG, etc) would be remarkably empty and sparsely populated. More balance seems better.
I would suggest far less seperation (I'm unsure even if no seperation at all is such a bad idea and wouldn't rule it out). Inkscape could at aleast use Save and Save As for the Vector formats which should be lossless (at least in theory and I expect it would be the long term goal to correct any loss) namemly SVG, SVGZ, INKJAR, EPS, PS, PDF, DXF and others. (Also I think this is more like what others are doing.)
The point of the export menu is that these formats are not lossless: - all of them loose at least inkscape specific preferences (grid, metadata and such) - some of them (EPS and PS for example) loose more than that: transparency is not preserved for example. so gradients using transparency (the default gradient in inkscape) will not work.
There is more to it than that but I did say I'd try and be more succint and that is the main thing I wanted to say.
Maybe a middle ground could be found: Open opens all vector documents (using input extensions if needed) and bitmap files. I don't bitmaps in here because it's confusing for the vector/bitmap difference but I can understand that from a user point of view it will be difficult to understand that he has to open an empty document and import the bitmap afterwards... though that's what illustrator does if I remember well. maybe insights on how others do will be interesting. Save saves current document with current name as Inkscape SVG/SVGZ (depending on current document). ask for a name only if the document is new. Save As saves as Inkscape SVG/SVGZ asking for a new name. The newly created document becomes the new one Import imports bitmap or vector files into current document. Export opens a tabbed window which allows bitmap export in one tab and vector export in the other. when the functionality will be present for vector export. the two tabs could share the "selection", "drawing", "page" and such buttons.
what about this?
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