Yes, this is exactly what I'm taking about! This is the way to show that png is the best format for export (if it is).
No see how much more compelling a case this is for png than just leaving jpeg unsupported and passing the buck to other programs for conversion. This is true benefit, serving the user useful information they can use to make their own decisions.
Correct if wrong, but isn't most of the time taken in Inkscape to *save* the png rather than create it? If you're not writing it to disk, it should be quite fast, no?
Thanks Mark, for pointing this out this feature. :) -C
On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Mark Schafer <mschafer@...2596...> wrote:
One of my most used paint programs (Ulead Photoimpact - now Corel) has an excellent exporter that calculates the file size as you change settings for jpg, png, gif. Its super useful when I am exporting to attach to an email or when I need to know the data transfer overhead for a webpage (say).
It looks like this (in part):
http://i65.tinypic.com/2zqszkj.jpg
This suggests that its not impossible to calculate the size before saving. Of course this tool is way over the top for what is being suggested. A simple slider for jpg quality would suffice.
On 2/18/2017 6:39 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2017, 10:27:32 CET schrieb LucaDC: Guessing the size of the PNG in advance is most likely next to impossible. And given how long a PNG export takes it's not really feasible to do one every time the export dialog is shown just to gather the file size.
Tobias
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