On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 16:28 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
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.)
Yes...
I think pretty much the way it should break down is Save As for everything sufficiently vectory, and then the current Export bitmap option for any raster formats. Simple's good.
We might also eventually want an option for saving vector excerpts of the current file, too (like only the objects in the current selection and the gradients etc they depend on) but that's pretty much it.
-mental