On 2008-March-19 , at 06:08 , Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art wrote:
Aaron Spike wrote:
I propose:
Save/Save As...: Saves the current file as Inkscape SVG or SVGZ. No other options are given because all other options would be lossy.
Agreed - didn't think about plain SVG being lossy, but it is for Inkscape.
Save a Copy...: Saves the current file under another name without changing the name of the current document. Again only SVG or SVGZ.
Agreed - however, I think this can easily be worked into the export dialog as I explained previously - just open the dialog preset with the current file type options. But the menu title and key command should remain as they are, since they already exist and are expected as such.
Again, if SVG/SVGZ is present in the export dialog (which it should), this would just duplicate functionality with no added bonus don't you think?
Export...: User may choose from a number of lossy formats, vector and bitmap, with all of the various options for selecting areas etc.
Agreed. I would still like to see a "Save incremental copy" option, even if not in the menu at least as a key command, which would do the same as the "Save a copy" option - except that it doesn't open the dialog and saves a copy according the the incremental copy rules in the export or doc prefs dialog, wherever makes most sense.
I think this should ultimately replace "Save a copy" and show a standard save dialog except for some buttons which insert placeholder syntax. However I don't see is how it is possible, usability wise, to have a command that does not open a dialog (while I agree with Joshua that this would be very nice). Indeed, if the prefs for the name format are in Inkscape general preferences and that the menu command just saves the file according to those, with no user interaction, the user cannot figure out how it actually works the first time he uses it: Bad. If the prefs are in the save dialog, together with a checkbox [Do not show this dialog in the future] it will make it impossible to change them easily afterwards: Bad. So we'll need to make a clumsy workaround like something in the general prefs which says: [Show the incremental save dialog again]: Bad too. The only possibility I see, which is very suboptimal though, it to have the prefs for the name in Inscape general prefs (or on a per document basis even) and to artificially show a small progress bar when saving, with a message and a button pointing to where the prefs are. This means slowing down artificially an otherwise quick process which, again, is probably suboptimal (to say the least). Anyone with ideas? (On the other hand, having that in the export dialog make it possible to keep it open at all time and just click [Export] to save a new copy :-P Yes, I am kind of single-minded --if that's the right expression and if it is not too pejorative in English)
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