On Thursday 15 April 2010 17:50:20 Alex Trujillo wrote:
Johan, thanks for reading that, I thought it was a particularly inspired part of the proposal, as there are many uses for such a feature, and I can only imagine what current users must go through when they could be making use of that feature.
A Quick Export might be very nice, but also, it might prove problematic if it's not exporting anything other than the entire document; e.g., if selections change. One thing that an artist could do is, on another layer, put a transparent rectangle, and export that. Or, maybe there could be a specified, 'official' export rect within the document, which would be set by selecting an empty, transparent rect within the document, then clicking a button within the Export Pane that would make it stay and be specified as the Quick Export Area.
What about remembering the selection bounding box (and use that later for quick export) when you run the export from dialog?
-- Martin, I believe Inkscape already does this, if I understand the both of you correctly. Once you've saved the document, it will already have the same directory you saved it to selected.
Currently, it works as following:
1. I create a drawing and save it into directory A 2. Then I export the drawing as png into the same directory 3. Then I save the drawing again 4. Then I move the drawing (only svg) to directory B 5. When I open Export Bitmap dialog (and the "Custom" button was selected), it has the correct path to export to directory B (I must have missed this as I always clicked on the "Page" button or it was selected by default) 6. When I click "Page" or "Drawing" (or the dialog was set to one of these when closed) the output filename is reset to point to directory A (as stored in inkscape:export-filename in the svg)
By the way, isn't this a bug?
Also, why to store the whole path in svg if saving to the same directory is desired?
Regards, Martin Sucha