On 4/14/10, Alex Trujillo wrote:
I noticed nobody replied to my earlier message,
I'm sorry about that :(
What I want to do is, well, to enhance the export system of Inkscape, make it more intuitive and integrated by merging the Export As and Save As dialogs together into a single pane, with selection features that were developed for the bitmap exporter also being able to work with vector export / saving.
Um, we sort of had an agreement, or at least an understanding :) that we want to further separate export from saving.
Saving should be possible only for file formats we can reliably open, edit and save back. The rest is exporting. That makes:
File > Save -- to just save an SVG, Plain SVG of Clean SVG File > Save As > same, but save under a different name File > Save a Copy > same, create a new file from current document without opening it File > Export > all the EPS, PDF and so on
But it needs doing.
However, what also needs doing is having more file formats available in the exporting dialog. E.g. exporting selections to SVG, EPS and PDF is still one of quite popular request from what I remember. And of course some people are missing exporting to TIFF.
Alexandre