On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:58 PM, mathog wrote:

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Agreed. Obviously I do not think we need Export at all.

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4. Region - self evident. The area could by two points (UL,LR as

here), or point,W,H. This gets rid of the current "export as bitmap" (or whatever it is called), and generalizes it to all supported output formats.

Excuse me, are you proposing to remove the current exporting dialog altogether?

It is worth thinking about.

The "Export PNG Image..." is a special case of the more general "Save as..." I outlined. Most of the features in "Export PNG Image" are good (by selection, by area) but there is no reason this sort of cropped output (essentially) should be restricted to PNG. At least for SUM's "Save" (where "Save" means only to a fully conservative file type) the choice of the SVG filetype makes sense for Inkscape since no other fully conservative format is available. But there is nothing special about PNG. Why not JPG or PDF? Use the general "Save as..." form and the user can pick whichever target format is needed for that particular application.

I'm literally lost for words.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org