Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and Uniconvertor
This is off topic, but the original topic seems to have expired a few
replies back, anyway. This is surprising:
"> Inkscape isn't ever going to export to jpeg."
Really? When I was first starting to learn how to use Inkscape, I ask why a
feature meant to export PNGs was called Export Bitmap (and not "Export
PNG"). (As a newb, I had overlooked it, because I thought it meant "export
BMP"!) The answer I was given (and that I've repeated to others) is that
Export Bitmap is called that, because eventually more "bitmap" (raster)
formats will be exportable from there, in the future, and specifically, JPG
was mentioned as an example. Of course, this was a few or maybe several
years ago, and I'd never be able to find that topic and who told me that.
But still, I've been thinking JPG exports would happen some day.
Is this something that's changed, over the years? Or was that just plain
inaccurate info?
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From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...155...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 12:58 PM
To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and Uniconvertor
Ken,
Inkscape isn't ever going to export to jpeg.
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 11:21 -0600, Ken Springer wrote:
> Not being "end-to-end" is an issue where it seems most open source
> projects have some catching up to do.
No. No. No. Open Source doesn't "catch up" it simply is what users have
invested it to be. It's not here to meet your expectations, it's hear to
allow you to meet them for yourself. Open Source isn't freeware and it's
not a charity. It's something much bigger and more important
fundamentally to how software is constructed and why users should care
about how it's made and be literally involved.
> Plus bugs, which is why I finally gave up on Libre Office.
Did you try getting involved to solve the issues? If Libre Office had a
fundraiser, would you help?
> I think that's frustrating for many new uses of open source software
> that are used to more options instead of having to go to extra work to
> do the additional converting.
The unix model which most open source projects follow is "do one thing
well" and not "do a million things sort of ok". this is the same sort of
kind of model Apple follows. We're not going to convert raster images in
inkscape because inkscape is a vector editor and not a raster converter
tool. Using more than one tool isn't a burden on users, it's an
opportunity.
Martin,
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