Little suggestion for "sticky" bitmap exporting
Dear Inkscapers,
Here's a first suggestion: a feature I would have wished since ages in Illustrator but... never had a chance to provide...
When you export as bitmap a document from a design program, you often want to export it several times. I'd love Inkscape to have a checkbox in the export-as-bitmap dialog that says "and export every time I save". Another file-menu-command such as "export-again" would also help.
And maybe "settings-set-for-export" may make sense (at least in some future).
paul
When you export as bitmap a document from a design program, you often want to export it several times. I'd love Inkscape to have a checkbox in the export-as-bitmap dialog that says "and export every time I save". Another file-menu-command such as "export-again" would also help.
Such automation is not well-suited for the GUI. Doing something that I did not explicitly ask it to do, perhaps long after I set "export with save" for some objects and have forgotten about that, might be a nasty surpise. Instead automating export is a good task for the command line interface, and in CVS we have a lot of improvements on that. Most importantly, you can now specify the id of the object on the command line and that object will get exported with the same filename and dpi as you used for it last time in the GUI. So you can easily do a shell script or batch file to export e.g. all buttons from a web page mockup with one command. More details here:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes
And maybe "settings-set-for-export" may make sense (at least in some future).
What is this? Filename and dpi are remembered for each exported object, if that is what you mean.
Ok, I understand the point though it wouldn't apply if the checkbox to "repeat export at each save" would be unchecked by default... but ah well. How does sound a simple "Export again" command then ?
paul
Le 21 oct. 04, à 00:20, bulia byak a écrit :
Such automation is not well-suited for the GUI. Doing something that I did not explicitly ask it to do, perhaps long after I set "export with save" for some objects and have forgotten about that, might be a nasty
Ok, I understand the point though it wouldn't apply if the checkbox to "repeat export at each save" would be unchecked by default... but ah well.
Unchecked by default, but once checked, it stays checked, right? Otherwise it is useless. And here's the problem. Coupling the very different operations of save and export in some not-always-obvious way is conceptually wrong, imho.
How does sound a simple "Export again" command then ?
Basically, you have it already. Once you exported some object, all the settings are stored in that object and restored into the dialog next time you open it. So you can just select that object and blindly do Ctrl+Shift+E, Enter to export it again with the same settings.
Le 21 oct. 04, à 11:13, bulia byak a écrit :
Basically, you have it already. Once you exported some object, all the settings are stored in that object and restored into the dialog next time you open it. So you can just select that object and blindly do Ctrl+Shift+E, Enter to export it again with the same settings.
But then I have the pop-up again (not really needed I feel) and the file-choosing dialog again (this one is especially unwished).
paul
But then I have the pop-up again (not really needed I feel) and the file-choosing dialog again (this one is especially unwished).
No, file dialog is only opened when you click on Browse. By default there is only the Export dialog. I don't think that the ability to bypass this dialog is worth a command of its own.
And if you need to export many objects, you don't need to close it. Just click on object - click Export - click on object - click Export - etc. Or, run a batch script as described in my first mail.
Please file an RFE at http://sf.net/projects/inkscape
This sounds like a great request for a feature.
Jon
Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Dear Inkscapers,
Here's a first suggestion: a feature I would have wished since ages in Illustrator but... never had a chance to provide...
When you export as bitmap a document from a design program, you often want to export it several times. I'd love Inkscape to have a checkbox in the export-as-bitmap dialog that says "and export every time I save". Another file-menu-command such as "export-again" would also help.
And maybe "settings-set-for-export" may make sense (at least in some future).
paul
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