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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0012493 | Scribus | Import / Export | public | 2014-07-07 23:20 | 2020-11-07 14:52 |
| Reporter | JLuc | Assigned To | cbradney | ||
| Priority | high | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 1.5.0svn | ||||
| Target Version | 1.5.4 | Fixed in Version | 1.5.6.svn | ||
| Summary | 0012493: "Export to Image" dialog proposes bad prefix, folder and image type | ||||
| Description | In the "Export to image" dialogs both prefix, export path and default image type are wrong and increase risk of bad export and requires user to carefully correct inputs each time sHe uses this feature; when he should not have to. - "prefix" input defaults to a looooong path value. Instead, the 1st time it should propose a slug made out of the SLA filename (without path, without .sla and without special characters), and each following times it should propose the last entered value. - the destination path is wrong. It should remember the last used value. AMOF This is 0012998 - default proposed image type is allways PNG. It should remember last requested type and use it as default for the next time the dialog is used. | ||||
| Additional Information | For example : Let's open following document : /home/jluc/Dropbox/Aranya/couv/couv.sla Whent Export to image is launched, the dialog proposes the following default values : - export path : /home/jluc/Dropbox/ARANYA W JLuc/p124/images : that's totaly unrelated and useless ! - prefix : /home/jluc/Dropbox/ARANYA W JLuc/couv/couv.sla : this is not even a prefix ! its the name and path of the currently opened file. Prefix should be 'couv' that is the filename alone, without extension and without path. - image type is : png. That's not too bad for a first try, even when i prefer to export to JPG. But next time a export another page to image, then the proposed type should not be the default PNG, but JPG as was previously requested. | ||||
| Tags | #easyhack, usability | ||||
| Patch | No | ||||
| related to | 0008997 | closed | Copy Page dialog should remember last used values | |
| related to | 0004751 | new | Some file dialogs use unreasonable default directories | |
| has duplicate | 0012998 | confirmed | Export -> Save as image directory defaults to last used export directory not current | |
| child of | 0006506 | acknowledged | Dialog boxes should remember their settings |
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Moreover, the path for file destination is common to scribus and doesnt change when changing document. (i'm not sure this is exactly what happens, maybe the path is just weirdly managed) Export path should be remembered for each document and should default to SLA folder (or Export to PDF folder if there is one) |
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Hey Kunda, thanks for confirming, but i think that this is not a "cosmetique" a bug (in french. I dont know how it appears in english : 'superficial' ? makeup ?) ATM, both prefix and export path are wrong and a bad path increases risk of bad export and requires user to correct export path when he should not have to. This issue is hit mostly when working on 2 different projects or more, having 2 different paths and prefixes or more, and switching from one to the other. It's not about how scribus looks to the user, trendily beautifull or not (cosmetic), its about how the feature works well or not, and how the user has to correct the prefix AND the path that is being proposed. |
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Yes, good points. This would really help to speedup workflow for sure. Thanks for the heads up. Huge timesaver here. Upgrading to 'high' priority |
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I mark #12988 Export -> Save as image directory defaults to last used export directory not current" dupe of this one. It has the following remarks : << This problem was fixed for PDF export a long time ago but not remedied for other exports. I (like many others) keep project files in a separate directory for each project and would like ALL exports to automagically go to that directory not the last project I was working on. Export -> Save as image. Defaults to last save directory not current working directory. Should be a simple fix since it is the same behaviour for PDF which works correctly. >> |
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Updated the title to better reflect crapy state of behaviour. |
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I edited to add a new related issue : default proposed image type is allways PNG. It should remember last requested type and use it as default. |
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Marked #easyhack because changing the proposed prefix to some sane slug is probably very easy Fixing other settings require to save the entered values so as to reuse them next time and requires more knowledge of scribus + probably requires to add some attribute to the SLA file format so as to remember it next time file is reopened. See how other export dialog (PDF...) do it. |
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For example : Let's open following document : /home/jluc/Dropbox/Aranya/couv/couv.sla Whent Export to image is launched, the dialog proposes the following default values : - export path : /home/jluc/Dropbox/ARANYA W JLuc/p124/images : that's totaly unrelated and useless ! - prefix : /home/jluc/Dropbox/ARANYA W JLuc/couv/couv.sla : this is not even a prefix ! its the name and path of the currently opened file. Prefix should be 'couv' that is the filename alone, without extension and without path. - image type is : png. That's not too bad for a first try, even when i prefer to export to JPG. But next time a export another page to image, then the proposed type should not be the default PNG, but JPG as was previously requested. |
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Issue still happens. Could it be fixed plz ? |
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When I try that with current SVN: - export path was the directory I started scribus from. Not optimal, but a valid path. - the prefix was without ".sla" when I created a new document (".../Document-1"), with sla when I opened a document. Both are valid, even though it looks inconsistent, and dropping the suffix makes more sense. - not remembering the type is annoying, but png is a safe default I would assume that exporting to image from scribus is a rare use case; in fact, I would always export to a vector file for the defined "master" and convert from there using other tools. So it might take a user of this feature to fix it, since it's more of an RFE for a corner use case. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2014-07-07 23:20 | JLuc | New Issue | |
| 2014-07-08 02:47 | Kunda | Severity | minor => tweak |
| 2014-07-08 02:47 | Kunda | Target Version | => 1.5.1 |
| 2014-07-08 02:47 | Kunda | Summary | Export to image dont remember prefix setting => Export to image doesn't remember prefix setting |
| 2014-07-10 17:39 | FirasH | Status | new => confirmed |
| 2014-07-10 18:11 | JLuc | Note Added: 0032674 | |
| 2014-07-10 18:12 | JLuc | Note Edited: 0032674 | |
| 2014-07-16 10:03 | JLuc | Note Added: 0032777 | |
| 2014-07-16 10:04 | JLuc | Note Edited: 0032777 | |
| 2014-07-16 10:28 | JLuc | Note Edited: 0032777 | |
| 2014-07-16 10:29 | JLuc | Note Edited: 0032777 | |
| 2014-07-16 15:44 | FirasH | Reproducibility | have not tried => always |
| 2014-07-16 17:02 | Kunda | Note Added: 0032786 | |
| 2014-07-16 17:02 | Kunda | Priority | normal => high |
| 2014-07-16 17:02 | Kunda | Severity | tweak => minor |
| 2014-10-24 09:55 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0008997 |
| 2015-04-10 19:44 | JLuc | Relationship added | has duplicate 0012998 |
| 2015-04-10 19:45 | JLuc | Note Added: 0034871 | |
| 2015-04-10 19:46 | JLuc | Note Edited: 0034871 | |
| 2015-07-10 04:14 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0004751 |
| 2015-11-11 00:20 | Kunda | Tag Attached: workflow | |
| 2016-01-23 17:16 | cbradney | Target Version | 1.5.1 => 1.5.3 |
| 2016-04-06 10:26 | JLuc | Patch | => No |
| 2016-04-06 10:26 | JLuc | Summary | Export to image doesn't remember prefix setting => Export to image proposes crayppy prefix and folder settings |
| 2016-04-06 10:26 | JLuc | Description Updated | |
| 2016-04-06 10:27 | JLuc | Note Added: 0039848 | |
| 2016-04-06 17:32 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0006506 |
| 2016-04-06 17:33 | Kunda | Summary | Export to image proposes crayppy prefix and folder settings => Export to image proposes poor choice for prefix & folder settings |
| 2016-04-16 09:30 | JLuc | Summary | Export to image proposes poor choice for prefix & folder settings => Export to image proposes bad choice for prefix & folder settings |
| 2016-11-21 16:07 | JLuc | Summary | Export to image proposes bad choice for prefix & folder settings => Export to image proposes bad choice for prefix, folder settings and image type |
| 2016-11-21 16:07 | JLuc | Description Updated | |
| 2016-11-21 16:07 | JLuc | Note Added: 0042486 | |
| 2016-12-08 22:04 | Kunda | Target Version | 1.5.3 => 1.5.4 |
| 2017-03-09 16:18 | JLuc | Tag Attached: #easyhack | |
| 2017-03-09 16:49 | JLuc | Relationship replaced | child of 0006506 |
| 2017-03-09 16:54 | JLuc | Description Updated | |
| 2017-03-09 16:56 | JLuc | Summary | Export to image proposes bad choice for prefix, folder settings and image type => "Export to Image" dialog proposes bad prefix, folder and image type |
| 2017-03-09 16:57 | JLuc | Tag Detached: workflow | |
| 2017-03-09 16:57 | JLuc | Tag Attached: usability | |
| 2017-03-09 17:01 | JLuc | Note Added: 0043549 | |
| 2017-03-13 13:27 | JLuc | Additional Information Updated | |
| 2017-03-13 13:28 | JLuc | Note Added: 0043582 | |
| 2018-11-07 20:10 | JLuc | Note Added: 0045588 | |
| 2020-11-07 09:54 | mjg | Note Added: 0048346 | |
| 2020-11-07 11:20 | cbradney | Assigned To | => cbradney |
| 2020-11-07 11:20 | cbradney | Status | confirmed => resolved |
| 2020-11-07 11:20 | cbradney | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2020-11-07 11:20 | cbradney | Fixed in Version | => 1.5.6.svn |
| 2020-11-07 14:52 | cbradney | Status | resolved => closed |
