Hi Barak, Sorry for getting your name wrong in the previous mail! On 08/21/2009 09:32 PM, LightningIsMyName wrote: > The problem is that if I add the multiple paged PDF as an option to > the normal sace procedure we will have a problem when running the > plugin using GIMP_RUN_WITH_LAST_VALS. > Imagine the following Scenario: > * User has images 1 2 3 open > * While image 1 is active, the user now uses the procedure for > creating multipage PDFs on images 2 and 3 > * The user modifies image 1 again, and wants to export it as a single > paged PDF. However he will now have image 2 and 3 and he will have to > remove them in order to add image 1. In git master, there is 'File -> Export to <last file>' and 'File -> Export...'. The former runs _WITH_LAST_VALS while the latter always shows the export options. I don't see any problem yet. > * The user modified image 2 and now we wants to export image 2 and 3 > again as a PDF. He will have to add them again. We can't predict what a user wants to do. We can only give sane defaults, such as the previous export options, and allow the user to change them if they are not right. A more sophisticated solution would be to have per-image export options. Not sure if that is a good idea or not. > The problem is that the multipage procedure should be non-related to > the single-page save procedure since these are different tasks. I don't see these two as conceptually different tasks. In both cases the user wants to export a PDF. > I have only one solution which can solve our problem but I want to > hear your opinion about it: > 1. Merge the gui both procedures, and make the view of the multipage > procedure hidden inside a GtkExpander. > 2. Behaviour will be configure like this: > a. When the expander is not expanded, only the options for the single > page export will be visible, and it will behave as a single page > export. > b.When the expander is expanded, it will behave as the multipage > export and will export the all the images in the GtkIconView. What d you mean w ith all images in the GtkIconView? Can't we simply let the user pick the images for the multi-page PDF? > 3. In case of GIMP_RUN_WITH_LAST_VALS it will be assumed that the > expander is hidden and it's a single page export. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply run with last vals? That is, if the user previously exported image 1 2 and 3, invoking 'File->Export to file.pdf' would re-export this multi-page PDF. > 4. We should make sure that if the multipage procedure was used the > image will still be marked as unsaved somehow (Does the new export api > causes images to still be marked as unsaved when using the Export > function? If so, this solves our problem :D) In git master, exported dirtiness is separate from saved dirtiness. You should try it out :) BR, Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
