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Hello!
Is there any way to default the "Area to Save" option on the export menu, to "Page"? This is nothing crucial, but it would save me some time, because I select that hundreds of times. If I could pre-define "Page", I would be even more happy :)
Thank you!
Ive been thinking this forever but never said it. Ditto.
A sticky option would be the best solution, since there are some people who need to default to page and others (like me:)) to selection.
I searched the registry and cannot find an option for the Area to Save.
Not all options may exist in the registry as a simple on or off. Some have to be manually entered, but only the developers know if that is possible.
Hopefully GerryI or PhilM or Charles will see this and let us know if it is available in the current release.
PS- I can understand that if the user selects a selection of objects before export, that it would automatically default to that, not page. But if there is nothing selected, I would assume a default to page... Maybe it's just my brain... Or, yes, sticky would solve it.
That makes sense, although I do have concern about software that guesses what I want since the guesses are frequently wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tallis
I usually find that setting an explicit default that I can a) override on the fly, and b) easily change, is a better solution.
I never select any objects, but by default Xara always select "Drawing".
Let us hope next release will allow us default our choice :)
5.5 years later...wishing I could default "area to save" as "page".
Is it possible?
I'm confused. Do you want to Save the page or do you want to Export the page as, say a JPEG image?
When you save the page (File > Save, or File > Save As...) Xara saves everything that is on the page or off the page on the clipboard.
But if you want to export the page as a JPEG, PDF, etc., then you need to specify which objects you want to save. Though it seems to me that if I have a page with some object on the page, and I have somethings off the page, that with nothing selected, Xara included everything in an exported JPEG. Yes, I just tried this in Designer Pro 7 and it does what I thought it would do.
In the attached image, the large black image with the 70 is on the page, my palette of named colors is off the page top left and the pink panel is off the page to the left.
What am I missing here?
This is something I'd like too. I'll try to explain it a little more clearly. Walk with me. I'm using XPGD 11.
- Select File > Export... (Shift+Ctrl+E)
- Choose PNG (many other formats work the same way, but let's be specific) and specify a filename and click Export
- Click the Bitmap Size tab and look at the "Area To Save" options
If I have nothing selected, it defaults to "Page content"
If I have something selected, it defaults to "Selection"
It never defaults to "Page"
I wish it would sometimes default to "Page" or that I could force it to. For many projects, I need to make many exports that are all the full size of the page. For example, when I'm creating graphics for video, I often need all my exports to measure 1280x720 or 1920x1080, HD video dimensions.
There are sometimes workarounds. Sometimes I can create a transparent rectangle the same size as the page and just hit ctrl+A before I export, and then the default "Selection" is effectively the same as the page. Sometimes, however, I have items stored off-page, and this method won't work.
It would be very convenient to be able to make "Page" a sticky option. Alternatively, if the export dialog would just remember the setting from one export to the next, I'd only have to set it once per session. The export dialog already remembers color depth and some other settings, but not "Area to Save."
Thread necromancy issues aside, this is still a valid concern. I have wanted this option for quite some time as well.
There is a workaround. Create a rectangle the exact dimensions of your page (snapping to Objects works for this), and set both fill and line to transparent. Then exporting Content will be the same as exporting Page.
[Edit: Just noticed this was also mentioned in the previous post.]
-- Ben
Just so nobody thinks this issue is settled with that workaround, I'll reiterate that the workaround only works if everything is on the page. It fails if any content is stored off the page or if anything extends off the page. So without a workaround we can use all the time, I think I speak for at least several of us when I say we'd like to see this feature implemented.
I was surprised that it was so easily allowed to die back in 2007 and 2012.Quote:
Originally Posted by ad1066
What do you think, Gary? Make sense now? What do we need to do to put this on the feature request list?
There is a work around to the workaround. Now I know actually having this feature would be better but until that happens you can create your rectangle the same size as the page but don't make it transparent (yet) Make sure it has no outline though. now add a small shape somewhere in the middle of the page this is just to give a clicking point to make it easier to select the rectangle later on. Select your rectangle and your clicking shape and hit Q on your keyboard to apply a clipview. Right click on the clicking shape and select clipping shape from the context menu. this will select your rectangle inside the clipview. click the crosshatch on the colourline (right next to the eyedropper) and all colour will be removed from the rectangle leaving it transparent.
At this point you can create a template of this document for further use, or save a .xar file that you can drop and drag into your page. you can do the right click to select the clipping shape to adjust the size of the rectangle and to create your animation panel double click on the shape you created as a clicking point this will open an edit inside window now you can create your drawing and delete the clicking shape. when done hit ctrl +S to go back to your main document and export your panel.
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Originally Posted by ToddS
the same would happen if your default is save page since some content is "off the page"; you'd have to compensate somehow whether it's menu driven or using a rectangle. if it's a size you always use then make it a default template with an already existing 1280x720 rectangle included in the template so you don't even need to make a rectangle when you start up. make a second template with a 1920x1080 rectangle. any other specific sizes, add more templatesQuote:
Originally Posted by ToddS
i know i'm in the extreme minority (if not the only one) but i've never even used the page to design on except for animations. i do everything off the page to the sides, above, and below. i'm very, very familiar with grouping a transparent rectangle (in my case as i primarily mess with pngs) with content that i want to export. (i've added a sample typical workspace. over 1200 individual images, 38px by 38px, saved one at a time. and i know, go ahead and laugh, it is pretty ridiculous for being just a hobby)
now don't get me wrong, i agree that it should be an option but if content is off the page then it really shouldn't be included when you save "page"
You misunderstand. I don't want to include off-page items. I want to export page with only those items within the page. The suggested workaround is to create a transparent page-sized rectangle so that ctrl+a selects all and then export selection is equivalent to export page. But it's not equivalent if there are items off the page. If I don't need to export with alpha, then I could just select the transparent rectangle first, and then again export selection is equivalent to export page. However, if I do need alpha, then I have to select all the items on my page as well, and if something extends partially off the page, the export will be larger than the page.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeymopar
All I want is for the export dialog to default to whatever mode was used in the last export. Other options are sticky, but page is not.
Today I received an update to this thread, more than eight years after I created it!
At the time I thought this would be an easy fix, without workarounds... I created an autohotkey macro to avoid doing that operation hundreds of times.
AHK FTW! I love AHK! I've used it to "fix" software deficiencies as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nuno
I create hundreds of "Screensavers" that are distributed to 7 stores and eventually displayed on 1080p TVs around the stores on usb sticks - Low tech but works.
My default page sizes are 1920 x 1080 and my templates have various logos and often repeated objects in the Pasteboard Area
Its so frustrating every single time you want to check output you then have to do a seemingly pointless dance of going via Export Otions/ Options Tab / Check JPG Quality if first session) / Bitmap Size Tab / Area To Save / Page / Export
Surely if there is an item selector that is set for page SOMEONE must be able to throw that switch - for the sake of my sanity lol
Xara Support
15:33 (58 minutes ago)
to me
Hi,
Unfortunately there isn't way to change the default setting but it's something we can look into for future versions
Kindest regards
Customer Support
Xara Group Ltd