Re: [Gimp-gui] Improving Export

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 10/12/2015 01:20 PM, Jehan wrote:
> > The workgroup wiki page:
> > http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Export_dialog_workgroup
>
> After some discussion on IRC, I updated the wiki page with the various
> ideas, and a wireframe by pippin. Feel free to comment! :-)
>
> Jehan

In the proposed export dialog, will there be a place to choose the 
precision for the exported file? For example, when exporting an image 
file from a 32-bit floating point xcf layer stack:

* jpegs can be exported at 8-bit integer
* pngs can be exported as 8-bit or 16-bit integer
* tiffs can be exported as 8-bit integer, 16-bit integer or floating 
point, 32-bit integer or floating point, etc
* I'm not sure what all the export precision options are for OpenEXR 
images, but there's many more than one
* etc for other file formats

As exporting to a lower precision is likely to invoke the dither dialog, 
it would be nice to be able to set global dither preferences, including 
"No, never dither upon changing the precision and don't ever show the 
dither dialog".

In the proposed export dialog, will there be a way to set a default for 
exporting metadata in tiffs and other file formats?

* For example, right now the tiff export dialog has an advanced menu, 
that's closed by default, that defaults to exporting all the metadata 
that's associated with the xcf layer stack.

* There are use cases for exporting all of the metadata, some of the 
metadata, and none of the metadata.

* Currently the user has to click open the advanced dialog and change 
the metadata export settings as desired, and then do it all again the 
next time GIMP is opened.

* It would really be nice to be able to save metadata and other export 
presets, to avoid having to make the same choices every time an image is 
exported from GIMP.

Several suggestions regarding the export dialog were made in an earlier 
thread: 
http://gimp.1065349.n5.nabble.com/Useability-enhancement-request-unified-expanded-file-export-dialog-td44924.html

Elle