Exporting.

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Exporting.

Postby tobin on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:07:52 GMT

Hi, i've been using alchemy for a few weeks now, it's a very clean quick tool for getting ideas and such. I love all the limitations and modules. (i even sourced and created lots of vectors for my own shapes librarys :) )

But my one and only problem with this app is the work flow when it gets to exporting to work further in something else. And whilst i love that this app is small and light and think the exporting end needs to be beefed up considerably. I find myself opening pdfs photoshop at 300dpi then saving them and opening them with painter, sometimes with illustrator before that.

And i think you could patch this problem up by making the switch to bitmap bring an image in at 300dpi but i think what would be a better solution is instead of having both switch to bitmap & switch to vector, have an export button, i feel like i should go into detail with what i think would improve this area and right now at this minute i have lots of things better to do but im procastinating so here goes it.


click the export button

alchemy window switchs to export mode
The export mode would be like a wizard with a few steps
the first step would be Select PDF page from session select and then

it changes to export options window
here you have vector / bitmap buttons resolutions and an editable list or icons of a few different apps,
maybe its just me but i constantly find myself switching the apps around

and thats all i can really think of right now, i think its a very strong app and i love the philosophy and lack of control which forces you to play/experiment/colour outside the lines
but i dont see why the end result should be neglected.

anyway sorry if i rambled on there, i think it is important, to the extent that i sometimes think about tying my arm behind my back so i cant undo and using custom brushes in photoshop or painter :)
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Re: Exporting.

Postby Karl DD on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:10:37 GMT

Thanks for the feedback.
Export is definitely one of the things we will try and work on for the next release.
Namely scaling options and SVG support.
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