Why not support Export Tiff?

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cers
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Why not support Export Tiff?

Postby cers » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:31 pm

Tiff is a Print file format

~suv
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Re: Why not support Export Tiff?

Postby ~suv » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:10 pm

cers wrote:Why not support Export Tiff?
You know the answer - patches are welcome ;)

It's a known feature request, and part of the necessary code already exists - it is just not hooked up to the user interface yet. But adding support for extended raster image export formats (even the basic ones which are currently supported by the gdk-pixbuf module) also requires a refactoring of Inkscape's 'Export vs 'Save' functions (IMHO):


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