Hello all. A notification email brought me back here so I thought I would share my little export panel that got an overhaul recently. There are a couple of export automation macros, but I feel many are so complex they make you NOT want to use them for smaller tasks.
Well, mine is the exact opposite - you very quickly set your options and export to desktop. That's it. Here's an example (click it, it's an animated gif):
Pick all pages or current page of all open documents or current document, set your image size as pixels or dpi, color depth and you are good to go. The grayed out image format is actually the active one.
It doesn't save settings as most of the time I need to prepare RGB jpegs for client approval so it defaults to that every time you open it. But it's also a perfectly usable powerful tool for exporting print files.
If nothing is selected it will export a pretty page-sized rectangle, if something is selected it will export that selection only.
Have fun!
Ok, so it's quick, but that makes it easy to get carried away, you switch to DPI, pick a TIFF file and hit export... Only to realize that you left the DPI setting at 1920 and the file wasn't saved... CorelDRAW is now choking on that enormous file and will more than likely crash.
Well, it did happen to me... coupled with a guessing game on what DPI to use for those large format TIFF files... Math to the rescue! You'll now be warned if something you might regret is about to happen:
Basically if this pops up you might as well turn back and reduce the DPI to something sensible. There's a 95% chance a TIFF file exported when this message pops up will be corrupt and a 50% chance something else will go terribly wrong. And a 99.95% chance these percentages are made up (but trustworthy nevertheless).
You can grab the latest version from the first post. Enjoy!
Most programs (such as Roland versaWorks) can't handle a bitmap with 30.000 pixels or more. For this reason, CorelDRAW, Photoshop and other programs shows a warning about the size. Also, this size means several Gigabytes of file size, and maybe Windows can't handle this size or maybe there's not enough RAM for handle this file and its temporary files. So, creating so big files is almost useless, since nobody needs so big files. Large printing companies use lower resolution for bitmaps.
But I think is not an error of the macro, perhaps the default values should be 300 dpi, 150 dpi and 72 or 96 dpi, and something similar with fixed max widht on pixels (ie 800 px wide, 1200 px, 1800, 2400). The key of this macro is to produce a JPG fast and simple, so the more options less less simple, but is more useful.
I want a new feature for this macro: save the image on the same folder than the original and using the same file name