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!
This works SO good! One more option would make it perfect....
Any way to add an option to make it export only what is selected and not the entire page?
It kinda already does that - if there is a selection that will determine the export area. This is very handy if you have a large design and don't want to split it to pages or such - just place transparent rectangles over it, select one and export - the image will be the rectangular area of that selection.
The downside of sorts is that it doesn't export the selected OBJECTS only, but what is within their boundaries - but you can overcome that if needed by moving some things around. I did it this way for the usage explained above (slicing large and/or complex designs).
Hi Joe
Really great macro here, thanks for sharing!But I can't find the attachment/archive file in the first post? Please can you share the link to download this macro?Thanks!