On 2011-10-06, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Il 06/10/2011 18:58, Julien Rioux ha scritto: >> We have "Export as..." at the top of the menu and "More options..." at >> the bottom, could they be moved together?
> I struggle at getting the rationale behind the "More Options..." entry. > You are supposed to enter a custom command that performs the actual > export ? Isn't this somewhat overlapping with the converters > configuration in the preferences ? I mean, you can define your own > format (there's also the preferences GUI for that) along with a > converter from ps or from pdf to that, and later say you want to export > to that custom format, can't you ? It is for the one-off export into a seldom-used format (and for testing). >> In the save dialog, how am I to figure which of the pdf pdf2 pdf3 pdf4 >> format do I want? > The formats are listed in the filter selection with their name, for example: > Any supported format (*.*) > They are ps (*.ps) > pdf (*.pdf) > pdf2 (*.pdf) > pdf3 (*.pdf) > ... > Now, if you leave the selection to the default entry (first line, i.e., > *.*), then the format is inferred as formats.getFormatFromExtension(). > Therefore, for .pdf, I don't know what comes out, probably it is the > first match. However, if you select either pdf2 or pdf3 etc..., then you > may get exactly the export format you want (assuming the user > understands these pdf2, pdf3, etc.. and is capable of discriminating > among them and picking the right one he/she needs -- guess/hope we have > something in the manual). LyX should know a "user level" name of these formats and present it to the user (also in the preferences GUI). This is what we do with e.g. tex-source encoding, where utf8-plain is named "Unicode (utf8) (XeTeX)". Günter
