Export Bitmap gives error if directory does not exist

[Aidan Delaney]

When exporting to a bitmap one uses functionality in "File->Export Bitmap". This saves the directory-of-export as metadata in the SVG file. If one moves the SVG file to another machine (or emails it to a colleague) and they then choose to Export Bitmatp, an error is presented. This error states that the previous location does not exist (it's unlikely to exist on another machine). I've only tried this on Linux where my colleague got an error stating "/home/me/ProjectFoo" does not exist. This was confusing for my collegue.

I suspect that I were a Windows user and my colleague a Linux user the error would read "C:\ProjectFoo" does not exist. Which would be even more confusing.

Suggested fix: Simply don't prompt with an error if the directory-of-export does not extist. Instead default to the users home directory.

[Luca Bruno (lucab)]

What version of inkscape are your using? I think this behaviour is tipical of 0.45 and could have been fixed in 0.46 svn. Please check & report with a recent build.

[Beluga (buovjaga)]

I have not seen an error message, even though I have tested bug attachments with a local png export path saved. Should this error message appear already when opening the dialog or only when trying to export?

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15073 (GTK3)

[mray (mrayyyy)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at http://inkscape.org/report.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/354
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/mray