relative pathname with subdirectories broken [export dialog]

[Bryan Hoyt]

There's been a recent fix to the export bitmap dialog to allow exporting with a relative pathname. That's very helpful, but it only works when exporting to the same directory. If I want to export to a subdirectory, only "../" and "./" work.

Specifically, here's my relevant filesystem hierarachy:
/ #top level of this project folder
/graphics/ #where i keep my svg's
/graphics/subfolder/ #an example subfolder
/graphics/website.svg #my svg file
/website/ #where I keep my website files

I open the file "website.svg" and I want to export an image named "header.png" to somewhere useful (in this case "../website/header.png") Here's what works and what doesn't in the Filename box:

"header.png": works like a dream. Exports to /graphics/header.png which is what I'd want in that case
"./header.png": also works as expected, exactly like above
"../header.png": works correctly: exports to /header.png
"../website/header.png": BROKEN. Tries to export to /home/website/header.png. a) directory doesn't exist, b) I expect it to export to /website/header.png
"subfolder/header.png": BROKEN. Tries to export to /home/[username]/subfolder/header.png. Same problem as above, really.

I'm using a recent SVN build from 7 days ago.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Not reproduced on Ubuntu 9.04, Inkscape rev. 22184.
Could you please test a recent dev version (http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47pre2/) and confirm you still have this bug?
Thanks!

[Bryan Hoyt (bryhoyt)]

Thanks for the tip, JazzyNico. I've just compiled the latest SVN (r), and everything works like a charm.

I've marked as "Fix Committed". I'm not sure if I'm able to do that, but we'll see if my status update takes.

[Bryan Hoyt (bryhoyt)]

I meant to say r22190 above for the SVN version