Remove appended page number for PNG export when parts only comprise one page

• Feb 21, 2016 - 23:17
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
by design
Project

I'm currently exporting parts as PDF and PNG, but the PNG files have '-1' appended to each of the parts, because PNG can't support multiple pages. But all of my parts are a single page, so this is unnecessary and untidy.

If the export filename handling can name them as it does the PDFs (without the page number in the filename) for parts where the number of pages = 1, that would be great. Thanks!

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Comments

Status (old) patch (code needs review) by design

No way. It makes the output inconsistent and so difficult to handle for scripts. It will also probably break Marc's open office extension, not to mention the musescore.com backend, and probably other people who relies on this consistency.

I agree it seems at first like it would be a good thing, but on further reflection not so much. Now, what *could* make sense is an additional command line option to force a single PNG to be generated, perhaps laid out as in the new vertical scrolling option. Or, one could consider using multi-page SVG.