Bug 452875 - Better document available DPI change setting when exporting image
Summary: Better document available DPI change setting when exporting image
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: umbrello
Classification: Applications
Component: documentation (show other bugs)
Version: 2.33.2 (KDE releases 20.12.2)
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Umbrello Development Group
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Reported: 2022-04-22 17:43 UTC by 1234ab
Modified: 2022-04-23 12:02 UTC (History)
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Version Fixed In: 2.34.70 (KDE releases 22.07.70)


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Description 1234ab 2022-04-22 17:43:50 UTC
SUMMARY

Awesome tool! However, when starting to first use it, there were some stuff that are unintuitive, here's one:
So I exported the image of a class diagram using the method available [here](https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/umbrello/umbrello/other-features.html#export-as-png), and it was pretty pixelated, I also found the same option in the right click menu.

So I thought about reporting it, but I thought there's no way no one else found it, and sure enough I found [this](https://invent.kde.org/sdk/umbrello/-/commit/3065740d686a49e918b34fc15f004ba40d0584c6) commit, and after that I actually found the "Export diagrams as Pictures" option in the file menu, where I could set the resolution.

So I'd suggest to make the option better discoverable
I wouldn't think it would be under File section, and I didn't search there at all until I found out that the option is for sure in the code, so it has to be somewhere, maybe I could've searched there sooner, but I was just so sure that I already found the image exporter, and I was looking for options near those, and not away like in another menu
Though maybe it does belong more to a general menu (like File) then to the Diagram menu, because it exports all diagrams, instead of just one, so idk.

So in my opinion an improvement would be to move it to a more noticeable place, or maybe remove the other one from the right click menu / replace it with the one that can do more, so people don't get confused between the 2 versions (the one with the DPI change and the one without).

But if that is too dramatic, I think it would still be very good if the corresponding part of the documentation mentioned (I did read it when I had the problem, so it would have helped at least me) that there's an option for that. I can try to create a PR with that,

instead of this:
```
Exporting to an Image

You can also export a complete diagram as an image. The only thing you need to do is select the diagram you want to export, and then the option Export as Picture... from the Diagram menu. 
```

something like this:
```
Exporting to an Image

You can also export a complete diagram as an image. The only thing you need to do is select the diagram you want to export, and then the option Export as Picture... from the Diagram menu. You can also export multiple diagrams at once using the Export Diagrams as Pictures... option from the File menu. With this, you can also set the image resolution, so that the images won't be as blurry.
```
Comment 1 1234ab 2022-04-22 18:55:04 UTC
started the PR
https://invent.kde.org/sdk/umbrello/-/merge_requests/28
Comment 2 Oliver Kellogg 2022-04-23 12:02:31 UTC
Thanks for contributing.

commit a42f0cbe68ce06493c87a7f571d353fe63c3eb62 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: 1234 ab <nevenincs007@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Apr 23 11:51:36 2022 +0000

    Mention image resolution setting in doc
    
    fixes https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452875

M       doc/other_features.docbook