SUMMARY Please allow to save as *.svg STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. capture screen 2. open "Save as..." dialog 3. there is no option to save as SVG (*.svg) OBSERVED RESULT Not possible to save as SVG (*.svg) EXPECTED RESULT Possible to save as SVG (*.svg) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: EndeavourOS, KDE Plasma KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Current workaround is to save as PNG, import to Inkscape and export as SVG. Needed to create icons, etc in SVG format.
> Needed to create icons, etc in SVG format. But you'd just be wrapping a raster image in the SVG. What would be the point? It wouldn't scale any better than if you tried to scale a PNG.
forgot to mark it as NEEDSINFO
(In reply to Noah Davis from comment #1) > > Needed to create icons, etc in SVG format. > > But you'd just be wrapping a raster image in the SVG. What would be the > point? It wouldn't scale any better than if you tried to scale a PNG. The point is, that we need SVG. As mentioned, PNG is emergency workaround as no other option is possible if to use current Spectacle. Also point is, that other supported file formats in Spectacle are not better but even worse. So PNG is really emergency workaround. Then please allow to save directly to SVG, then we will not use PNG or any other raster graphics format anymore. Inkscape itself does not make screenshots and even if does - what's the point to use Spectacle then? As using latest KDE, would like to use its tools to make screenshots. Otherwise we render KDE tools useless.
(In reply to Edmund Laugasson from comment #3) > The point is, that we need SVG. As mentioned, PNG is emergency workaround as > no other option is possible if to use current Spectacle. Also point is, that > other supported file formats in Spectacle are not better but even worse. So > PNG is really emergency workaround. Then please allow to save directly to > SVG, then we will not use PNG or any other raster graphics format anymore. > Inkscape itself does not make screenshots and even if does - what's the > point to use Spectacle then? As using latest KDE, would like to use its > tools to make screenshots. Otherwise we render KDE tools useless. You want the screenshot rendered directly to SVG? Not raster graphics wrapped in an SVG? Sorry, but that's literally impossible. There is no screenshot app in the world that can do that. If there is one that allows saving screenshots to an SVG, what it is actually doing is either wrapping raster graphics in an SVG (no better than PNG) or using an algorithm to convert screen content to vector graphics (highly error prone).
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!