To be helpful, I will post what I discover as I play with Tropy’s import function here as the issues are all relevant to the issue of importing SVG (and .ai) files.
- I cannot find where Tropy can show me the path to a file’s folder. Maybe I am missing something that is there? Because I have duplicate copies of an image file used in different projects and publications, I really need to know which thumbnail was used in which project. That info is only stored in the file path.
OK, I just found the full path as a popup when I hover over the filename in the metadata. I need it to be visible as an attribute rather than having to hover to see it. I could not find a property for filepath—could that please be added? (I checked the vocabulary list in https://github.com/tropy/tropy/blob/master/res/vocab/exif.n3.)
How about I can right-click on the thumbnail and have go to the folder containing that file in the menu of options? My goal is to choose the best version of the image in Tropy, then find and copy that file into a new location that will contain all my ‘approved’ images for future use. (I need to always know the dpi of the image to assure it is what is required for a project.) I still would like to have the file path as an object property so that I can identify the project for an image at a glance.
All right! I just found that if I right-click on the image on the right of the grid list, the “show original photo” option does exactly what I want to find the original file. That’s great! (I could delete my issues after I solve them, but I am leaving them here for other users who are having the same difficulties.)
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I discovered Tropy pulls in the Inkscape artboard region rather than the image region when the image is larger than the artboard. Thus when I did not resize the artboard and it is smaller than the image, Tropy cropped the image at the boundaries of the artboard. In Inkscape the sizes of the image and the artboard are independent, and thus I can just select the image and use it (e.g., export to .png). regardless of the artboard size. So I have had no need to make sure I resize the artboard to the image.
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Can Tropy import tell me when an import file will be a duplicate of an existing file? Could it be a standard copy display that lets me skip that file or not and to do the same for all files in the import list? Could I turn off the duplicate notification completely if I do not want to know?
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How shall I send the input log file so that we can discuss it?
Regards, Martha