Translating SnipSVG

[Simon_Dismore]

Quick report on translating a "snip":

Having created in one language, e.g...

Process Control.png

...you can replace the screenshot and re-write the text easily...

Control de proceso.png

Possible enhancements for a future release:

• Blur effect also available as an overlay object, so the image is not blurred in the SnipX, only in the exported image. This means you don't need to re-create the blur for each screenshot.
• In-place screenshot feature, select the existing screenshot and capture the next screenshot at the same size in the same "snip". Or be able to "favourite" dimensions.
• Layers with language tags so you can have multiple languages in the same SnipX. There would be a common layer for boxes, arrows etc that won't need translating. You could then export the SVG with #fragment identifiers for each language, similar to this.

[Tim Green]

Hi Simon,

At least in SVG, having the blur and pixelate effects hard-baked is a feature because it ensures that the hidden information can never be recovered. If the user needed to "un-overlay" it there would be a very high risk of information leakage in production images. If you save as SnipX the effect is reversible, because you don't use SnipX as a production image -- even when you insert a SnipX in a Help+Manual project it's always converted/compiled to formats with hard-baked pixelate and blur (including in SVG) on publishing.

[Simon_Dismore]

Hi Tim

Yes absolutely agree: the blur must be irreversable in an SVG output image.

But currently the blur is permanent in the SnipX file too. I was thinking of a potential additional feature for a later release where a blur can be overlaid as an movable/sizable/removable object in SnipSVG, that's applied to the underlying screenshot only when the image is exported. The SnipX file contains the unblurred images. That way the blur doesn't have to be re-created when the screenshot is replaced in the SnipSVG for a different language, or product version etc.

Anyway, congratulations - it's great.

Simon

[Tim Green]

But currently the blur is permanent in the SnipX file too.

It's an overlay. Double-click on the bitmap and you can then adjust or delete the overlay.

[Simon_Dismore]

It's an overlay. Double-click on the bitmap and you can then adjust or delete the overlay.

Sorry, I didn't realise that. Yes I can see how to adjust it now.

How do I change the underlying screenshot while preserving the blur overlay?

Thanks
Simon

[Tim Green]

How do I change the underlying screenshot while preserving the blur overlay?

This isn't currently possible because you can't access the effects objects without "opening" the bitmap, and you can't replace the bitmap while it's open for cropping or effects editing.

[Alexander Halser]

When blur/overlay are baked into the bitmap, they do no longer exist as objects of their own. Replacing the image replaces those manipulated bits as well. This is not the case with the SnipX file format, which preserves the bitmap effects separately. But the effects must stay within the bitmap bounds and might crash if they are outside (and you could not edit them anymore if they are). This would happen if you replace a bitmap with a smaller one. Because of that, we clear crop information and image effects when you replace the bitmap.