How do I export to PNG or JPEG?

[OrihsoArika]

I wanted to make a PR for a drawing I did for the README.md file, however, I couldn't find an optiton to export as JPEG or even PNG, I was looking if the program just had the option to export as vector file, but I saw that someone sent (here in Discussions) a screenshot 3 weeks ago where they could export to PNG, is there anything I'm missing by any chance?

OS: EndeavourOS

[wmorin]

You're not missing a plugin, it's just in a different export entry. "Export Document" only offers Svg, Pdf and Xopp. PNG and JPEG live in the other two:

• App menu (the ☰ button) > Export… > Export Document Pages: set "Export Format" to Png or Jpeg (the dropdown starts on Svg). You get one image per page, and there's a Jpeg quality setting.
• Same menu > Export… > Export Selection: select your drawing first with the selector tool, then pick Png or Jpeg. This is probably what you want for a README, since it crops to the drawing instead of exporting a whole page.

Both have been there since 0.5.8 (late 2022), so any recent Arch/EndeavourOS package has them (the current one is 0.14.2).

The Arch package also ships rnote-cli, which is handy if you'd rather do it from a terminal:

# just the strokes, cropped
rnote-cli export selection --output-file drawing.png all mydrawing.rnote
rnote-cli export selection --output-file drawing.jpg --jpeg-quality 90 all mydrawing.rnote

# every page as a separate image
rnote-cli export doc-pages -o ./out -f png mydrawing.rnote

rnote-cli export doc --output-file x.png fails with "format ... not supported", same limitation as the GUI. There's also --bitmap-scalefactor if you need a higher resolution image. I tried these with rnote 0.14.2 from the Arch repos.

Format lists in the source: export.rs.

Does Export Selection give you what you need for the README?

[OrihsoArika]

Yes, it does! Thank you :>

Quite weird that exporting a document as an has two separate buttons.
I could suggest merging both depending on what format you select.

[wmorin]

Glad it works! Merging them sounds reasonable. It'd make a good feature request in the issues so the maintainers can weigh in.

[OrihsoArika]

well, yeah! Thanks :3