Command line PNG export ignores vertical curly braces color
Title pretty much explains the problem, but I'll provide a little context:
I've been heavily leveraging the command-line PNG export feature, setting up a batch script in combination with ImageMagick, PHP, and an Ajax lightbox library to spawn browse-and-zoom-able mockups galleries with a single click. Was very happy with the new workflow (and so were my colleagues) until I noticed an odd variation today.
On command line export only -- not during an "in app" PNG export -- vertical curly braces loose any applied text color. I always do the text of my curly brace annotations in deep purple, to help them jump out from the mockup itself. Horizontal curly brace text retains its color, but vertical ones always revert to black.
Not exactly crippling, but the inconsistency makes my output look careless.
Hope that's an easy one to swat.
As always, thanks much. (And just for the record, that command line feature has turned out to be an enormous benefit -- it wound up boosting my throughput significantly, and led to a semi-automated system for sharing works-in-progress.)
I've been heavily leveraging the command-line PNG export feature, setting up a batch script in combination with ImageMagick, PHP, and an Ajax lightbox library to spawn browse-and-zoom-able mockups galleries with a single click. Was very happy with the new workflow (and so were my colleagues) until I noticed an odd variation today.
On command line export only -- not during an "in app" PNG export -- vertical curly braces loose any applied text color. I always do the text of my curly brace annotations in deep purple, to help them jump out from the mockup itself. Horizontal curly brace text retains its color, but vertical ones always revert to black.
Not exactly crippling, but the inconsistency makes my output look careless.
Hope that's an easy one to swat.
As always, thanks much. (And just for the record, that command line feature has turned out to be an enormous benefit -- it wound up boosting my throughput significantly, and led to a semi-automated system for sharing works-in-progress.)
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Inappropriate?Wow, this wins the "bizarre bug of the month" award for sure! You should see the code for the Vertical and Horizontal curly controls...pretty much identical. So strange! I noticed something else: if you change the text font size, the export will work fine from then on.
I’m "going in" to see what might be happening...so strange!
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Inappropriate?Ok, it's been 40 minutes and it still makes no sense whatsoever. I'll sleep on it and get back to you. At least you have a workaround...
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Yeah, this one is so bizarre that, when I first noticed it, I sat sort of dumbfounded for a moment. As you said, it makes no sense whatsoever. Glad you noticed that a size change locks the color ... will apply that for the time being. -
Inappropriate?Michael, I think I just got this! (finally)
Please test http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mock... and tell me what you think, it was a very tricky double-invalidation loop (don't ask), which i could fix with a well-placed one-liner: from .validateNow() to validateSize(true).
I’m hoping I really got it!
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Nailed it. Just verified with the latest build, generating PNGs from my standard production script. Appreciate your persistence.
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