[Feature] How to set up new Projects is unclear

[oenometer]

First of all, your tool is amazing.

As a new user, I stumbled upon the "New Project" button. I assumed that clicking it would initialize a fresh start, but I'm not really sure what it actually does. At first sight, nothing seems to happen when I click the button. After taking a closer look, I noticed that all the settings in the right panel are reset. However, everything on the left stays the same.

What I would find useful:

1. Name the project when creating it.
   Clicking "New Project" could open a Modal where I can enter a project name in a text field and then click "Create."

2. Use the current project name as the default output filename.
   It would be convenient if the current project name were automatically suggested as the default value for the Output Filename field.

3. Display the current project name somewhere in the interface.

4. Enable a true fresh start (empty image folder).
   This could be added to the "Advanced Mode" settings or included as an additional option in the modal mentioned in (1)

   a) Use default image folder (default behavior, as it currently works)

   b) Start with a new image folder. If this option is enabled, a new project-specific image directory (perhaps as a subdirectory of the main image folder) would be created along with the project.

5. I accidentally discovered that the base settings (card size, page size, etc.) can be saved as defaults by right-clicking them, allowing those settings to persist after creating a new project. It would be amazing if this were also possible for the bleed and spacing options, as they are part of a proxy printer's preferred default setup, just like the card and page dimensions.

[Malacath-92]

I don't recall why the button is labeled "New Project" tbh, because what it does is reset everything to defaults. The reason it may look like nothing changed in the card area is because you already have the default "images" folder as the image folder. I agree this behavior is confusing. What I would suggest the button should really do (before having read the suggested features) is the following:

• Open a dialog with inputs for project name and image folder
• Then setup a project with defaults, besides the output name and the image folder, which are set to the users choice

Now to your suggestions:

1. We seem to be in agreement here
2. Same here
3. The current project name is displayed on the window title bar
4. I think this would also be covered by the suggested dialog, plus on creation of a new project it could also ask whether you want to clear the image folder you chose, if it already contains images
5. This should be possible for almost all options, it should definitely work with bleed and spacing, but I will double check when I have the chance

[oenometer]

Thanks for your quick and precise reply. I’m glad to hear that you see things similarly to me. Since creating and managing projects is a core part of the overall process, making that experience intuitive and clear would really improve the joy of using your app.

I’ve been using it over the last few days, and I’m still blown away by how fast it renders PDFs. Coming from Proxxied, it almost feels like cheating :)

[Malacath-92]

Just a short update regarding number 5. I tested and verified that bleed and spacing settings have functioning default controls via right-clicking them. Unfortunately the spacing setting doesn't correctly save the linked property, but I think that is rare to use either way. But I'll still fix it.

And thank you for your kind words! I figured that performance is probably the most likely area where a desktop app can improve over a web app, so I put a bit more effort on that usually. Back when I started working on this the current slew of web apps for making pdf sheets didn't exist yet, so I never had to worry about standing out in some way 😄 times have changed