Objects that are exported to file becomes corrupt

[Peter@multidesk.se]

Is there anyone who understands why an object exported as .png and saved locally can not be read back? It seems that the file somehow become corrupt.
It does not matter if I export it as anything other than .png, it just does not work.

And this does not work regardless of platform.

set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("documents")
export snapshot from group tGroup of stack "Drawing" to URL("file:image.png") as png

///Peter

[bn]

Hi Peter,

if you use "url" you need to specify "binfile" instead of "file" because if you use file LC will convert line endings to a platform specific form and the image will not work anymore.

both of the code variants work

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 set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("documents")
export snapshot from group 1 to url "binfile:image.png" as png

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 set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("documents")
export snapshot from group 1 to file "image.png" as png

Kind regards
Bernd

[Klaus]

If in doubt ALWAYS look up the dictionary!

The entry about "export snapshot..." does not leave any doubt about the snytax:
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export snapshot [from rect[angle] rectangle] of object [(with | without) effects] ... | [from object] [at size width, height] [{with|and} metadata metadata] to {file filePath | container} [as format] [with mask maskFile]
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