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[Michael Hendry <648424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One way of dealing with the problem of duplicate filenames would be to
give the exported files new names, e.g. Export001.jpg, Export002.jpg
etc.

As you'll see above, I'm preparing a presentation from my (recently
imported) archive of 21000 images. Once I've exported the images I use
an add-in to OpenOffice Impress called PhotoAlbum to import the images
into a slide show. The images are imported in alphabetical order of
filename in one simple operation, with dimensions adjusted to fill the
slide. I then have to sort the images into the appropriate order for the
slideshow.

Inevitably, I find I want to insert some other images into the show, and
these have to be done "by hand", with tedious hand-resizing of the new
images, one-by-one.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to collect and sort the images within
Shotwell, and then export them with new filenames which would preserve
this order when they're imported into Impress.

Let's say I've tagged ImageA.jpg, ImageB.jpg and ImageC,jpg for export,
but I want them to be in the slideshow in reverse order. In my proposed
new feature for Shotwell, I'd drag and drop them on screen into the
order ImageC.jpg, ImageB.jpg and ImageA.jpg and then export them as
Export001.jpg, Export002.jpg and Export003.jpg respectively.

The existing Slideshow feature within Shotwell goes part of the way, but
doesn't allow for changes in order, and the images have to be linked
together as an event or with a tag.

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Export doesn't deal with different files with same filename
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