graphicsinkscape
When I click "Export Bitmap..." in File menu or even from shortcut it brings no effect, no popup, no error.
I use Inkscape on Ubuntu 14.04.
EDIT:
Regarding to your answers: yes, program restart does help, but this prevents you from work if you have over a dozen of images to export and you have to restart every time.
According to Adobe [1], InDesign does not support importing SVG files. It does, however, support importing EPS files, which Inkscape can export to (just choose EPS from the drop-down box in the "Save as ..." dialog).
No. You can have an autosave but it is based on an interval with a 1 minute minumum, not on an action.
By the way, in case you did not know: Inkscape does an emergency save when it crashes so you should be able to retrieve the file that was active while it crashed.
When Inkscape crashes, it tries to save the document as a backup with following name:
<filename>.<datetime>.#
If the document has not been saved yet, the name is:
inkscape-emergency.<datetime>.#
Note, that there is no .svg file name ending.
On Unix (Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.) Inkscape tries to save in the following paths:
Home directory (~/, $HOME, /home//)
/tmp/
In the current working directory
(in that order).
Best Answer
My best guess is that your dialog window disappeared outside the view of your screen. I had this occur both under Windows and Linux (especially when using dual monitors). Remove your personal settings and restart Inkscape. Under Ubuntu: just remove this folder:
~/.config/inkscape(the folder inkscape in the hidden folder.configin your home directory).Just as a sidenote, sidebar dialogs can have 3 states: open and closed (the normal ones), but also: collapsed. When the export window is collapsed, you'll see "Export PNG Image (Shift+Ctrl+E)" in the right of your screen, vertically written. If the dialog is collapsed, it won't open by calling the menu. You then have to click on the item title.