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To get my .pdf file size down I’ve always set out my images for a given sheet and then exported as a single image, then adjust size externally & reimport – as in this example using a plant palette. But how can I automate this more? I’d like to hit a button and export everything within the coordinate space of the two highlit locus points (in encl. image) (ie using the export as image function). I almost always export .jpg, 300dpi (but sometimes I adjust that), at maximum quality setting. I’m not a script writer but is this something that already exists, or could someone here write such a thing? I always get width dimension of my sheetspace objects before entering dialog. I don’t use loci for anything else in sheetspace. Mouse: File > Export > Image file; Export Image File dialog {Alt f x i} - Export area, defaults to random setting. { m } - Dimensions, remembers its setting. {TAB is only access} - Quality, remembers its setting. {TAB is only access} - Format, remembers its settings. {TAB is only access} - Print size, height & width always some random number. Units defaults to inches, so always have to reset to cm ). {TAB is only access} Then press Draw Marquee Draw marquee in sheetspace Dialog returns with Save and one navigates to path and saves it A lot of steps – 13 or so, some of it forcing mousing, and I do it at least twice a day. A button would be amazing, and save a lot of time and fiddling. My musing - ignore for now A script would probably start with checking that locus points existed in current sheet. So can a script read/parse locus point positions as part of a process? Or do they need to be in a record? Or will a name suffice?