On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Justin Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>
> > The way I understood the initial message in this thread is that a PNG file
> > was sent to someone who tried to open it with AbiWord (as a document,
> > not by inserting an image). I think the Right Thing for AbiWord to do when
> > a .png file is opened through the Open File dialog would be to create an
> > Untitled document with the image in it.
>
> Great idea. I just committed support for it.
>
> Now, when you try to open a document, if it can't find a type for it,
> rather than assuming it's a text document, it sees if any of the image
> importers recognize it. If so, a simple document importer builds a simple
> empty document and appends the image produced by the importer.
>
> If you try to save it, it puts up a save as dialog.
>
This is a nice little feature. Another way to be kind to our users :-)
Cheers
Martin
