>Hmmm, I am in agreement with Alex on this point - Export implies exactly
>that - export. As for commercial applications, Microsoft Outlook (I know it
>is a poor example) has an Import and Export menu item because it saves such
>useless files using Save As. On the other hand Excel and Word use a warning
>that formatting (or whatever) will be lost when using Save As for foreign
>formats.
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>The apparent standard with the Save As is that the next time one does a
>Save, the format from the previous Save As is used. i.e. Save As file.jpeg
>and then the next Save will save the file as file.jpeg. This is not good for
>files that loose content with saved e.g. .jpeg, because as Alex said
One example is Star Office: when you save your current document to a
foreign format, it works. But when you attempt to close it, you get
warned about the fact that you may loose formatting.
On the other side, Photoshop only warns when you have used feature
that will be lost, like layers and al.
I think that currently it is export that fits the best in Dia.
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