On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>>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.
>>
>>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.
Which reminds me: When you have made changes and subsequently undone them,
Dia still thinks the diagram is modified. Shouldn't
diagram_modified_exists consider a diagram unmodified if it has no undo
history?
-Lars
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