Re: [Gimp-user] Save, Save As and Export separated?
Richard Gitschlag (strata_ran...@hotmail.com) wrote: Okay, then what purpose does the Save a copy command do these days when from the user's perspective the ONLY difference between it and Export is the target file format? I suggested it once that the former should now be treated as a variation of Export. I don't know the reasoning behind that one. Sorry. Bye, Simon -- si...@budig.de http://simon.budig.de/ ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Save, Save As and Export separated?
Adding this shortcut would train users to use a workflow with an artificial stumbling block inbetween Okay, then what purpose does the Save a copy command do these days when from the user's perspective the ONLY difference between it and Export is the target file format? I suggested it once that the former should now be treated as a variation of Export. Personally, I would use Save a Copy to create incremental backups of my xcf files. If my project xcf is bob.xcf then every now and then at a different completion save I do a Save As bob-1.xcf then later bob-2.xcf but I continue working in bob.xcf as my active image. (I created a script under 2.6 http://registry.gimp.org/node/14246 to do this for me, using a date/number append so I don;t have to remember which save-as version I've already used.) -Rob A ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Save, Save As and Export separated?
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:40:47 +0200 From: si...@budig.de To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Save, Save As and Export separated? Richard Gitschlag (strata_ran...@hotmail.com) wrote: Okay, then what purpose does the Save a copy command do these days when from the user's perspective the ONLY difference between it and Export is the target file format? I suggested it once that the former should now be treated as a variation of Export. I don't know the reasoning behind that one. Sorry. Bye, Simon -- Save a Copy: - Does not clean the image status (GIMP will still ask to save any changes) - Does not change the image-file association for future Save operations Export: - Does not clean the image status - Does not change the image-file association for future Save operations Expressed in those terms they do look virtually identical, don't they? In 2.6, Save a Copy more or less WAS an export command anyway. Professional workflow would be that when you're operating on an XCF image you Save the XCF and Save a Copy anything else ... no problems, no lost work. Except that apparently a lot of people only ever used the Save command, which is what led to so many people losing work when they quit GIMP. So IMHO we have one command on the File menu that is extremely similar (especially in the eyes of the user) to another, and it was probably never actually getting used in the first place. If I could find a good analogy, it would be like ... I dunno, like having two separate Levels commands where one is intended solely for grayscale and the other solely RGB. -- Stratadrake strata_ran...@hotmail.com Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] extracting help files
Hi: I am very much a novice at this and am completely baffled as to how/where I am supposed to extract gimp-help-2.8.0.tar.bz2 file. If I can't get this to work, I would be satisfied with a pdf of the 2.8 help files! Just anything, because I cannot always work connected to the internet. My operating system is Windows Vista. I really appreciate any help someone can offer. Thanks, Chuck ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] extracting help files
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Chuck Gee wrote: Hi: I am very much a novice at this and am completely baffled as to how/where I am supposed to extract gimp-help-2.8.0.tar.bz2 file. It's because you are not supposed to do that :) If I can't get this to work, I would be satisfied with a pdf of the 2.8 help files! I don't think we have PDFs for 2.8 help yet. But let's see what can be done about that. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
