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lucian1900

I'm undecided about save/export in applications that support multiple formats. I think users should certainly be warned if they're making a lossy save, but perhaps they should all be in the same dialog.

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The drawback of making it a single dialog box in the user experience is that the "current name" changes when you use "Save as...". So if you do a "Save" next time, you save it as the exported name and format instead of the original one. If, for example, your export format is .png, and your original format is layered, this could bite you. Also you keep flipping between two names.

Sometimes an "autoexport on save" feature would be nice. Export it to the derived format as well as save the original file with one keypress.

In Gimp, however, if you save to a format that does not support layers when your image has layers, you get a warning. Likewise if you save to a lossy format like JPEG you get a warning. Every time.

This works for me. YMMV.

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