On Monday 13 August 2012 18:58:24 maderios
wrote:
> On 08/13/2012 03:55 PM, Jim Clark wrote:
> > I have just downloaded a sound
processing program called Audacity.
> > Putzed around, hit save and was
told "This will save in Audacity's
> > native format; for wave files use
'Export'." I was telling my son
> > about the grief the developers were
taking and, surprise, that's how
> > Audacity does the same thing and he
said, "That's also how Photoshop
> > does it."
>
> You confuse professional and amateur
work.....
> I'm Audacity user. It works well for
"amateurs", not for professionnal
> people. You can't compare it with Gimp.
Gimp is used by professional.
> When you build an image, it needs
hundred and hundred operations.
> Imagine You may create images every
day... The new weird and boring
> Gimp-2.8 behavior (concerning "save" or
"save as" functions) is not
> compatible with professional work.
Sorry...
>
> Regards
> Maderios
LibreOffice is another good example. If you
open a .doc and Save, it will ask you if you want to save it in
native Open Document format. Inkscape will not save a PNG, you'd
need to Export it. Save will make your file an SVG or SVGZ.
Libreoffice doesnt ask you, you choose or write what you want.