Re: [Usability] Save As or Export when going to lossey formats?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

Steven Garrity wrote:

> > A few applications (but not many) include an Export menu for formats like
> > PNG or other raster graphics where data will be lost (and usually 
> > there is
> > no corresponding open/import for that format).
> > (I realise the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines recommend using the
> > term Sava a Copy instead of Export, but in some applications Export did
> > have more meaning to it than that).

A common rule of thumb (and the one I generally recommended pre-HIG) was 
Save As for formats that your application can re-load and edit (e.g. 
SXW, DOC in OpenOffice), and Export for ones that it can't (e.g. PDF).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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