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- From: jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning)
- Subject: Re: Photoshop: "Save" does the same thing as "Save As..."?!?!?!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.174623.24511@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:46:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.084645.19698@uwasa.fi> te@uwasa.fi (Tuomas Eerola) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.144343.28940@Princeton.EDU> jdunning@picasso.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning) writes:
- >>"Save" and "Save As..." function as they should when you're working
- >>with Photoshop-format files. But if you open a TIFF file, say, then
- >>make a change to it, and select "Save", it asks you for the file name
- >>again. Also, if you import an EPS file and save the imported version
- >>to another name, the original version stays open, rather than that
- >>window receiving the new name.
- >>
- >>Having to type in the name every time I want to save is a real pain,
- >>especially since some of the formats, like TIFF, make you go through
- >>seconday dialog boxes when you do "Save As...".
- >>
- >>Am I doing something wrong or is this Photoshop's fault? I'm running
- >>v.2.0.1 on a Quadra 700 with System 7.0.1.
- >>
- >>Thanks,
- >>John
- >
- >All programs behave like that! At least those text-prosessing programs I know.
- >If you import something with non-native format it treats it as a new document.
- >If you save something with some other format it does not change name.
- >Try it with something else than photoshop!
- >
- >Tuomas
-
- Yes, if you import a non-native format with a word processor you usually
- end up with an untitled document. And that makes a certain amount of
- sense, because you may have lost some information in the translation and
- the word processor probably can't save documents in that non-native format.
-
- But the situation is different with Photoshop, because TIFF, GIF, Targa, etc.
- are all standard file formats readable and saveable by any decent image
- processor. If word processors worked like that, you'd get an untitled
- window if you opened a plain TEXT-type document.
-
- The only time it would be reasonable for Photoshop to open a new
- document would be when importing an EPS file. You're losing information
- since you're taking the bitmapped screen representation and throwing
- out the PostScript commands. But in this case Photoshop gives you a
- window with the same name as the EPS file. And if you Save or Save As...
- from this file and change the name, the window name changes to the new
- name only if you saved as a Photoshop file.
-
- This is very weird, idiosyncratic, counter-intuitive and just plain bad
- behavior in an otherwise exceptionally well-written program. Hopefully
- it will be fixed in v.2.5 as some have suggested here.
-
- John
-