Questions on upgrading file formats for OO3

[John McKenzie]

On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at 03:05 PM, Timothy J. Wood wrote:

> 	- At a minimum, we want to prompt the user if they are using features 
> that aren't supported by the target format
> 		- Even, this could be annoying... say you export to plain text; it 
> would be annoying to get a warning that images can't be saved in plain 
> text.
> 	- Might be nice to warn them the second they do something that isn't 
> supported, but this would be easy to get wrong, leading to tons of 
> annoying panels.

Photoshop handles this reasonably well. Checkboxes at the bottom of the 
save dialog for various features dim themselves out if not available in 
the chosen format, and the "as a copy" checkbox then gets turned on. 
This is better than a modal warning, IMHO.

John McKenzie