On Apr 25, 2013, at 11:01:08, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org>
wrote:
> "PDFpen 6.0.2 is now available from Smile. This update includes an option to
> turn off autosave and versions."
Good. More apps need to offer that ability.
> Hmmmm. Two bug fixes after Autosave and Versions was adopted with great
> fanfare in 6.0.0.
>
> Indeed, there are some users, some documents, and maybe even some apps for
> which ("Lion") Auto Save and Versions is not appropriate. Anyhow, I'm glad
> that you and your marketeers appear to have have thought this through and
> know what you're doing.
Saving in place is not something most users expect, because it hasn't been done
that way on all the common platforms. I can't begin to count the number of
times I've opened documents, edited them in some way, not intending to save
those changes. Maybe I just needed to, say, find an image in a particular layer
of some image editing app, so I hid some layers. That sort of thing. But doing
something as simple as quitting means those changes will automatically change
my actual document file without even asking if I want to discard them. That's
just dangerous. What if some other app is using that file? The autosaved
changes *to the actual file* will affect that other app. It's just a horrible
idea. Autosave as loss prevention in the event of a crash? Good idea. Autosave
to dumb down the user experience? Bad idea.
--
Steve Mills
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