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help system Piers Cornwell <piers.cornwell@bigfoot.com> who has taken the burden to continue this project Karin and Olof started. --Sven
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HTML
46 lines
2.3 KiB
HTML
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>File Save or Save As</TITLE>
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</HEAD>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088">
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<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
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<TR bgcolor="black">
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">File Save or
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Save As</FONT></TD>
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</TR>
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<TR bgcolor="white" >
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<TD width="100%" align="left"><P>
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<P>
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File save lets you save your file either by it's extension e.g save a file.xcf
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as a a XCF image. The XCF file format is Gimps native file format and is
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the preferred format to save all your images in. You can of course
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save as e.g TIFF or JPEG but all the specific Gimp image information will
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be lost (i.e the information about layers, channels, parasites, etc).
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<P>
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When you save a image in a non Gimp format (i.e not as a XCF or XJT image)
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will get the opportunity to export it. By exporting it you will be sure of
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getting all the visual image information saved in the non native format.
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If you Ignore export then only the currently active layer will be saved.
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<P>
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The save dialog works like any other file dialogs but you also have two ways
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to fast navigation. Tab completion, e.g if you have a directory /gimp and
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the save dialog is currently with in the /home/gimp directly. Then you only
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have to type /gi and hit tab and the name will be completed (It works
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just like tab completion in bash or tchs sells in UNIX or if you have turned
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it on as tab completion in the cms in NT). You also have a drop down directory
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menu which will enable you to quickly move up in the directory hirarcy.
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<P>
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To even extend the opportunity you can create directories, delete and rename
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files in the save dialog. Creating directories is very handy since often
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end up doing a new image for a new project before you made a directory to
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contain images for the project. However you must sometimes step up and down
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once in the directory hierarcy before Gimp will be able to see the new directory.
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<P>
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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</TD>
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</TR>
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</TABLE>
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</BODY></HTML>
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