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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