mudhut Posted May 13, 2022 Posted May 13, 2022 As per the thread title. Replication: Open any image file; File -> Export; Select output type (or leave unchanged); Click Export button; Change filename (or leave unchanged); Click Save button. At this point, the original file is now flagged as "Modified" and attempting to close it brings up another dialogue box that shouldn't have opened in order to save or ignore the non-existent change. Makes no difference what file type is opened, what type is saved or if the filename is changed. It's not the most serious bug in the world but a bug it definitely is and quite irritating too if you use AP to do a lot format conversion with many files. AD does the same... Quote
walt.farrell Posted May 13, 2022 Posted May 13, 2022 31 minutes ago, mudhut said: It's not the most serious bug in the world but a bug it definitely is and quite irritating too if you use AP to do a lot format conversion with many files. The file has been modified, as you can see if you look at the History panel. Specifically, the export settings have been updated, so they are available the next time you choose to export it. It may not be a visible change to the image content of the file, but it is a change to the file itself. Many users have complained about this, but it is working as it was designed to work, as any change in the file History marks the file as modified. There are feature requests to improve this. Old Bruce and PaulEC 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
mudhut Posted May 15, 2022 Author Posted May 15, 2022 Thank you for getting back on this so promptly. Prior to posting I had a quick look to see if the bug had been reported but had found nothing much but further searching has turned revealed previous inquiries. I think that my issue is that exporting a file should not constitute a change to any of its content and unexpected behaviour such as this is seen as a bug when in fact it is not but more of a design flaw. I'd support the requests to improve this behavior. Quote
walt.farrell Posted May 15, 2022 Posted May 15, 2022 You're welcome. By the way, I have several other applications that behave this way with Printing an otherwise unchanged document, as the Print settings are saved within the document. So this design paradigm is not something unique to the Affinity applications. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
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