Adding "Save History with Document" as a default in app preferences

[Jacob Williams]

Hi, I've checked around the forum and I've seen this question come up before, so I'll mention it again.

Can we please have the ability to have "Save History with Document" as a default in app preferences. I like to have my history saved with my work so I can backtrack if I don't like something in the future, and often forget to click it before I save.

Thanks!

[krbo]

Supporting this! 

Would be a very useful option.

[zecanard]

The warning is that anyone will be able to see every change I made to an image. But if I want to share my work, I will export it in a format that doesn’t support history, such as JPEG. This is a needless privacy measure, in my opinion.

[Pyanepsion]

Saving the history of work sessions is not as good an idea as it sounds.

When you work all day on a document with many additions, it can end up saturating the memory and slowing down the actions in the software.

On the other hand, it may be nice to be able to save the history on demand (for rare use cases) in a single external file that can be loaded on demand. The history should certainly not be stored in the work file itself. In this case, the previous choice of whether or not to save to an external file is, of course, preserved from session to session, but only for each individual project: for example, I would want to save the history of a complicated or long job, but certainly not of all jobs; checking or unchecking another project would not change my choices on the current project.

[loukash]

4 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:

it might be nice to be able to save the history on demand (for rare cases of use) in a single external file that can be loaded on demand.

1. let's say you've been working on "My layout.afpub"
2. enable Save History With Document
3. Save As: "My layout with history.afpub"
4. disable Save History With Document
5. Save As: "My layout.afpub" to restore your original version

[Pyanepsion]

I misspoke in English. I meant that sometimes, rarely, it can be useful to save the history and it is possible.

[Glassed Silver]

Whether or not we want to live with the downsides of setting that as a default should be up to the user and how they like to work.

It's not uncommon for history to be saved in files and is the whole point of having non-destructive editing software. To downplay the value of it seems unnecessary if we're just talking about offering the OPTION.

[n_shcherbakov]

I support the idea. It should be possible to set this by default.