[Okular-devel] [Bug 258475] "save as" wipes out all annotations and closes document without warning

[Raphael]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258475





--- Comment #3 from Raphael <drraph gmail com>  2010-12-01 21:54:56 ---
No sorry that isn't the point. 

The steps were as above so I had at this point never saved the annotations at
all and was overwriting a file I didn't care about (file.okular) not the
original file.pdf which I did care about. The problem is not the overwriting
per se. The problem is that a) it loses all your annotations when you choose
save as instead of export it seems (without warning) and b) it then reloads
automatically which has the effect of closing the document you are annotating
so you can't fix the problem by then exporting correctly.

To be clearer, when editing a document in word processor, say, and you save a
copy on top of an old one, it will usually say "warning you are overwriting"
but it doesn't mean "warning you are overwriting with something that is
unusable so you will lose both the old and the new version." In fact OpenOffice
does give a warning about losing formatting when you save in the wrong format
which is sort of relevant and might be of interest.

What I think would be better would be a message that warns that you have chosen
the wrong option and are saving a document with annotations.  That is you will
lose all your work unless you choose  'export as' instead.

Actually, even better would be if the "export as" option disappeared and "save
as" just had a drop down list of formats, one of which supported annotations.

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