On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Adonis Papaderos <ado.papas@...1244...> wrote:
For me working as user I would appreciate if I do not have to set options, execute extensions etc. it should run in automaticaly background. (maybe a popup: "you file has been converted to inkscape version 0.48")
This might be intresting, but if the user decides to not do the conversion? should we mark it as uneditable and revert to the old rendering? (editing is extremelly difficult to implement with these different behaviors coexisting)
Illustrator 13 pops up a dialog upon opening version 14 or newer files that is basically "Import or Cancel". This works fine for me because:
A - the conversion works >90% of the time B - I *know* that something might have been altered, so also I know that I should inspect the drawing carefully
Not that Illustrator is my favorite program - just thought I'd throw that out there since IMO they took a decent approach to the forward-compatibility problem ;) I'm all for automatically converting as long as it's clear that something has been changed, and the file is marked 'dirty'.
Chris