On 9/17/10, Igor Novikov wrote:

>> Yes, the plan was to have it by now :)
>>
>> There was a failed Google Summer of Code 2010 project to rework
>> saving/exporting and add various additional file formats to the
>> current Export Bitmap dialog.
>>
>> Will it be implemented? Eventually. When? When someone volunteers.
>
> There is another possible way. sK1 Project has started similar work for TIFF
> format support as output.
> So may be this issue will be resolved using UniConvertor.

Only as a workaround. There is a somewhat popular demand to export
selections to TIFF, JPEG, SVG, EPS and even PDF. That means you can't
just  'Save a copy' like now, you need to extend functionality of the
existing dialog. I really am not sure that UC would be of any help
here.