On 8-3-2013 19:15, John Cliff wrote:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/export
I've always taken export to mean what 3) on that page says -
Hi John,
I think a dictionary definition makes for a very bad argument, no? ;-) We stick/mold a word onto functionality, not the other way around.
like I said, I believe its wrong that we claim to open anything other than SVG, we dont, we import/translate them into an svg with varying levels of success. likewise, we can only save an svg, anything else is an export with a varying level of compatability.
You are correct that we translate everything to SVG. It is a good point. We have to translate to SVG, there is no other way for the code to handle things!
But, don't you agree that being able to use Inkscape as if it is a PDF-editor is nice? (I mean the open/edit/save workflow, in contrast to a (worst-case) open new/import/edit/export workflow, where the export button means you have to click more stuff to select file type, etc, and there not being a quick shortcut like Ctrl+S). We shouldn't advertise Inkscape as a PDF-editor, but it would be a shame to remove the functionality and it would make me very sad.
Cheers, Johan