Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 76)

56 Saving Files Writing and Editing
Saving files
Nisus Writer Express offers you several ways to save a document.
You can ignore saving your documents entirely. Nisus Writer Express (with the Autosave preference
turned on) automatically gives your document a name, based on the content of the first line, and
stores the file in the following folder
~/Documents/Nisus Documents
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You can easily find and open these documents using the Document Manager illustrated in Figure 81
on page 95. (Choose Document Manager from the Window menu and open the file you want.)
In addition, you can explicitly save your files by choosing Save As… from the File menu. When you
save your file for the first time by choosing Save As… from the File menu, Nisus Writer Express
opens the Save As dialog and places the first few words of the document in the filename field at the
top of the dialog. This also enables you to rename or save your file in a variety of formats and
encodings.The following alternatives explain the various methods of saving your files
• Save
saves changes to the selected drive;
• Save As…
saves changes as a new file and allows you to continue editing that file with a new name
(leaving the original file with its original name);
• Save In Document Manager
saves the changes to the Nisus Documents folder in the Documents folder;
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Some files that Nisus Writer Express creates can only be read (opened) by Nisus Writer Express as text
files (for example a PDF file). Nisus Writer Express opens HTML files as they would appear in a Web
browser. You can, however, also edit these files in Nisus Writer Express. For instructions see “Save a
Nisus Writer Express document as an HTML document” on page 256.
Formats of saved files
Nisus Writer Express makes a slight distinction between “saving” and “exporting” files.
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Save As… should always preserve document content. Any format under Export As… cannot be
trusted to fully preserve document information. No “export” format will preserve all the important
information—even if the document “looks” right, important things, such as styles, may not persist.
You can save a Nisus Writer Express document (in order of preferred format):
Save As…
• as a Rich Text Format (RTF) file. This is the preferred format, so others can read your files.
• as a Document Template (DOT). When saved in this manner, every time you open the file, it
opens as “Untitled” with all the text and formatting present when you saved it.
• as a Microsoft Word (97 and later also known as “.doc”) format file.
• as a Rich Text Format Directory (RTFD) file. This is similar to RTF, but saves any graphics in
the file in a separate folder from the text of the file. This file format is generally not recognized
by non-Macintosh computers
• as a (plain) text file (no formatting is saved).
• as a Nisus Macro file.
• as a Nisus Perl Macro file.
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You can set your preferred format for saved files in the Saving preferences of Nisus Writer
Express as explained in “Choose the Way in Which Files Save” on page 221.
Export As…
• as a Rich Text Format (for older applications, such as AppleWorks) file.
• as an HTML file.
Print…
• as a PostScript file as explained in “Create a PostScript file of your Nisus Writer Express
document” on page 216. This is actually a “print” format and not a “save” format. Therefore the
option does not appear in the Save as dialog.
• as a PDF (Portable Document Format) file as explained in “Create a PDF file of your Nisus
Writer Express document” on page 216. This is actually a “print” format and not a “save”
format. Therefore the option does not appear in the Save as dialog.