Comment 5 for bug 375323

I hate to ask a dumb question, but is this the origin of Bug 284680, which I personally find very upsetting?
If this is the case, then it seems that ideally we should have three different options for saving text:
1. save as glyphs (or what I previously thought was a bitmap because it looked 'binary')
2. save as a path, which is important to people using equipment like desktop cutting plotters
3. save as actual text, which is what I assume the originator of this report wants