When working with big files, in my case spreadsheets, but possibly other types of office files, saving the file will in some cases take a lot of time. This is particularly annoying when auto-saving is enabled. As I understand it, an ODF is a couple of files, most of them XML files, brought together in a single file, then compressed to the zip format.
Does the ODF standard specify the compression ratio? If not, it would be convenient if the user could specify that. For example, if I prefer saving to be as fast as possible, I could specify no compression at all, just bring the files together in a tar-ball (if that's allowed) or as an uncompressed zip. I don't know how much of the required time to save a file is used for compression, but I imagine that there is room for speed enhancements here. If this is not the way to go, maybe the extension could change as well, indicating this is another file format, although conversion to and from ODF should be very straight forward… Thoughts about this? Personally I just thing that something must be done about the auto-save speed. And also, when opening a spreadsheet, ”adapting row heights”, what is that? Is that really necessary? Shouldn't row heights already be specified in the ODF file? It's maybe not the same subject, but in a way it is about time consuming saving and opening of different kinds of ODF files… Johnny Rosenberg -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@sv.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/sv/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
