Graham Lauder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 08:24:28 Twayne wrote: >> Hi, >> >> XP Pro, 512 RAM, 2.7 GHz P4, reasonably sure free of virus/malware. ...
First things first: New Zealand is the ONLY country in the world I wanted to visit, and never got to! Spent quite a bit of time during the late 60's in OZ, specifically Qld, mapping the Great Barrier from Garbutt, but never managed to jump that little, last bit of the pond. Gladda meetcha! OK, on to more mundane matters<g>: > This is good news; thanks for your response. More Inline: > Hi Twayne, > > I'm trying to figure your problem because I rarely have an issue with > this . My assumption is that you created the document in MSWord and > then opened the resulting doc with Writer. Does your document have a > lot of graphics. I'm just asking because 100 megs for a 400 page > document seem a bit on the high side. Your assumption is correct. And yes it has quite a few images in it. Some are freeform and some are in tables; probably a 50-50 mix. Most but not all were sized for the book before import, so that resizing wasn't necessary and either .gif's or .jpg's, mostly jpegs, most in color. > > If I'm going to edit a document in Writer that has been created in > Word I open it with OOo, copy all the text and then paste > special>unformatted text into a new document. This gets rid of all > of the garbage that word puts into the background of the document and > that includes styles then I reformat using Stylist. If I'm in a > hurry I'll sometimes use paste special>formatted text(rtf) I'll give it a try. > > Word users tend to format on the fly and that means that each bit of > formatting is a separate piece of code which tends to make them a > little on the heavy side. Everytime a word document is closed, saved > then reopened more garbage is added. I was careful with styles (Word's Styles) and kept them to a minimum but I think I understand what you mean. I also see some strange symbols in the OOo docs between words, where AFAIK Word doesn't put information, but ... I'll bet the paste would remove those too. They look like the old ascii representation of a half-gray block. Saving got rid of them once, but then the document corrupted and wouldn't allow itself to be recovered, so ... . > > Take for instance this document > http://www.minedu.govt.nz/web/downloadable/dl8030_v1/cat-newsletter-8.doc > > The download size on my comp is 4.2 MB > > After copy>paste special>formatted text the file is now 90.6kb. A > couple of graphics were dumped and I had to create a landscape style > to get some tables to display properly, but nothing major.(try it > yourself you'll see what I mean) > > Now, I add the caveat that I'm using SuSELinux rather than windows > but I doubt that there would be a great difference. Very possible, still worth trying. ... > > Get rid of all the garbage however by doing paste special and you can > do a lot better and OOo will deal with it very quickly. > > Cheers > GL I'll spend some time with it and see what happens. For whatever reason it never occurred to me to try copy/paste special, although it's a favorite way of mine for "fixing" Word docs<g>! I'll let you know. Thanks again, Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
