Your original .txt file is just plain uncompressed text, but when you
convert the file over to an opendocument format, it is changed into an
XML format plus accompanying styles, images, embedded fonts, etc, etc.
There are actually a lot of individual files that make of an
opendocument file, we just don't see them because they are all zipped
together. The zipping provides a lot of compression to the file that
the .txt files doesn't have, so even with the extra bloat that
libreoffice adds to the files, it's still smaller than the original .txt
file.
On a side nore, you can actually use the unzip command to pull apart an
.odt file and play with it's contents. You can also use zip to put them
back together, but there is one particular file that needs to be
included without any compression, but the name of that file isn't coming
to mind at the moment.
Brian Cluff
On 09/10/2013 01:45 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Here is the dir list for the text before, the odt,
and the text after exporting from the odt:
90601 Sep 10 00:51 soteria.txt -- original
45851 Sep 10 01:14 soteria.odt -- imported to libre
90503 Sep 10 01:17 soteria2.txt -- exported from libre
I've uploaded each file here:
http://www.upquick.com/temp/soteria.txt -- before
http://www.upquick.com/temp/soteria.odt
http://www.upquick.com/temp/soteria2.txt -- after
===== Dazed replied =====
Not the same results I get so I would have to ask how you
are doing it with examples and tell us if you are measuring
all with the same tool. For example, Here are the wc counts
for a text file I created, imported into Libre Office, then
saved as an odt and as a doc file and finally re-saved
as a txt file (the one with the 2 appended.
larry@hammerhead:~/Documents/Misc$ wc Ed*
8 306 19456 Edmund Prescott Thiel.doc
80 324 17242 Edmund Prescott Thiel.odt
24 168 974 Edmund Prescott Thiel.txt
24 168 961 Edmund Prescott Thiel2.txt
136 966 38633 total
===== Joe original asked =====
Why is it that when I import a text file into libre office
and then export the same text as an .odt document, the
resulting document has a smaller word count and smaller
character count than the original text file has?
Then if I save the same .odt document as a .txt file, the
resulting .txt file is bigger than the .odt file (actually
almost the same size as the original text file).
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