Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs

2014-01-16 Thread frank ernest
>Also, you should warn microsoft before their docx stuff get in the wild >too, as they also use the zip file format. Here I thought that some of the ideas behind opensource was that it would promote better/some kind of standards. It's ok though. There are greater problems out there then lack of

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs

2014-01-13 Thread frank ernest
Acctually I thought that it was kinda obvious and I was thinking that you'd want to fix it before your ODT standard was widly adopted. It would be easier to change the code of 10 programs then 1000 once you finally retire the standard. You could also develop a split in the standard and call the f

[libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs.

2014-01-11 Thread frank ernest
I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs. tar -c dir | xz -4 -e >> file.tar.xz 16,760 tar.xz 21,919 odt 76.46334230576213% If you were really crazy you could use a custom filter chain to knock off an additional 0.4927232081755619%. xz -k -C sha256 --lzma2=dict=64

[libreoffice-users] Creating a good looking document with videos in it

2013-07-18 Thread frank ernest
Hi, I wanted to create a document that containes videos as a help manual but libreoffice can't place them in html or pdf format as a resualt if I redistribute the doc the end user will open it up in libreoffice and all the tecnical terms will turn red (if spell check is enabled,) the vidios will