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

2014-01-16 Thread Cley Faye
2014/1/16 frank ernest do...@mail.com 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

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

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be good to contact the developers about that. Perhaps post a bug-report and then use the drop-downs to turn into a feature request for someone keen to jump on. 76% is huge!! Regards from Tom :) On 11 January 2014 21:52, frank ernest do...@mail.com wrote: I think you could

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

2014-01-13 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Frank, frank ernest schrieb: 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% there is no choice, how to compress the package, because it is defined in the standard, see

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

2014-01-13 Thread Cley Faye
2014/1/13 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de Hi Frank, frank ernest schrieb: 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% there is no choice, how to compress the

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

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, ok :) That makes sense now. It is, of course, possible to put several Odt documents inside another zipped file and that should benefit from the higher compression rate. I guess the feature request would be passed on to the OASIS committee but it sounds like they have probably already

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

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

2014-01-13 Thread V Stuart Foote
: frank ernest [mailto:do...@mail.com] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 4:39 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs Acctually I thought that it was kinda obvious and I was thinking that you'd want

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

2014-01-13 Thread Cley Faye
2014/1/13 frank ernest do...@mail.com 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