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 weighed-up the pros-and-cons Regards from Tom :) On 13 January 2014 18:26, Cley Faye <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014/1/13 Regina Henschel <[email protected]> > >> 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 http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument- >> v1.2-os-part3.html#__RefHeading__752789_826425813 >> >> > Agreed. > It *is* possible to achieve better compression than ZIP (we knew how to do > that for quite some time ;) ), but to do so we would need a new iteration > of the OpenDocument standard. While it's not totally out of question, I > have the feeling that increasing fragmentation just to save space on office > files is not a good trade-off. Remember that ODT files are used by many > pieces of software, not only LibreOffice. > OpenOffice of course, but some part of google export, some less-known > office suite, various custom software that output their reports as odt > files... even mso got to implement it. I doubt a new version of the > standard would be a good thing while it is still functionnal. > > > -- > Cley Faye > http://cleyfaye.net > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
