On 2010-3-7 2:15 AM, Dave and Anna Whitehouse wrote: > I guess I have missed something.. > Can anyone enlighten me?
ODF is already compressed. The default file format for OpenOffice is the OpenDocument Format, shared by other applications. By default ODF is already compressed using Zip. See p31 for details of Zip in ODF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/OpenDocument-v1.2-part3.odt If you are paying by the byte or have bandwidth caps, then I would strongly encourage using some kind of upload service for file sharing if you want to show word processing documents. E-mail is not designed for transferring binaries like photos, so they have to get encoded as ASCII before they can be sent. http://techhelp.santovec.us/decode.htm That increases the size of a photo, by at least 3X as it sits in your inbox. Even a short, one page text-only e-mail will be 100X larger as MS Word 97/2000/XP format than a plain e-mail with no attachment. ODF is much more efficient, but still not as resource friendly as plain text for e-mail. Your ISP probably already provides a web service for you. If so, grab a copy of FileZilla or Fugu and use that to upload the files you created with OpenOffice. If some level of privacy is needed, you ISP also has instructions on how to use .htaccess (often via a point-n-click menu) to put a password on the directory. Then you can send the URL. /Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
