Sorry, that's doesn't resolve the problem for me.
When I create an OO file in Linux, and save it as a MS-Word format
(.doc) the file is much, much larger than the equivalent .odt file. It
is also much larger than the .doc file created if I am using a Windows
platform.
My test file contains a single character, the letter "a". Even embedding
the font used won't take that much space.
If I take the large Linux .doc file and copy it to my Windows box, it
reports the full size. If I then change the single character to "A" and
save it, the resulting Windows .doc file is a lot smaller.
I need to know this because I regularly send documents to a remote
system that has a file size limit of 200K. I have had a number of .doc
files rejected because they exceeded this value. Copying them to my
Windows platform and sending from there, the files were all much smaller
and thus able to be sent. But I don't want to have to keep transferring
files to a Windows box just to get them to an acceptable (ie realistic)
size. Even with a whole font embedded, there's no way that a file
containing a single unformatted character is going to be 95.7K in size!
It's definitely a Linux thing - something is padding the data.
Lívio Cipriano wrote:
On 19 September 2006 10:04, Jeremy Morris wrote:
2) save file as .odt file. Size reported as 7106 bytes
3) save file as .doc file. Size reported as 95,744 bytes ( !!! )
Both ODS and DOC formats embed the fonts used to produce the document in the
file. Besides, OO ODS is a zip file (you can open it with an unzip tool).
That is one of the reasons why ODS files are bigger then SXW. I think that
will answer your questions.
Lívio
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