Jeremy Morris wrote:
OK thanks Livio, I understand the point. But I've done a few more tests
and am now more confused:
1) Create blank document on OO on Linux. Save as .odt. Size=6985
2) Create blank document on OO on Linux. Save as .doc. Size=95744
3) Create blank document on OO on Windows. Save as .odt. Size=8192
4) Create blank document on OO on Windows. Save as .doc. Size=8192
5) Copy blank .doc file from Windows to Linux. Size=8192
6) Open blank .doc file in OO on Linux and save as .doc. Size now=95744
But...
7) Copy Linux .odt to Windows. Save as .odt. Size=8192
8) Copy Linux .doc to Windows. Save as .doc. Size=8192
So it appears that an empty .doc file on Linux needs about 95K, while on
Windows it only needs 8K. These are all created by OO, don't forget -
I've not used MS-Word at all in this set of tests.
I don't know what fonts are stored in a document with no content - I
assume just the defaults, but even so that seems a lot for a blank file.
If I zip the .doc file the size drops to 1400, which is nice, but I
can't send zipped files to my remote site (it's automated and won't
recognise them)
So does anyone have any idea why OO on Linux thinks an empty file needs
a 95K overhead?
Lívio Cipriano wrote:
On 20 September 2006 17:36, Johnny Andersson wrote:
answered the questions 2 and 3
Let me point you that those were not questions, but sequential steps.
The questions was:
"Is this a known feature, bug, problem etc? "
My answer was
"Both ODS and DOC formats embed the fonts used to produce the document
in the file..."
This is only one possible reason that can explain the discrepancy of
the file sizes. We don't even know if the fonts used in Windows are
the same that in Linux.
Lívio
This is quite interesting. It would be nice to see what the differences
between the two *.doc (win<>linux) files are. Is it something simple as
as saving blank space or more complicated.
Bug report time.
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Robin Laing
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