Linux At Work

[George Toft]

I noticed if one used Word 95 or RTF formats, that all of your changes
will be saved as well.  I experienced this kind of "growth" when a group
of us were developing a project.  We passed the manual around via
e-mail, and 30K of text plus 2MB of screenshots grew to 15MB after it
made the rounds.  A file that size becomes very difficult to mail.

George


David Uhlman wrote:
> 
> I just ran a test to check and this appears correct.
> Without further investigation I suspect it may be that the screenshots in
> the ms word document get stored as windows bitmap if you use the ms word 95
> format. I did not have the problem if I saved as msword 97/2000/xp format. I
> am using openoffice 1.01.
> 
> Sincerely,
> David Uhlman
> CTO 50km Inc.
> office(877-571-7679)
> mobile(602-770-9551)
> fax(509-752-3882)
> email(duhlman@50km.com)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charlie Bullen" <pcello@mindspring.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 12:02 PM
> Subject: Linux At Work
> 
> Hello, yesterday at work, one of my co workers emailed me several MS word
> documents created with MS word from Office XP Small Business edition. Each
> file consisted of some text and 20 to 25 screen shots.  File sizes ranging
> from 450 to 800 K. I had no problem opening these in Open Office running
> under linux. If I modified the files and saved them in Open Office's native
> format, the file sizes remained about the same size. If I saved them in MS
> Word format though, the file sizes went through the roof. For example the
> 800K file went to about 25megs.
> 
> I haven't noticed this happening with files that contain only text, so I
> think it hassomething to do with how Open office is storing the graphics.
> Any Idea how to reduce the file size back to a manageable level. I don't
> know how open office stores the graphics but hopefully there is some way of
> modifyng the fle type. The purpose of this is to create a training manual
> which will be used first by windows users and then if all goes well, linux
> users.
> 
> Charlie
> 
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