On Thursday 31 October 2002 5:31 pm, David Faure wrote: | On Thursday 31 October 2002 12:09, Vadim Plessky wrote: | > On Thursday 31 October 2002 1:07 pm, David Faure wrote: [...] | | > I will check files on disk, and send to you off-list. | | Here's the result: it's not the packaging that changes the size, it's the | contents! | | Old (koffice-1.1 tar.gz) file (2281 bytes) | - -rw-r--r-- 1 dfaure dfaure 433 jui 12 2001 documentinfo.xml | - -rw-r--r-- 1 dfaure dfaure 38835 jui 12 2001 maindoc.xml | | New (koffice-1.2, zip) file (10852 bytes) | - -rw-rw-r-- 1 dfaure dfaure 565 oct 31 14:50 documentinfo.xml | - -rw-rw-r-- 1 dfaure dfaure 44645 oct 31 14:50 maindoc.xml | - -rw-rw-r-- 1 dfaure dfaure 19 oct 31 14:50 mimetype | - -rw-rw-r-- 1 dfaure dfaure 7607 oct 31 14:50 preview.png | | The main difference is the preview saved into the file. That's 7000 bytes | that don't compress. The other difference is the XML being a bit bigger, | due to the added features in 1.2 (mostly the frame styles and table styles | being saved into the document. This is _fixed_ size, the bigger the | document is, the less important the difference will be, in proportion). Ok, thanks for clarification, now it's clear to me. Can I disable preview generation somewhere? | | Summary: files are 7K bigger because of the preview PNG, *not* | because of the ZIP packaging format. Nice to know :-) In fact, I has been quite confused by the fact of "KWord file growth", as most of my test files indeed were about 2K-4K in size, and grown in size significantly after KWord upgrade (to 1.2) | | - -- | David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel