Re: Ridiculously large save files in Word 2008
- From: John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:28:27 +0800
Hi Matt:
Great! You have found the problem.
In all my waffle yesterday, I am not sure I properly explained the "Graphics
Bloat Problem" built in to Word, but that's what it was.
When you open a Word document, Word creates a copy of each image in its
native format for display purposes. It leaves that image stored in the
document to save having to create it again. If you then open a document on
a different version of Word, it creates another copy of the image in its own
native format, leaving the other one in place.
This is a very poor design, but Microsoft does not think it is important
enough to change it.
Cheers
On 12/07/08 6:16 AM, in article 59b53da4.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"mattbacon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mattbacon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's a great answer, John, and full of helpful tips for many circumstances.
I think making a "maggie" is effectively what I did. I don't think, though,
that the graphic logo is the problem. I opened it out of the document into
Photoshop, and it's only 378 pixels square in 8 bit RGB. Saved as PNG it's
128K, saved as a Windows BMP/16 it's 320K.
I think the "stranded RTF" must be the problem. The document arrived as a DOC
file in a mail attachment. Attached, it's 4.77MB. Opened in Word 2004 and
saved as a DOC file, it's 3.5MB. Saved from 2004 as an RTF, it's 17.4MB. Saved
from 2008 as an RTF, it's 19MB. "maggied" as described, and saved as an RTF in
2004, it's 324K and 200K in DOC format.
Clearly something "invisible" in the original Word DOC, which Word encoded
"relatively" efficiently in 'only' 3.3 MB excess, is bloating to 17.1MB in
RTF. Fonts, maybe?
bestest,
M.
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