[bksvol-discuss] Re: rtf files and MS Word
- From: "Lynn I" <lynnskyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 21:20:53 -0600
Hi Melissa!
This happened to me when I downloaded a book of Valerie's. The file was
huge. It was like the machine locked up. After it was copied into another
document and saved as an RTF file, it became much smaller and still retained
all of the formatting in terms of page breaks, font styles, page numbering,
etc. Valerie had used Word 2007, so she and I both thought it was because of
all of the formatting and controls characters added by Word 2007. I've not
had this happened with Word 2003, but that must be what's happened for you.
--
Blessings.
Lynnsky
"To deny the need for and the teaching of Braille is to limit choice. It
inhibits one's freedom. You can never choose to use what you have not
learned."
(A Lynn I original quotation.)
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: rtf files and MS Word
I figured it would get a bit larger, but I was concerned when it was more
than double the size. Not to mention the fact that my harddrive, or
processor doesn't seem to like it. It seems to think it has to work to hard.
Melissa
Soronel Haetir wrote:
> RTF is an extremely unwieldy format and other than the minor
> inconvenience of larger files this is nothing to worry about. The
> main reason that files grow like this in Office is that Office places
> formatting around every paragraph instead of leaving it be from one
> paragraph to the next. I've also seen Office files where the first
> 60% is all font identification, with bits about every font on the
> system being inserted just in case you want to use it somewhere, even
> though you in fact only use a few of them.
>
> The unwieldy nature of RTF is one reason I am somewhat surprised that
> bookshare uses it, though it's well supported by editing tools which I
> figure is its main benefit.
>
> On 2/1/10, Melissa Smith <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I just scanned a book with Kurzwiel 11 and saved it as an rtf file.
>> When I did that, it was approximately 1.5 MB. I opened it in MS Word
>> 2002, standardized font, surrounded page breaks with blank lines,
>> removed extra blank lines, and extra spaces. Now it is over 4 MB. Any
>> ideas what is causing this? I don't have track changes enabled. That
>> was the only thing I could think of that would be adding so much
information.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Melissa
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