Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs.

Hi :)
Ahh, ok :)  That makes sense now.

It is, of course, possible to put several Odt documents inside another
zipped file and that should benefit from the higher compression rate.

I guess the "feature request" would be passed on to the OASIS
committee but it sounds like they have probably already weighed-up the
pros-and-cons
Regards from
Tom :)


On 13 January 2014 18:26, Cley Faye <cleyfaye@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014/1/13 Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de>
>
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > frank ernest schrieb:
> >
> >  I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs.
> > > tar -c dir | xz -4 -e >> file.tar.xz
> > >
> > > 16,760 tar.xz
> > > 21,919 odt
> > >
> > > 76.46334230576213%
> >
> > there is no choice, how to compress the package, because it is defined in
> > the standard, see http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-
> > v1.2-os-part3.html#__RefHeading__752789_826425813
> Agreed.
> It *is* possible to achieve better compression than ZIP (we knew how to do
> that for quite some time ;) ), but to do so we would need a new iteration
> of the OpenDocument standard. While it's not totally out of question, I
> have the feeling that increasing fragmentation just to save space on office
> files is not a good trade-off. Remember that ODT files are used by many
> pieces of software, not only LibreOffice.
> OpenOffice of course, but some part of google export, some less-known
> office suite, various custom software that output their reports as odt
> files... even mso got to implement it. I doubt a new version of the
> standard would be a good thing while it is still functionnal.
>
>
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