Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer file increase in size

Hi Philip.
What happens if you "Save As" to create a new document. Is that also 
8.1MB. For some reason this is sounding familiar from some years ago.

Steve


On 18/04/25 2:18 am, Philip Jackson wrote:
> I just reworked an old document written in Writer five years' ago. My 
> intention was to replace all the images with new ones.
>
> There are 69 png images in the doc and all are black and white line 
> drawings saved, at the time, in RGBA format with transparency. The 
> replacement images are pngs saved in grayscale without transparency. 
> Without exception, each replacement image is smaller than the 
> original. The original images totalled 5.49 MiB and the replacements 
> 3.89 Mib.
>
> My replacement procedure was to delete an image and then insert its 
> replacement, check its anchor, wrap alignment and size to be identical 
> to the original, and then pass on to the next image ... etc.
>
> The old document was 4.7 MiB with its original images and I expected 
> the new document to be smaller. Instead, it is now 8.1 MiB. It has 
> gained 3.4 MiB which is close to the overall size of the new images.
>
> Does this mean that the odt document retains all the old history 
> including the original images?  I'd like to get back to something 
> smaller than the original 4.7 MiB so would welcome ideas for pruning 
> it back without rewriting from scratch.
>
> Philip
>
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