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kovidgoyal · 05-03-2008, 08:49 PM

The reason RTF tends to be bigger is because it encodes everything including picture data in ASCII, which is very inefficient. In contrast most e-book formats, LRF included typically use some form of compression on their data internally.

05-03-2008, 08:49 PM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The reason RTF tends to be bigger is because it encodes everything including picture data in ASCII, which is very inefficient. In contrast most e-book formats, LRF included typically use some form of compression on their data internally.