02-04-2010, 04:33 AM | #1 |
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RTF tip - Instantly reduce filesize by 40%
RTF isn't the tiniest format around, but since it's so easy to work with, I prefer it over some others.
In reading through the forums, I've discovered that Word makes really awful RTF files. They are filled with extra junk that only takes up space. Unfortunately, it's a whole lot easier to make a nice looking RTF in Word than in WordPad. The solution is so easy - just compose your RTF in Word (or convert to RTF in Calibre and tidy up the results in Word). Then instead of saving, copy/paste to WordPad. All the formatting is copied over too. Save the document with WordPad, and you'll get a significantly smaller file. This also works for existing RTF files - open in Word, copy to WordPad, then save. My test was with an 80,000 word RTF created by Calibre from a LIT file. After cleaning it up, I first saved in Word, then copy/pasted to WordPad and saved there. The results: Word RTF: 856 KB WordPad RTF: 514 KB |
02-04-2010, 05:07 AM | #2 |
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I once had to find out how RTF worked... I made an empty RTF with Word. It was huge! Word puts all colours (or at least 256 of them) and all font definitions in your RTF file, even though you don't use them...
so, yes, I'd say, use wordpad and not word for rtf documents... |
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02-06-2010, 01:33 AM | #4 |
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thanks for the suggestion but i have a compulsive and admittedly irrational aversion to apps that refuse to obey to Windows UI standards. i know it's silly, and it may be a very good app, but i couldn't bring myself to download it
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02-06-2010, 09:52 AM | #5 |
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Though it's not free, I have to give major kudos to Atlantis Word Processor. It's a lightweight install, has tons of features, can work with .doc (Word), .rtf, and others...and output clean ePub...with embedded fonts, if you wish. The developer is very active on this forum, thus well supported.
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02-06-2010, 11:18 AM | #6 |
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RTF was intended to be a document interchange format, not a permanent storage format. The reason it's so big is that everything is in ASCII, all formatting is done with tags, etc. It was intended to be easy for any program to parse, for import and output.
It's perhaps not the best choice of formats to actually read in; if you convert it to any "binary" format, the size is likely to shrink drastically. |
02-06-2010, 11:54 AM | #7 |
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despite the theme of this thread, space isn't really an issue. after all, i can only read one book at a time! even on the PRS-300 you can throw a few hundred RTF files on there at once, which is quite a lot more than enough.
i know the RTF filetype gets a lot of badmouthing here, but i still like it. it's dead easy to format, and it seems to look good on the Reader. i don't bother with images or TOC or any fancy stuff since i just read fiction. it just works for me... |
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I have found that the only way I can read Word documents on my Jetbook Lite is to convert them to rtf and have thousands of files to do this for. Is there not an affordable batch conversion method to do this?
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