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Originally Posted by NatCh
You also might try opening the file in WordPad and saving it -- that seems to decrease my files' sizes by around 30% ... of course it also strips off all the Meta Data.  |
I was converting Gutenberg texts to RTF using a Word macro someone posted here (works great, btw - though I had to use my office PC for it... I'd tried an OpenOffice macro I could use on my home PC with more mixed results - why can't OO do a simple search/replace for the equivalent of ^p???). I'd routinely get output for, say, a 700kb text of over 1.7MB - crazy increase! That's more than double! Went for the "save using WordPad" and it would often be less than the original Gutenberg file (since it removed a tonne of line break characters). I'd have to put the metadata back in manually, but that wasn't much of a pain.