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RWood · 01-03-2007, 04:07 PM

I have not paid too much attention to the file sizes generated by Word in RFT until today. I started with a 6.7 Megs Word file and saved it as an RTF. I was thinking maybe a 10% overhead, how bad could it be. The file turned out to be 524.3 Megs. Then I remembered reading that if you run and RTF through Wordpad it strips some of the "excess" Word formatting in RTF. That file was only 501.0 Megs.

I then tried to load the Word file directly in Wordpd to save it as RTF. That was started about 20minutes ago and is still loading. (This is not a slow machine so I'm a little confused at the time it is taking.)

01-03-2007, 04:07 PM	#1
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	RTF Files Sizes I have not paid too much attention to the file sizes generated by Word in RFT until today. I started with a 6.7 Megs Word file and saved it as an RTF. I was thinking maybe a 10% overhead, how bad could it be. The file turned out to be 524.3 Megs. Then I remembered reading that if you run and RTF through Wordpad it strips some of the "excess" Word formatting in RTF. That file was only 501.0 Megs. I then tried to load the Word file directly in Wordpd to save it as RTF. That was started about 20minutes ago and is still loading. (This is not a slow machine so I'm a little confused at the time it is taking.)