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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I tried the "Save As Daisy" plug-in for Word. Saving the book took hours... I don't know how many, I went to bed after it had been chewing on it for over an hour.
When I checked on it in the morning, I saw about 110 individual files, including 53 mp3 files and 53 smil files, and a grand total of 137MB... I wasn't expecting that!
I'd hope DAISY is more reasonably packaged than that, or how could people use it, move it on the web in limited-bandwidth pipes, etc?
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Something is extremely messed up. Files generated by Word will always be a little bit bloated, but not that much. DAISY files should not be 10 times larger than their plain text origins. For example, "The Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain is about 400 kilobytes as a plain text file. The DAISY version is just under 1 megabyte. I can't figure out where those .mp3 files came from, either. DAISY books that contain recorded speech can have audio files, but I have no clue why Word would generate them for a text-only DAISY book. I'll ask around and see if there's any settings you need to tweak to get Word to produce DAISY files without a lot of extra junk.