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Old 03-20-2010, 08:52 AM   #18
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by Fledchen View Post
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.
The DAISY files themselves aren't that large... 20-40K on average. They total 1.33MB (about the size of a LIT file, and about the same size as the original DOC file) by themselves.

I can isolate the MP3 files from the rest... but is it still supposed to break the files into so many parts (the number is equal to the number of chapters, plus the number of individual entries of other books at the end of the book)?
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