[aclug-L] Re: MS vs OpenOffice docs

[Luke Wahlmeier <howdyboby2@xxxxxxxxx>]

I looked at this cause i was ver interested to see the
difrance in the formats.  I too a 507kb txt file( my
preferd format) and pasted it into word, and saved it
as a doc, and also into Openoffice and aved it as a
sxw file then i found a utility tho extract the
openoffice sxw file.  it is rather interesting how it
stores the file.  but anyway this was the resault
word .doc 1.04Mb
word .doc ziped 199kb
openoffice .swx 195kb
openoffice expanded 634kb
openoffice swx file zipped 194kb

i belive this showes the victor, well as far as file
size goes.  both the word and OOo werepasted the whole
document had the same size of text and the same number
of words.  even uncompressed openoffice only added
alittle over 100kb for formating, whlie word almost
doubled the size of it.  I am guessing there was a lot
of emplty space being taken up by word, or alot of
repedative chars, because it got a good compression
ratio when ziped  might try a 22mb xls file next

--- Jonathan Hall <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> You could test both files by zipping them and see
> which final result is
> smaller (they'll probably be nearly identical, I'd
> guess)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arnold Cavazos Jr." <abcjr@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:49 PM
> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: MS vs OpenOffice docs
> 
> 
> >
> > Not that I like MS or anything, but it must be
> stated that Open Office's
> > native XML format is zipped.  I wonder what the
> sxw turns out to be
> > when you unzip it.
> >
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> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:18:11PM -0600, Jeff
> Vian wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeff Vian wrote:
> > >
> > > >I recently had occasion to do both a
> spreadsheet and a simple text
> > > >document on the same subject.
> > > >
> > > >The document was simple 2 page text and the
> spreadsheet was about 6
> > > >columns by 15 rows.
> > > >The spreadsheet table was to be included in the
> document.
> > > >
> > > >I did these in OpenOffice and saved them in
> native format, then since I
> > > >needed to be able to access and print both at
> work (MScentric
> > > >environment) I also saved them in MS format.
> > > >-
> > > >This shows the relative sizes of the same
> documents saved as native to
> > > >Open Office format, then exported to MS format
> by Open Office.
> > > >
> > > >-----
> > > >
> > > >More that 3X the size for the .doc and almost
> 2X the size for the .xls
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sorry,  I forgot the image would be stripped by
> liststar.
> > >
> > > The file sizes are        37.0 K     .doc    (MS
> Office)
> > >                                     10.7 K    
> .sxw   (Open Office)
> > >                                       6.0 K    
> .sxc    (Open Office)
> > >                                       9.0 K    
> .xls     (MS Office)
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