The word doc stores one copy of the image to display in each cell where the oo document stores multiple copies of the image? just my guess... are there 10 cells? kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel MacDonald" <smac at visi.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:29 PM Subject: [TCLUG] (OT) This is just to weird. > I created a document using Word 97 (I'm not buying another M$ license) > The document is a table with business card size cells (for business cards) > > It has a graphic in each of the cells > It has 2 bullet points > It has 2 different fonts, some bold. > No color. > > Standard information for a business card. > > As a word doc it's 671k, for one page, it has a graphic on each card. > > I opened it in OO Writer and saved it as an OO Writer "sxw" file, it's > 6,724k ! > OUCH that's a bit large for one page, over 6.5 megabytes! > > Anyone know why this happened or is this normal behavior form Open > Office. Opening this document from a LAN drive is very painful. It > prints great but the size is larger then expected. > > Sam. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list