Issue 67476 - File size when saved as .doc is too large
Summary: File size when saved as .doc is too large
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 67371
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: save-export (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.3
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2006-07-17 22:21 UTC by Joe Smith
Modified: 2006-07-18 08:08 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Joe Smith 2006-07-17 22:21:17 UTC 
Documents exported as .doc ("Word 97/2000/XP") are far larger in 2.0.3 than in
previous OOo versions (even 2.0.2). Since the file size is much larger than Word
itself creates, this causes severe problems for submitting documents that
require both .doc format and a "reasonable" file size limit. E.g, online job
applications may limit submitted documents to 100k, which is already exceeded by
a one-page cover letter created in OOo Writer.

Here are .odt and .doc file sizes for a document containing the standard "dummy
text" paragraph (1540 characters):

-----------------OOo 2.0.2 -------------------
$ ls -l dt*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jes jes 11776 Jul 17 17:13 dt.doc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jes jes  8874 Jul 17 17:13 dt.odt

-----------------OOo 2.0.3 -------------------
$ ls -l dt*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 joe joe 108032 Jul 17 17:12 dt.doc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 joe joe   8542 Jul 17 17:11 dt.odt

This is on a Fedora Linux 5 system but the original report came from a Windows
user, so it seems to affect at least those two platforms.
Comment 1 aziem 2006-07-18 07:18:13 UTC 
Thanks for the report.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 67371 ***
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2006-07-18 08:08:38 UTC 
Closing duplicate.