Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer file increase in size

2025-04-18 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 18/04/25 3:01 am, Philip Jackson wrote: On 17/04/2025 16:18, Philip Jackson wrote: I just reworked an old document written in Writer five years' ago. My intention was to replace all the images with new ones. There are 69 png images in the doc and all are black and white line drawings sa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer file increase in size

2025-04-18 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi Philip. What happens if you "Save As" to create a new document. Is that also 8.1MB. For some reason this is sounding familiar from some years ago. Steve On 18/04/25 2:18 am, Philip Jackson wrote: I just reworked an old document written in Writer five years' ago. My intention was to replac

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer file increase in size

2025-04-18 Thread Philip Jackson
Hi Gabriele :  I'm sorry to have mislead you. My last email about 'save as' was in response to a suggestion by Steve that the mere act of 'saving as' could have an effect of file size - if I understood him correctly.  I don't know what he had in mind but it caused me to make a few tests. The v

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer file increase in size

2025-04-18 Thread Gabriele Bertolucci
Original file.doc - 0.3 MB with all linked images, as you wrote in another post in this thread. Ok > If I open the doc and then save as doc-a.odt, the size jumps up by 0.3 MiB to > 8.4. So now you've get doc-a.odt - 8.4 MB. Probably size increases because all linked images now are included and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer file increase in size

2025-04-17 Thread Philip Jackson
Interesting point, Steve. If I open the doc and then save as doc-a.odt, the size jumps up by 0.3 MiB to 8.4. If I then keep doc-a.odt still open and save as doc-b.odt, the size doesn't move and remains at the original 8.1. But if I then close doc-b.odt, re-open it and save as doc-c.odt, the si

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer file increase in size

2025-04-17 Thread Philip Jackson
On 17/04/2025 16:18, Philip Jackson wrote: I just reworked an old document written in Writer five years' ago. My intention was to replace all the images with new ones. There are 69 png images in the doc and all are black and white line drawings saved, at the time, in RGBA format with transpare

[libreoffice-users] Writer file increase in size

2025-04-17 Thread Philip Jackson
I just reworked an old document written in Writer five years' ago. My intention was to replace all the images with new ones. There are 69 png images in the doc and all are black and white line drawings saved, at the time, in RGBA format with transparency. The replacement images are pngs saved