Re: Overlay Error

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, my bad for misunderstanding. I was tired yesterday and wasn't
thinking straight.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:26:45 -0500 (CDT), Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > It is actually a jar file with a bunch of XML documents in it. So it
> > is a compressed file... well... if you compress text, it gets to be
> > quite small.
> 
> You appear to be referring to the format of an Open Office .SXW document.
> However, I'm not sure that this is what James meant?
> 
> I thought he meant that if he createn an AFP document using File/Print and
> choosing "Save To File" that the resulting document would be smaller than
> if he had done the same thing with Word?
> 
> In other words, the OVERLAY is smaller, not the original document that it
> was created from.  Surely we can agree that an AFP document that's to be
> made into an overlay isn't a ZIP/JAR file.  I think OO just generates more
> efficient calls to the AFP drivers.
> 
> Likewise, if I take a Word document and open it in Open Office, then
> immediately save it as a .DOC file without any changes, the document will
> shrink from 68k to 40k.  I can still open that document in Word, it's
> still a .DOC file...  but it's smaller.   In that case, I think the
> difference might be that OO is discarding some/all of the "undo"
> information.
> 
> In any event, if Open Office does indeed generate more efficient AFP code,
> that means that the overlays should load into the printer faster, making
> it nicer to do the prints from the iSeries.
> 
> Can anyone confirm that?
> 
> 
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