Size of quicktimes icons of audio recordings in documents packages!!!

[Curtis Clifton]

Gregoire,

On Jan 7, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Gregoire Dupond wrote:

> But what a shame : each recording creates a 28k quicktime icon in the 
> document
> package!!!
> My shorts recordings were between 12 and 24k so I more than double the 
> size of
> my file!
> Just one icon would be enough for all recordings I guess.
>
> Even though, just use the system icon for quicktime and then none is 
> needed in
> the oo document.

Hmm, I was going to suggest that you turn on compression of the OO3 
document until this multiple icon feature is sorted out.  
Unfortunately, it seems that the compression is only applied to the xml 
file which stores the outline; attachments and icons are not 
compressed.

* WARNING -- Dangerous Speculation Ahead -- I probably shouldn't post 
this. *
I did some experimenting and discovered that if I closed an outline in 
OO3, then showed the package contents in the finder, I could delete the 
.tiff icon files created for my attachments.  OO3 did not recreate the 
icons on opening, editing, and saving the outline and everything worked 
OK.  I discovered this in trying to manually create symlinks to 
associate all the tiff icons to a single file.  OO3 actually deleted 
the symlinks, but did not recreate the icons.

Please note that I would *not* recommend deleting the icons from the 
package.  Futzing with the internals of a package is fraught with 
peril.  This trick is just as likely to render an outline unusable as 
it is to save a few kB of disk space.  And which is more valuable, disk 
space or your ideas?  However, the fact that the trick seems to work 
really begs the question of whether the .tiff icons are necessary at 
all.

Best,

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton