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

[Gregoire Dupond]

hmmm,
as you said only xml seems to be compressed.
And if I plan to have 42 audio notes on an outline, the disk space is 42X25368
bytes so it is over a meg for nothing. How many am I supposed to accept on my
HD for an xml weighing few kilos.
True I could write an apllescript to delete all these in the package... but I
would instinctively follow your advice not to do so...


--- Curtis Clifton <curt.clifton at mac.com> wrote:

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


		
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