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MICROSOFT WORD is EVIL

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:17 pm
by Ambush Commander
EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL!

I remind myself that whenever I find that RTF has really bad support for tables. Remember that. REMEMBER THAT!

TXT - 117 bytes
RTF - 1.93 KB (that's ten times larger! Wow! I looked inside, and all that space was taken up by global information, like page color and size and fonts and stuff. So I guess 1 kb is tolerable, after all, it's not being multiplied later)
SXW - 5.49 KB: This is Open Office's own format. It's pretty big, but I'm okay with that too, considering a BLANK word file is 11.5 KB. (Yeah, that's pretty awful if you think about it)
DOC - 8 KB (made with OpenOffice)
DOC - 23.5 KB

EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL!

So now I'm using RTF. With Wordpad. Yupz.

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:19 pm
by feyd
you may want to research into how much data of other things besides your text is stored in the file.

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:24 pm
by Ambush Commander
But Word is Proprietary and Binary. Not a good combination. Not even the OpenOffice developers have got it right yet. But nevertheless, I shall research ho! And I'm pretty sure I'm not trying to boost my post count. Err... sorry if I was reviving old threads.