Show package contents does reveal one clue. If I sort by size the top item is a 200KB preview.jpg which I assume is for the document icon. There is also preview-web.jpg which is 13K and preview-micro.jpg which is 2K. The rest of my 295K test document was made up of index.zip which had about 60 little .iwa files (whatever those are) and a folder called Metadata with less than 1K of stuff such as a plist file and a file called Documentidentifier. So it sounds like the initial hit is taken from the big jpg files. Exporting this to a PDF made it about 120K.

CB

On 8/1/14, 11:40 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,

Sort of like an app on the Mac.  There are data sets, embedded objects etc all 
packaged into one item for you.  So, if you go to the Pages document, press 
VO-shift-m on it and choose Show Package Contents, you can see what is included 
in the document.  I'm not a developer or anything but I'm guessing that 
packaging things this way better allows for accessing the documents across Mac 
and iOS platforms and will make things easier in Yosemite and iOS 8 for opening 
file formats without extra conversions.

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:55 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi Tim, what do you mean by "a package thing?"


On 1 Aug 2014, at 07:12, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:

Hi,

Hmmm, that's interesting.  Not sure but I don't believe that it really matters 
either.  The sizes you're speaking of are minuscule.  When you talk of files 
being in the KB range, there's nothing at all to be concerned about.  I tested 
like you and had a .DOCX file that I changed into a .Pages file which changed 
it from 127 KB to 219 KB.  Pages does tend to kind of do a package thing for 
it's files and this may be what causes the difference.

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi all, was wondering why when one creates a pages document, why they are so 
much larger in file size compared to other doc formats.

To put this into perspective for you, I have created a word document with text edit 
called "new books requests.docx" This 1st document, file size was only 4KB
However, when I created it in a pages format just to compare, the size jumped 
up to 129KB

Quite a difference Don't you think? Anyway, was just curious why this is so and 
is there any possible ways of getting file sizes with the pages format smaller?

Its not a big deal but it seems pretty extreme for just a document format if 
you know what I mean. The most I have ever seen with a word document at least, 
with in my experience ranges from: 20KB to 30KB possibly 40KB. But certainly 
not within the realms of the 3 digit numbers! lol

Thanks all for any feedback with this and remember, its not a big deal but more 
out of curiosity.

Daniel

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