> What it brings up is a desirability if not need in the future to > compress files (maybe with the new format?), since there is so much > repetition in them. And they're getting bigger: my directory of 33MB of > images resulted in a 1.2 version .sla file of 289K (without images), the > 1.3 version: 362K (this is loading the 1.2 version into Scribus then > saving from 1.3.2cvs, so it's an identical file, content-wise).
Err.. save as a compressed file.. sla.gz ?? You will need zlib support compiled in. The new format will allow for defaults to not be in the file, and when the new text system comes in that should reduce things too. I'm not of the "waste space/memory/cpu because its now available" thinking, however, when did a difference of 100k matter compared to a 33mb directory, on a N gigabyte drive ? Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051217/698e546b/attachment.pgp
