[PLUG] Strange file characteristics

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Robert Kopp wrote:

> Today I was preparing an MS Word document for publication using
> Crossover Office under Linux. In mid-afternoon the file weighed in
> at a little under 2MB, then I added a 100K picture and the file was
> about 10MB!

I suspect that the graphic you added was stored in JPEG, GIF, or some
other suitably compressed file format -- and I further suspect that
Word uncompresses embedded graphics and stores them as raw bitmaps.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>