From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 17:12:53 PDT
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:37:54PM -0700, Rhonda Hyslop wrote:
> * Peter H. Coffin <hellsop_at_ninehells.com> [12 Apr 2004 13:05]:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:34:25PM -0400, MKow1234_at_aol.com wrote:
> > > Well, I attempted to run a test conversion the other day (final
> > > process for creating books in NewtonPress). Unfortunately, the
> > > application kept crashing. It appears there is a limit as to how
> > > large of a file the NewtonPress can "digest".
>
> Not sure if you've already done this, but you can increase the amount of
> memory an app is allowed to use (uh, at least on the mac, not sure about
> windows, and not sure which you're using).
On Windows, there's a Edit:Toolkit Preferences...:Heaps tab that might
do what the App memory allows.
> > > I was trying to turn a 5 meg NP! file into a NewtonBook pkg. I'm
> > > glad that I found out before I added all of the images to the book!
> >
> > Don't forget that there is an issue of the unicode text engine in the
> > newton. A 5-meg ascii file will become a 10-meg package (more or
> > less).
>
> But I also heard that the newt's compression will compress it back down
> to "about the size on your desktop"
Do compressed packages stay compressed or do they uncompress to run? And
does NTK compress packages or build uncompressed ones that the Newt
compresses?
> > I'm astonished that the input file is that big, though. Given the
> > amount of text that's on an average page, 1 meg would normally hold
> > hundreds of normal pages of text. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is 225k
> > in plain text, and 227k in HTML.
>
> I'm betting that's due to RTF... it can be much bigger than plain text,
> depending on how much formatting you give it.
Hmm... I tend see ~2x for formatted text versus unformatted.
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