WD97: Poor Compression of Word Files That Contain Graphics

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you use file compression utilities to reduce the storage size of Word documents that contain a large percentage of graphics, the compression ratio may be lower than expected.

CAUSE

Microsoft Word is designed to compress the pictures or graphics inserted into documents automatically. Word natively stores JPEG images and converts all raster formats to Portable Network Graphics (PNG). PNG is a compressed format.

Applying additional compression to well-compressed images does not yield a significant reduction in the amount of storage space. Only non-JPEG/PNG data like text and other data can be reduced by a compression algorithm.

Additional query words: drw cgm pcx pcd cdr dxf emf wmf jpg png pict gif jpeg tif tiff eps wpg bmp dib rle tga pct

Keywords : kbdta word8 winword word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb