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File Size Of Master Document Increased After
DocumentID: 653512
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:23 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is experiencing a major increase in the file size of his master document after expanding and then condensing. He is using the 12/31/90 release of WordPerfect. He has a master document which is a letter template. It is 2,656 bytes before he expands it. He links it to a 12,577 byte subdocument. After expanding, the file size is 14,540. When he condenses the document, the master document is then 13,708 bytes in size. Also, why does WordPerfect take so much longer to condense documents than it does to expand them? Can you briefly explain how the program condenses files, and are there any steps that will help speed up this process? Solutions: The increased file size is being caused by the prefix of the master document adding information from the prefix of the subdocument. It needs to do this to harmonize the two documents as much as possible. In the above example, the increase appears quite drastic; however, with several 100K subdocuments the increase is not so noticeable.

When you expand a master document, the only function of WordPerfect that is invoked is the retrieve function. When retrieving, the prefix of each subdocument is harmonized with the master document's prefix. When you condense a master document, the reverse procedure happens; each subdocument is saved, and a prefix taken from the master document is attached. Very simple.

Saving changes that have been made to any part of the document and the type of machine (hardware) that is used will also contribute to the time it takes to condense a file. One sure way to speed up the process is to not save the subdocuments. All changes would of course be lost, but because most users use the expand-generate-condense process for generating and not for editing, this will not be a problem.

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