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Well suited? Zip? I’ve tested some hacks to get a file below email server file size limitations. Unzipping an excel file, then tarballing it into a .tar.xz arc
by pletnes 9y ago
Well suited? Zip?
I’ve tested some hacks to get a file below email server file size limitations. Unzipping an excel file, then tarballing it into a .tar.xz archive can cut the size by 30%, say. The only issue is that the receiver might not know what on earth to do with it!
- WorldMaker 9y ago"Well suited" doesn't necessarily mean "best suited". :)
- discreditable 9y agoAnother trick is you can repack modern MS Office files with advzip from advancecomp. With -z4 It will use Zopfli to pack them. Further gains can be had with more rounds, (such as -i50). The resulting files can be quite a bit smaller and Office will open them without complaint. Yet another trick is you can save as binary format files. In Excel this is XLSB. Supposedly those are less compatible across Office versions however.