Robin Berjon wrote:
> You've probably lost information though (for some value of
> "information"). AFAIK the MS Office binary format has stuff in it that
> MS themselves have totally lost track of long ago.
Not a lot, actually. My experiments have found that when you compress
the same documents in Office binary and OpenOffice XML formats, the
end-result is that they're within a few percentage points of each other.
Not predictably one way or the other either. That suggests that they
have pretty close to the same information content.
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