You know that you can make business cards inside OpenOffice.org. I bought blank cards on an 8.5x11 sheet at OfficeMax and printed on my Laser printer. Let me know (off list) if you want to know more about how that works. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Samuel MacDonald <smac at visi.com> Reply-To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:29:27 -0600 >I created a document using Word 97 (I'm not buying another M$ license) >The document is a table with business card size cells (for business cards) > >It has a graphic in each of the cells >It has 2 bullet points >It has 2 different fonts, some bold. >No color. > >Standard information for a business card. > >As a word doc it's 671k, for one page, it has a graphic on each card. > >I opened it in OO Writer and saved it as an OO Writer "sxw" file, it's >6,724k ! >OUCH that's a bit large for one page, over 6.5 megabytes! > >Anyone know why this happened or is this normal behavior form Open >Office. Opening this document from a LAN drive is very painful. It >prints great but the size is larger then expected. > >Sam. > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list