2009/3/20 formes01 <formes01@mail.ru>:
>> > Bz2abw plugin was a unique feature of Abiword, but it's removed now from official 'Import/Export Plugins' package for Windows.
>>
>> In all honesty, it was pretty useless, and a mistake for me to ever
>> write it. You may have been the only person on the planet using it.
>
> ODF, Office Open XML use ZIP compression. AbiWord uses no compression now. Bz2abw allowed much better compression comparing to ZIP and providing comfort to a user. Am I missing something?
Disks are big and cheap. And there's still the gzip'd version of the
AbiWord format, which offers good compression. I didn't say that all
compressed file formats were a mistake. Just the BZipped version of
the AbiWord format. AbiWord will continue to read the BZipped versions
of the files, provided that libgsf was compiled with bzip support.
Providing comfort is something that your mother does, not a
compression algorithm.
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