Created attachment 63167 [details] compressed large .xls file saved initially by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 I found this problem trying to work with time sheets originally created and edited with Excel 2003. The file originally having size of about 100 KB after saving in LibreOffice as .xls increases in size to 7.6 MB. After saving the same file as .xls with OpenOffice.org 3.4 file size goes down to some 80 KB. The same happens if previously created large .xls file is saved as .ods with Libreoffice 3.5.5.1. If I reopen .xls file saved in Openoffice.org with Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 and save it again as .xls, file size is not increasing, however saving is very slow. Sample files follows in attachment: Large xls file size.xls.zip - compressed large .xls file saved initially by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 Large xls file size.ods - the same file saved by by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 as .ods Large xls file size ooo.xls - large xls file saved as xls by Openoffice.org 3.4 Large xls file size ooo + lo.xls - the same file saved by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 after saving in Openoffice.org
Created attachment 63168 [details] The same file saved by Openoffice.org 3.4 after Libreoffice 3.5.5.1
Created attachment 63169 [details] The same file saved by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 after saving with Openoffice.org 3.4
Created attachment 63170 [details] Initial large .xls file saved by Libreoffice 3.5.5.1 as ods
Should be fixed in 3.5.5.2 and 3.6.0.1
The bug is fixed now in 3.5.5.2.
Problem still exist in version 3.5.5.3, xls files with a size of 40KB stores increased to 1.3MB.
Yes, I found the same that some xls files considerably increase in size after saving with 3.5.5.3, however, not the same published here before, but also some kind of EC time sheets and relevant documents
I think new Version is wrong <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details#Version> @Markus: I am pretty sure that Bug 52141 is a DUP what confirms that the problem still exists in 3.5.5.3
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 51878 ***
So no this was not a duplicate but another problem with our xls export filter. This time not introduced by me! Same problem exists for xlsx export and is already tracked by another bug report.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-3-6-0&id=de9c6a7829b08968491c8b57b5bd4f182e5e873e
I am getting huge XLS files when saving spreadsheets as XLS with spreadsheets that previously were similar size or slightly smaller in XLS form than in ODS form. Now the XLS file is well over 50 times bigger than the ODS file!!! This is with V 3.5.5.3 on WINDOWS.