Re: [dita] EPUB for DITA 1.2 Spec

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>]

On 8/11/10 5:25 PM, "Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com> wrote:

> I am a bit confused about your comment about ZIP compression. An epub
> file is itself a zip file, and the only uncompressed part is the
> mimetype file, so I'm not sure what you mean about epub not allowing zip
> compression.

Turns out I did not have full mastery of Ant's zip facilities. Rejiggered so
it does compression of everything but the mimetype file, I get about 10Meg,
which is about what I'd expect (a 7x reduction for mostly text content).

Much better.

Cheers,

Eliot

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