Word docs become huge RTF files in RoboHelp 8.02

[Guest]

Every Word document that I add to the RoboHelp 8 project becomes huge in file size.  For example, a 100k Word 2007 document that consists of a couple of pages of text with a couple of small JPEG images (around 50k each) becomes a 15-30 meg RTF file in RoboHelp after importing.  The same happens if I created the page/document from within RoboHelp.  Is there a setting to keep the RTF files from swelling to such large gigantic sizes?

[RoboColum_n_]

I think this is a characteristic of RTF files generally and has little if anything to do with RoboHelp. Is the large file size an issue for you?

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[Guest]

I found out what the problem was.  For some reason, the RTF files swell up when the a jpeg image is added and embedded into the Word document.  I created a test document and converted some of the jpeg images to bitmap (BMP) files and used the Image import tool that comes with RoboHelp.  The RTF documents stayed tiny even when the same images were added but now as BMPs.   The difference is that the RoboHelp image tool creates a link to the bitmap image as opposed to embedding it in the document which is what happened with the jpegs.  I read about this in another post that alluded to this in one of the RoboHelp forums.

Thanks!