[golfdude]

Why does stuffit compress your files and the size is the same or larger? shouldn't this be smaller?

Anyone had the same problem with this? I have stuffit deluxe for osx.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Ambassadeur]

What kind of files are you talking about? images? music? normally, these are already very much compressed, so no luck for stuffit there.

for normal data files (text etc.) stuffit should be able to do something. maybe self extraction is activated and the mechanism incorporated in the files takes up some space by itself?

[golfdude]

I'm trying to send pdf and ai files. I would think they atleast compress some of it. This got to be a joke if they can't compress these files even a little bit. it actually got bigger using stuffit delux instead dropzip or dropstuff.

any other programs out there that might do the trick?

Thanks

[kovacs]

Do you get the same results with apple's archive feature ?

[Developer]

If you use sitx format with optimum compression this is pretty much the best compression you can get (certainly better then the Finder's archive feature). You should be able to compress PDF or Postscript.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by golfdude:
I'm trying to send pdf and ai files. I would think they atleast compress some of it. This got to be a joke if they can't compress these files even a little bit. it actually got bigger using stuffit delux instead dropzip or dropstuff.

PDF files are already compressed and Ai files are supposed to be very small to begin with. You can't compress things that are already compressed and if you do it could make them larger as it has to include the compression data.

You will also have no luck compressing things like jpg's or Mp3's