Can you include .3MF to the list of re-compressible formats? Its structure is similar to MS Office 2007 documents and Open Document Format. It is a ZIP Deflate archive with XML data and some JPG, and/or PNG pictures inside. Otherwise, if I try to compress .3MF it bearly makes it smaller unless I recompress .3MF to the Store setting then it makes it a lot smaller.
Wish they all would move to 7zip ZSTD in the first place so that the optimized file size with FileOptimizer would be 50% of the ZIP Deflate version. And there would be no extra compression needed :)
I noticed that the option to add the optimize archive function to the context menu is missing on Windows 10.
Opening each archive with the interface in order to click it becomes tedious with many files.
Same for others functions like Remove Archive Encryption
Suggestion to improve .pa format
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How about recognising a few more (or all) of the file formats that are basically renamed zip files and treating them is if they are zip files.
For instance Android .apk files are just renamed .zip files.
Libreoffice/Openoffice ODF documents are all, as far as I am aware, just renamed .zip files. (.odt, .ott, .ods, .ots, .odp, .otp, .odb, .odf etc.) -
nice suggestion @Brian-Gregory, especially the APK format. Gonna log these in, thanks!
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@Brian-Gregory did you try compress to .PA with Ultra settings? It should support all of these formats for recompression actually.
It is a bit slow, so it works under Ultra.
thanks!
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@spwolf said in Suggestion to improve .pa format:
@Brian-Gregory did you try compress to .PA with Ultra settings? It should support all of these formats for recompression actually.
It is a bit slow, so it works under Ultra.
thanks!
I thought I was using Ultra.
But APK doesn’t seem to be treated like a ZIP.
I am right clicking a folder and choosing Compress to folder.pa.
The compression profile for .pa is set for Ultra, Optimise strong.
I have ‘Use normal relative path’ disabled.Later: I think it’s just .APK that isn’t treated as a .ZIP file.
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Still the same in 20.00.57.
apk files still just compressed with rep1 plzma4.
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hey @Brian-Gregory
i see that the icon isn’t showing. when you right click the .apk, does it show extract options? -
@Mili Yes PA extracts APK files fine. It’s just when you put them inside a .PA file is misses out on the chance to compress them better like it can with ZIP files.
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thanks for the clarification @Brian-Gregory
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Not yet fixed in PA 20.00.58.
(APK files inside PA files still not compressed very effectively)
