iWorks documents massively over-sized

[Benbikeman]

I have a 440k Word document on my Mac. When I open this in Pages and save it as a Pages document it becomes 1.7Mb. However, when I upload it to iWorks, it suddenly becomes 206Mb!

I know that it automatically generates three versions - Word, Pages and PDF - but even so should still only be 2-3Mb total. Yet it's 100 times bigger! The same happens with other documents.

Aside from the much-increased upload times, it also means that my iCloud storage isn't going to go very far.

Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[thunderbunny]

Not checked file sizes, but am definitely not seeing this to such an extent. Have got 11.6Mb of Pages docs which seems reasonable.

Does it store the document as all 3 formats?, I had assumed they are stored as one format and processed into other formats when downloaded.

 

[Benbikeman]

When you upload from the Mac, there are status messages showing it creating the other formats, so it does seem to embed them all within a single file. Not that this explains the massive size, of course.