Re: [WiX-users] msi package compression

[Koloszar J. <jo...@er...>]

that was it, thanks!!!
i extracted .ico to use as bianries, and it did the trick, size down to 
2.7MB
cheers,
joe 

 

> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:59:39 -0700
> From: Bob Arnson <bo...@jo...>
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] msi package compression
> To: dj...@tr...
> Cc: WiX-users <wix...@li...>
> Message-ID: <47F...@jo...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed 
> 
> DE?K JAHN, G?bor wrote:
>> I don't know what's inside your MSI (you can use the MSI packer plugin in Total Commander to look into it just like into any other packed file) but, just a thought: if you refer to a large executable just because it contains the icon you want to use, the whole executable will appear in the MSI. And if you deploy the same executable with your product, the file will be included twice, once for the icon, once for the deployment.
>>   
> 
> The same is true of any "blob" type, both Icon and Binary. OLE storage 
> doesn't compress them. If you have big bitmaps, try reducing the color 
> depth. 
> 
> -- 
> sig://boB
> http://joyofsetup.com/