Word doc pages related to published pages on Lit

[NotWise]

I have a related question. When I am deciding whether to read a story now, or save it for later, I try and figure out the size. Why is there such a disparity in the size of the document and the number of pages?

I've never noticed that. Can you give an example?

 

[alohadave]

I have a related question. When I am deciding whether to read a story now, or save it for later, I try and figure out the size. Why is there such a disparity in the size of the document and the number of pages?

I see stories with a very large size doc that only come in a 5 pages, and other much smaller doc size that come in at 11-12 pages.

Is it Word versus rtf versus WordPerfect versus pdf, or what?

This also makes a difference in a couple of stories I am writing. I write in WordPerfect.

Font size, margins, line spacing, these will all affect the number of pages in your document.

If you have any graphics embedded in the document, that will increase the file size.

Really you should just use the word count and not worry about the number of pages in your document.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I have a related question. When I am deciding whether to read a story now, or save it for later, I try and figure out the size. Why is there such a disparity in the size of the document and the number of pages?

I see stories with a very large size doc that only come in a 5 pages, and other much smaller doc size that come in at 11-12 pages.

Is it Word versus rtf versus WordPerfect versus pdf, or what?

This also makes a difference in a couple of stories I am writing. I write in WordPerfect.

File format makes a massive difference. A .doc(x) version of the same text can be half the size of a .doc version, and .txt a different size again. Something internal to the format, I guess.

Although, when it's copy paste from a Lit page I'd have thought each Lit story would be in the same ballpark, per page.

 

[Handley_Page]

1400 words to an A4 page? 400 maybe, with a 12 font and narrow margins - I reckon you've added an accidental thousand, HP.

Drat; my bad, there.
We used to reckon on 500 words per A4 page, but there were a lot of 'depends' .