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[Konstantin Tokarev]

21.11.2011, 18:32, "Atlant Schmidt" <aschmidt at dekaresearch.com>:
> Graham:
>
>   I’m not sure I understand your question so let me try an answer
>   and you can tell us whether that answer is germane to your
>   question ;-).
>
>   Essentially, there are two ways to store any non-textual
>   data in association with a basically-textual document:
>
>     o Internally – In this situation, you store the actual
>        non-textual data within the text document. This almost
>       always requires recoding it into a textual format that
>       will fit within your text document. Base64 encoding is
>       one very common method of doing this. The upside is
>       that everything you (or your users) need is in one file;
>       nothing gets lost or left behind if the file is transferred.
>       The downsides are that 1) the file can grow large; 2) the
>       file contains long runs of date that’s not-very-readable
>       by humans; and 3) the user will need your tool to extract
>       the embedded images (etc.).

4) It requires some CPU time to decode blobs.
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Regards,
Konstantin