> I've written a module that implements the base 85 encoding used by the old > btoa program, and by PDFs as their Ascii85 encoding* > > I'm not sure what to call it. It's functionally equivalent interface to > MIME::Base64, but this isn't a MIME standard, so that's not the correct > top > level to live under. It is, arguably, an encoding module, but it isn't the > interface of Encode, which is what modules under the Encode top level > provide. > > So I'm not sure what to call it. > > Nicholas Clark > > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85
I don't have a good name recommendation, but I do know there is a PDF-specific implementation within this CPAN module: http://search.cpan.org/src/MHOSKEN/Text-PDF-0.29a/lib/Text/PDF/Filter.pm I use that filter within my own CAM::PDF module. Chris
