21.11.2011, 18:32, "Atlant Schmidt" <aschm...@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. -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
