On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 07:50:00AM +1000, Ross Moore wrote: > Besides, by using only 64 of the 256 possible byte codes, the base64 > version can be up to 4 times the size of the binary version.
256 (1 byte): 8 bit 64: 6 bit Thus one original byte needs 1 byte (6 bit) + 1/3 byte (2 bit) for encoding. Additional fill bytes at the end and line breaks may cost some more bytes. Yours sincerely Heiko Oberdiek -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
