>>>>> "SD" == Steven Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SD> Can someone tell me how a jpg is translated to the format below?
SD> The documentation I've found does not give much detail about this
SD> method of embedding images. If you paste this simple example into
SD> a new SVG file you will see the result is an image. What is the
SD> translation algorithm? Any help is much appreciated...
Everything after the 'base64,' is the JPEG file converted using a
base64 encoding (this converts binary data to a 'text' format that has
the nice property of not using any reserved chars for URLS etc).
The canonical description of the base64 encoding can be found at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt
The batik toolkit includes Streams that can do this for you:
org.apache.batik.util.Base64EncoderStream (output stream)
org.apache.batik.util.Base64DecoderStream (input stream)
Hope this helps...
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