Status: This project is in maintenance mode. I will not develop new features, but I will address Issues and Pull Requests.
Ascii85 is a simple gem that provides methods for encoding/decoding Adobe’s binary-to-text encoding of the same name.
See www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf page 131 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85 for more information about the format.
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sudo gem install Ascii85
require 'rubygems' require 'ascii85' Ascii85.encode("Ruby") => "<~;KZGo~>" Ascii85.decode("<~;KZGo~>") => "Ruby"
In addition, Ascii85.encode can take a second parameter that specifies the length of the returned lines. The default is 80; use false
for unlimited.
Ascii85.decode expects the input to be enclosed in <~ and ~> — it ignores everything outside of these. The output of Ascii85.decode will have the ASCII-8BIT encoding, so in Ruby 1.9 you may have to use String#force_encoding
to correct the encoding.
This gem includes ascii85
, a command-line utility modeled after base64
from the GNU coreutils. It can be used to encode/decode Ascii85 directly from the command-line:
Usage: ascii85 [OPTIONS] [FILE] Encodes or decodes FILE or STDIN using Ascii85 and writes to STDOUT. -w, --wrap COLUMN Wrap lines at COLUMN. Default is 80, use 0 for no wrapping -d, --decode Decode the input -h, --help Display this help and exit --version Output version information
Ascii85 is distributed under the MIT License. See the accompanying LICENSE file for details.