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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dude. The way it's stored currently is horrible - it's not congruent to 
the structure of the file! The s-expr file is supposed to be a tree 
structure, why is the binary data stored broken into multiple objects 
like that? It's yet another facet of the parsing nightmare we have.

If you're going to you a "standard" format like s-expr, you should 
actually understand it and use it the way it's meant to be used.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:46:31PM -0500, tiger12506 wrote:
> Not disagreeing with you on this one, but I would have to question why...
> 
> Why change this when what is already there means something more than what
> you're proposing...
> KiCad doesn't have to do internally what "every other browser, application,
> and tool" does, if it doesn't help anything.
> Not sure how storing base64 would help.
> 
> *backs away slowly*
> 
> On 12/17/2015 11:20 PM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> >I just saw this:
> >http://i.imgur.com/H8VxD3Z.png
> >
> >storing a bitmap as hex values.
> >
> >Next proposal item to add: storing binary data(bitmaps) as base64
> >quoted strings like every other browser, application and tool.
> >
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