= Ascii85

* http://ascii85.rubyforge.org

== DESCRIPTION:

Ascii85 is a simple gem that provides methods for encoding/decoding Adobe's
binary-to-text encoding of the same name.

See http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf page 131 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85 for more information about the format.


== SYNOPSIS:

  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.


== INSTALL:

* sudo gem install ascii85


== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Johannes Holzfuß

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