From: Tobias Reif Date: 2002-05-26T17:50:59+09:00 Subject: Re: base64 Michael Neumann wrote: > [img_data].pack("m") should do it. Thanks. The below works, and uses code from RDoc's web/images/conv.rb : require 'generated/svg/svg_writer' name = ARGV.shift || raise("Missing name") image_data = File.open(name, "rb") {|f| f.read} base64_image = [image_data].pack("m*").split("\n") doc = Svg_doc.new root_el = doc.root root_el.attributes["xmlns:xlink"]="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" image = Image.new image.width=100 image.height=100 image.xlink_href='data:image/jpeg;base64,'+base64_image.to_s root_el.push image open('generated/svg/base64.svg','w') {|f|f.write doc} Tobi -- http://www.pinkjuice.com/