Re: base64 Encode a tiff image.

[Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>]

would something like this work for you?

http://www.systeminetwork.com/article/application-development/sha1-md5-and-base64-without-apis-63029

SHA1, MD5, and Base64 Without APIs
Date Posted: January 15, 2009 12:00 AM
Author: Scott Klement

I tried this and it worked...
openssl base64 -in /path/to/file.in -out /path/to/encoded/file.base64

Bryan


Jorge Merino said the following on 4/11/2012 1:49 PM:
> Hi,
>
> I want to encode a TIF image stored on the IFS and to embed it into an XML document that will be downloaded on a web browser.
>
> I know that by open() the IFS file, then QDCXLATE(), and base64_encode() -of course using Scott's tools- do the magic, but has to be by reading in a loop the buffer returned by open().
>
> However, I want to save some extra programming by avoiding the loop and convert the full streamed file in one single step  (I'm already using CGIDEV2-LoadStreamFile that returns the streamed file).
>
> I found that I can use 'iconv' API from QTQICONV service program to do this conversion, does somebody can share an example of parameters to be used for 'iconv'?.
>
> Thanks you all.
>
> -Jorge