Ascii85

Ascii85, or Base85, is a binary-to-text encoding. It is similar in concept to Base64 and Uuencode. It is often used in PDF and PostScript files, and rarely anywhere else. There are several varieties of it.

Identification
Generic Ascii85 data often has a " " prefix, and a " " suffix, but this is not universal. Evidently, in PDF and PostScript, only the suffix is usually present.

Software

 * ascii85.tgz
 * btoa-5.2.tar.gz
 * Ascii85 libraries are readily available for most popular programming languages.

Links

 * Wikipedia article
 * Online ASCII85 encoder
 * Online ASCII85 decoder