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Originally Posted by HarryT
In particular it stores pictures with each pixel represented as ASCII text, which bloats the file enormously.
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That is true if the images in the RTF file are created in BMP format because BMP is a very inefficient image storage format. Maybe M$ Word does that as default ? However, RTF does have the capability to contain images in JPG format, and then the BASE64 encoding will only expand the JPG images by about 4/3 when stored as visible ASCII characters. RTF sometimes makes a nice intermediate format when doing conversions, as long as it's more limited formating capability is adequate for the project it is being used for.