It's just the opposite -- years ago, it was much, much worse. I remember trying to reverse engineer older Symbian notes format -- it was a custom datastore for

It's just the opposite -- years ago, it was much, much worse. I remember trying to reverse engineer older Symbian notes format -- it was a custom datastore format containing various binary "chunks", each with semi-custom compression. I had to recombine multiple chunks just to get a formatted text, and I still had occasional failure. Or look at other vector format -- like CGM, first made in 1987. It has its own serialization mechanism, it's own model (file->body->figure->segment), and 3 compression types specifically designed for it. Look at http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c032380_ISO_IEC_8632-3_1999(E).zip http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c03... -- do you want this today? I'd that zip of plist of float anytime over that.