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The EazyDraw native file format is an open non-proprietary public format. The data content is in a human/machine English readable text. We use Mac OS X's XML Parameter List (pList) dictionary based format.
Alternatively file data may be saved in a raw binary format which is more compact and quicker to open and save - important for larger files.
Seamless support for GZip compression is provided for both of EazyDraw's native file formats. This is valuable for sending EazyDraw files as email attachments. You can still simply double click a zipped file to open it in EazyDraw.
An XML style data file is much larger than a corresponding binary file. Both forms are provided by EazyDraw. It is somewhat counter intuitive, but the larger text based XML form should always be used for long term archival. If data is lost or corrupted, a binary file is probably lost completely with little hope of recovery. While a corrupted text based file can frequently be recovered with a little patience and a good text editor.
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