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StasB
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March 21, 2014
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AI files format specification

  • March 21, 2014
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Hello!

I am looking for modern AI file format specification. In some old topics I saw that all specifications later than this one http://http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/illustrator/sdk/AI7FileFormat.pdf are proprietary. Are they still being in secret? If so, are there any tools from Adobe that can be used in my application to parse AI files?

Thanks in advise,

Stas.

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A. Patterson
A. Patterson
Inspiring
March 21, 2014

I haven't seen any. We'd absolutely find a use for such a tool or document so I'm fairly certain that there's no way outside of Adobe to get your hands on one unfortunately.

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StasBAuthor
New Participant
March 21, 2014

For example Rhino CAD can open AI files of any version. Thats why I posted this topic. Any ideas how they can do it?

A. Patterson
A. Patterson
Inspiring
March 21, 2014

None I'm afraid I know there's a library out there for reading PDF files (super expensive to license!) because we were considering that at one point. I seem to recall that we were directed to it when we asked Adobe about it, so maybe they have some help from Adobe, or at least their blessing. Maybe there's someone out there doing an AI library as well (if not the same people).

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