Adobe Illustrator Artwork

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Extensions	`.ai`
MIME types	`application/illustratorapplication/pdfapplication/postscriptapplication/vnd.adobe.illustrator`
Signatures	`252150532d` at byte 0 `25504446` at byte 0
PRONOM	`fmt/565x-fmt/20fmt/417fmt/418fmt/419fmt/420fmt/421fmt/422fmt/423fmt/557fmt/558fmt/559fmt/560fmt/561fmt/562fmt/563fmt/564fmt/1862fmt/1863fmt/1864`
Wikidata	`Q2584726`

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ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
Q141647662Open sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Wings 3DOpen sourcereads and writes · BSD licenses
ExifToolOpen sourcereads · Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later
PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
Q8295Open sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
sK1Open sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
Adobe Illustratorreads and writes · proprietary license
Adobe Illustrator 9.0reads and writes
Autodesk 3DS Max 8reads and writes
Autodesk 3DS Max 9reads and writes
Cobaltreads and writes
Corel Flow 2.0reads and writes
Corel Painter version 12writes
Corel Painter X3writes
Freehand MXreads and writes
Lotus Freelance Graphicsreads and writes
Moment of Inspirationwrites
PaintShop Photo Pro X3reads and writes
PaintShop Pro X4reads and writes
Q108202177writes · proprietary license / shareware
Rhinoceros 3Dreads and writes · proprietary license
SOLIDWORKSreads and writes · proprietary license
The Print Shop Deluxe 2writes
Visio Standard 5.0reads and writes
VisualARQreads and writes
Acorn Image Editorreads
Adobe After Effectsreads · proprietary license
Adobe Fireworks CS6reads
Adobe FreeHandreads
Adobe PhotoDeluxereads
Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0reads
Adobe Premiere 5.1reads
Adobe Premiere 6.0reads
Adobe Premiere Proreads · proprietary license
Affinity Photoreads
Cinema 4Dreads · proprietary license
CorelDRAWreads · proprietary license
CorelDRAW Graphics Suitereads
DrawPlusreads

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Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.ai out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.ai out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.ai out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.ai out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.ai out.webp` Lossy compression.

Versions and variants (20)

Adobe Illustrator 1.0 / 1.1Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 3.0 / 3.2Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 4.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 5.0 / 5.5Writable
Adobe Illustrator 6.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 7.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 8.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 9.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 10.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 11.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 12.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 13.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 14.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 15.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 16.0Unknown
Adobe Illustrator CC Artwork 17-23Unknown
Adobe Illustrator CC 2020 Artwork 24-24.1Unknown
Adobe Illustrator CC 2020 Artwork 24.2+Unknown
Adobe Illustrator 88Unknown
Adobe Illustrator JapanUnknown

Sources

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