Illustrator file format specifications
Where I can found the illustrator file format specifications?
Monika is right. There is no public documentation on the file format. It's proprietary and only AI itself can read and write it 100% correctly. Corel claim to have reverse-engineered the CS3 AI format, but I can't tell you how well it works, if at all. You can of course still find enough info on the legacy AI 88 format, which was the last time the format spec was publicly available, but it's a completely different thing from today's AI files....
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