Adobe Illustrator file format

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From: mday
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1989 00:39

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Does anyone have any information on the PostScript file format used by
Adobe Illustrator?  We would like to modify some of our in-house
programs such that the PostScript files they create can be read in 
by Illustrator.  This would then allow our users to easily edit and
further annotate their figures.

I have looked at some sample Illustrator files, but deducing the type
of PostScript that Illustrator will swallow from a few sample
files is not a trivial task.  Has somebody already done this?

In addition, I have checked the PostScript archive server at adobe.com, for
an Illustrator file specification, but it doesn't seem to contain such
a document.  Has anyone heard if such a document exists, or does
Adobe consider the Illustrator file format to be proprietary information?

Thanks for your help,
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		Mark Day
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