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Signatures

External signatures File extension: ai
Internal signatures
Name Adobe Illustrator 1.x v1
Description The first line of the file declares with the Comment prefix %! that the file contains a PostScript program. It then specifies that the file conforms to version 2.0 of the Document Structuring Conventions and further that the file conforms to version 1.2 of the conventions for Encapsulated PostScript Files. The second line contains a %%Creator comment that identifies version 1.0 as the version of Adobe Illustrator that generated the PostScript document.
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 252150532D41646F62652D322E3020455053462D312E320D252543726561746F723A41646F626520496C6C7573747261746F7228544D2920312E30
Name Adobe Illustrator 1.x v2
Description The first line of the file declares with the Comment prefix %! that the file contains a PostScript program. It then specifies that the file conforms to version 2.0 of the Document Structuring Conventions. It may or may not specify EPSF 1.2. The Creator may or may not be Adobe Illustrator, but the DocumentProcsets declared in the header will be Adobe Illustrator 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 252150532D41646F62652D322E30{10-2096}2525446F63756D656E7450726F63536574733A(2041|41)646F62655F496C6C7573747261746F725F312E(30|31|32)
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