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'''OCAD''' (Orienteering Computer Aided Design) is a software system for cartography (map making) with particular functionality for use connected to the sport of orienteering, which involves direction-finding. The software was created in Switzerland and released in 17 languages. It is sold on a subscription basis.

== Identification ==

Files start with the bytes <code>AD 0C</code> (hex), which represent a 16-bit integer <code>0CAD</code> (hex) in [[Endianness|little-endian]] form, spelling out the name of the software. (It's equivalent to the less interesting 3245 in decimal.) The specs don't specifically mention the endianness, so it's possible that implementations on system architectures with big-endian system-level order might start files with <code>0C AD</code> and produce files not necessarily compatible with other systems, though it does not appear that such implementations actually exist.

The following byte is 0 for a normal map, 1 for a course setting project, 2 for a file saved in Server.

== Format description ==
* [https://www.ocad.com/wiki/ocad/en/index.php?title=OCAD_12_File_Format OCAD 12 File Format]
* [https://www.ocad.com/wiki/ocad11/en/index.php?title=OCAD_11_File_Format OCAD 11 File Format]
* [https://www.ocad.ch/docs/OCAD10Format.txt OCAD 10 File Format]
* [https://www.ocad.ch/docs/OCAD9Format.txt OCAD 9 File Format]
* [https://www.ocad.ch/docs/format8.txt OCAD 6/7/8 File Format]

== Software ==
* [https://ocad.com/dwn/OCAD2018Viewer.php Free OCAD Viewer]

== Links ==
* [https://www.ocad.com/ Official site]
* [https://www.ocad.com/wiki/ocad/en/index.php?title=Technical_Data OCAD Technical Data]

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 == Identification ==
-Files start with the bytes <code>AD 0C</code> (hex), which represent a 16-bit integer <code>0CAD</code> (hex) in [[Endianness|little-endian]] form, spelling out the name of the software. (It's equivalent to the less interesting 3245 in decimal.) The specs don't specifically mention the endianness, so it's possible that implementations on system architectures with big-endian system-level order might start files with <code>0C AD</code> and produce files not necessarily compatible with other systems, though it does not appear that such implementations actually exist.
+Files start with the bytes <code>AD 0C</code> (hex), which represent a 16-bit integer <code>0CAD</code> (hex) in [[Endianness|little-endian]] form, spelling out the name of the software. (It's equivalent to the less interesting 3245 in decimal.) The specs don't specifically mention the endianness, so it's possible that implementations on system architectures with big-endian system-level order might start files with <code>0C AD</code> and produce files not necessarily compatible with other systems, though it does not appear that such implementations actually exist. If they did, then one could use the presence of <code>AD 0C</code> or <code>0C AD</code> at the beginning of a file as a [[Byte Order Mark]] equivalent to distinguish them.
 The following byte is 0 for a normal map, 1 for a course setting project, 2 for a file saved in Server.

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 * [https://www.ocad.ch/docs/OCAD9Format.txt OCAD 9 File Format]
 * [https://www.ocad.ch/docs/format8.txt OCAD 6/7/8 File Format]
 == Software ==