Adobe Illustrator Artwork

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File Format
Name Adobe Illustrator Artwork
Ontology
Extension(s) .ai
PRONOM fmt/565, others
Released 1987

Adobe Illustrator Artwork (AI) is a proprietary vector graphics format used by the Adobe Illustrator program.

The original format of these files was known as "PGF", but it was later embedded in a PDF wrapper for compatibility with that format, but includes AIPrivateData tags. The format is also related to Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), and some versions of the file format are made to be compatible with that. Some forms of the file have multiple versions of the data embedded in it for multi-format compatibility.

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Identifiers

Version 1-8 (EPSF)
Version 11(CS) - 16(CS6)
Version 17(CC)
Version 24 (2020)

Version AI5 Ext. Year PDF Version PRONOM
1.0 / 1.1 .ai 1987 x-fmt/20
88 .ai 1988 fmt/417
3.0 / 3.2 .ai 1990 fmt/418
4.0 .ai 1992 fmt/419
5.0 / 5.5 1.1, 1.2, 2.5 .ai 1993 fmt/420
Japan .ai fmt/421
6.0 2.0, 2.1 .ai 1996 fmt/422
7.0 3 .ai 1997 fmt/423
8.0 4 .ai 1998 fmt/557
9.0 5 .ai, .pdf 2000 1.4 fmt/558
10.0 6 .ai, .pdf 2001 1.4 fmt/559
11.0 7 .ai, .pdf 2003 1.4 fmt/560
12.0 8 .ai, .pdf 2005 1.4 fmt/561
13.0 9 .ai, .pdf 2007 1.5 fmt/562
14.0 10 .ai, .pdf 2008 1.5 fmt/563
15.0 11 .ai, .pdf 2010 1.5 fmt/564
16.0 12 .ai, .pdf 2012 1.5 fmt/565
17.0 13 .ai, .pdf 2013 1.5 fmt/1862
18.0 13 .ai, .pdf 2014 1.5 fmt/1862
19.0 13 .ai, .pdf 2015 1.5 fmt/1862
20.0 13 .ai, .pdf 2016 1.5 fmt/1862
21.0 13 .ai, .pdf 2016 1.5 fmt/1862
22.0 13 .ai, .pdf 2017 1.5 fmt/1862
23.0 13 .ai, .pdf 2018 1.5 fmt/1862
24.0 14 .ai, .pdf 2019 1.5 fmt/1863
24.2 14 .ai, .pdf 2020 1.6 fmt/1864
25.0 14 .ai, .pdf 2020 1.6 fmt/1864
26.0 14 .ai, .pdf 2021 1.6 fmt/1864
27.0 14 .ai, .pdf 2022 1.6 fmt/1864

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