file-format

Anyone knows how to load a .AI file (Adobe Illustrator) and then rasterize/render the vectors into a Bitmap so I could generate eg. a JPG or PNG from it? I would like to produce thumbnails + render the big version with transparent background in PNG if possible. Ofcause its "possible" if you know the specs of the .AI, but has anyone any knowledge or code to share for a start? or perhaps just a link to some components? C# .NET please :o) Code is most interesting as I know nothing about reading vector points and drawing splines. Well, if Gregory is right that ai files are pdf-compatible, and you

Is there an unofficial spec anywhere that explains how to reverse engineer a Flash .FLA file? I'm specifically interested in creating an application that can "auto-scene plan" a Flash document programmatically, pulling in content from other files, arranging that content into layers, without needing the Flash IDE open. Animators would then be able to take these pre-assembled FLA's and begin animating them. I've already built a JSFL script that does this, but it runs very slowly, is difficult to debug or re-purpose. scope_creep I've spent days looking around the internet, to see if there is

Microsoft CHM format is great as provide such facilities: Table of contends with tree view. Index. Indexed search. Based on HTML source. But this format is outdated and have many drawbacks: Have security issues (allow execute JavaScript code). Don't know about new HTML formats. Not documented. Can not properly handle different character codings (like UTF-8). Are there any alternatives for CHM which have reader and compiler for all desctop OSes? PS . I hear that QT come this something like, KDE, NetBeans also use own help format. How about non-vendor specific? PPS . Some related: http://live

I have a few questions: Why was a.out replaced by ELF ? What were the major flaws in the a.out format that led to the raise of ELF file format? Earlier core dumps were based on a.out, but now they are based on ELF. What are the various advantages provided by ELF? The a.out format forced shared libraries to occupy a fixed place in memory. If you wanted to distribute an a.out shared library, you had to register its address space. This was good for performance but it didn't scale at all. See for yourself how tricky it was (linuxjournal). By contrast, in ELF, shared libraries can be loaded

Wikipedia has an excellent description of the ZIP file format , but the "central directory" structure is confusing to me. Specifically this: This ordering allows a ZIP file to be created in one pass, but it is usually decompressed by first reading the central directory at the end. The problem is that even the trailing header for the central directory is variable length. How then, can someone get the start of the central directory to parse? (Oh, and I did spend some time looking at APPNOTE.TXT in vain before coming here and asking :P) My condolences, reading the wikipedia description gives me

I have a file that contains the following lines of code. here the file displays a schedules which are sorted one by one . at 12:00 the schedule of james version1 is : first_task:eating:nothing second_task:rest:onehour third_task:watching:nothing at 12:00 the schedule of james version2 is : first_task:eating:fruits second_task:rest:twohour third_task:watching:manga at 12:00 the schedule of alex version1 is : first_task:eating:fruit second_task:rest:halfhour third_task:watching:horrorfilm at 12:00 the schedule of alex version2 is : first_task:eating:meal second_task:rest:nothing third_task