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What is a .curve file extension?

Mar 28, 2012 12:19 PM

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I have a printshop that wants me to send them my artwork in a .curve What in the world is that?

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1. Namdesigner,

Mar 29, 2012 9:40 AM in reply to Joshbak

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This is the best I could come up with. Hope it helps at least a bit.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/PhotoshopF ileFormats.htm#50577411_pgfId-1056330
http://www.downloadatoz.com/file-extensions/curve-file-extension.html
http://www.computerfileextensions.com/file-extensions.php/CURVE

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2. Mylenium,

Mar 29, 2012 11:59 AM in reply to Joshbak

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I have a printshop that wants me to send them my artwork in a .curve What in the world is that?

Nobody knows and because of that its stands to reason that this is a proprietary format of their routing/ laser cutting software. Essentially it means nothing. Could be anything from a simple ASCII list format (formatted text file/ CSV) to a super-secret binary format. Anyway, if your printshop expects you to deliver your stuff in such an exotic format and can't deal with a simple AI file (AI 8 at least), then it's time to find another service partner. Seriously.

Mylenium

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3. Joshbak,

Mar 29, 2012 12:21 PM in reply to Mylenium

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Yes I did end up finding someone else but I'm still dumbfounded why they expected me to use such an obscure format. I knew I was in trouble when google didn't bring a conclusive answer. Thanks!

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4. this.is.my.name,

Jun 1, 2012 12:55 PM in reply to Joshbak

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While looking for explanations about the .curve format myself, google lead me here - hi.

While I'm uncertain about the standard format for a printshop, I just wanted to add that the .curve format is used by the data visualization tool 'VisIt' (https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/). I found a brief description of the format on pg.12 of https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.5.4/GettingDataIntoVisIt1.5.4.pdf.

Hope that helps,

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