What is AIP? AIP, short name for Adobe Illustrator Plug-in, is used as the file extension for Adobe Illustrator Plug-in files. .AIP files are binary files that can be opened by Adobe Illustrator software. See the sample .AIP file included below.

File Extension: .AIP

MIME Type: application/octet-stream

File Content: Adobe Illustrator Plug-in

.AIP files are Adobe Illustrator Plug-in files saved as binary files. Here are the first 128 bytes of a sample .AIP file, Geometry.aip, dumped in HEX values:

4d 5a 90 00 03 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 MZ..............
b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 00 ................
0e 1f ba 0e 00 b4 09 cd 21 b8 01 4c cd 21 54 68 ...........L..Th
69 73 20 70 72 6f 67 72 61 6d 20 63 61 6e 6e 6f is.program.canno
74 20 62 65 20 72 75 6e 20 69 6e 20 44 4f 53 20 t.be.run.in.DOS.
6d 6f 64 65 2e 0d 0d 0a 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 mode............

.AIP Adobe Illustrator Plug-in file sample: Click sample.aip to download.