>>There are links to many tools at the bottom of this document
>>http://www.undocprint.org/formats/winspool/spl
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>Yes, that is the page I first looked at. I also tried the first one there and it says "Invalid SPL file". From the XML, this is base64. However, in order to obtain the spl file on disk, I need to save it. I decode the base64 using the default encoding such as:
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>cString = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(Convert.FromBase64String(cEncoded))
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>...to obtain the string. And, then, to save the string to a file:
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>                ' Try to open the file
>                Using loFileStream As System.IO.FileStream = New FileStream(lcFile, FileMode.Create)
>                    loStreamWriter = New StreamWriter(loFileStream, cEncoding)
>                    loStreamWriter.Write(cString)
>                    loStreamWriter.Close()
>                    llSuccess = True
>                    Exit For
>                End Using
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>But, no matter what I try, this is always an invalid file. I have tried saving the string as Default, UTF8, UTF7, UTF32, Unicode, ASCII and BigEndianUnicode.
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>>Here it says Adobe Flash 15 can open an SPL file.
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>>http://fileinfo.com/extension/spl
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>Thanks
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>>But I believe than an SPL file only contains par of the information for the image.
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>Could you explain more on this?

For each print job there are two spool files generated by the Windows® NT/2000 spooler. One file with the .SHD extension for job settings, and one with the .SPL extension for the drawing commands.