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LiveScribe AFD File
by alocurto 
Last I left off I was looking into what an AFD file was. I used Red Gate Softwares .NET Reflector (Originally Lutz Roeder's) and saw a lot of metion to Zip utilities and unpacking... so, I figured I'd change the extension from .AFD to .ZIP. IT WORKED! AFD files are simply ZIP files. I unzipped it and all this 
came out. I am going to examine the contents and post my findings.
12/02/08 02:30:59 pm, 
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Comment from: gopi [Visitor]
Hahaha! I have a sense of deja-vu...
One of the Logitech Anoto pens stored an XML file, which looked interesting, except it only had the metadata in a human readable format.
But there was this big block of ASCII bytes. It had a length tag that was longer than the block. And the block looked like MIME. 30 seconds in Python, de-MIMEd. But length doesn't match. The binary data is too short. I think it was gzipped, but I may be wrong. The first attempt worked, and...
XML! Of the strokes!
So an XML file containing MIMEd compressed XML in the middle. How perverse.
I can't wait to get in to the office where my Mac is and try to poke at the AFD file. Thank you for your poking. I just "cross-graded" from a Nokia SU-1B Bluetooth Anoto pen to the Livescribe. I want to get feature parity now...
One of the Logitech Anoto pens stored an XML file, which looked interesting, except it only had the metadata in a human readable format.
But there was this big block of ASCII bytes. It had a length tag that was longer than the block. And the block looked like MIME. 30 seconds in Python, de-MIMEd. But length doesn't match. The binary data is too short. I think it was gzipped, but I may be wrong. The first attempt worked, and...
XML! Of the strokes!
So an XML file containing MIMEd compressed XML in the middle. How perverse.
I can't wait to get in to the office where my Mac is and try to poke at the AFD file. Thank you for your poking. I just "cross-graded" from a Nokia SU-1B Bluetooth Anoto pen to the Livescribe. I want to get feature parity now...
12/10/08 @ 15:05
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