file-type: PDF created with Adobe Illustrator are wrongly detected as .ai files
Since #323 (src: Add support for AI files (Adobe Illustrator)), file-type looks for the text “Adobe Illustrator” in PDF documents and if it matches, it assumes it’s an adobe .ai file.
It seems that normal PDF created with Adobe Illustrator will contain the text “Adobe Illustrator” quite a few times in the metadata too, even though they are not Adobe Illustrator files.
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- State: closed
- Created 4 years ago
- Comments: 15 (7 by maintainers)
We’ve also encountered this same regression. We rely on the PDF detection functionality to validate specific PDF processing requests but as of
file-type@14.1.0this process breaks as file-type returns the files as.ai(application/postscript).Is there a solution in mind here? I’d suggest it’s more of a ‘bug’ than an ‘enhancement’ as it is falsely identifying one file type as another.
For now, we’ve pinned to
14.0.0until this is resolved. We’ll also look at submitting a PR if we can determine a nice fix on our side.