Autodesk Animator FLIC animation (old format)
File type: Digital video and movie file
A fli file extension is related to the Autodesk Animator software and used for its animation format (old version).
Found 3 different file type records with the same fli filename suffix.
File type category:
Digital video and movie file
Date updated: June 23, 2025
Autodesk Animator animation old format (Autodesk FLIC format), a format developed by Autodesk that is designed for storing brief animations.
FLI is limited to images 320 by 200 pixels and allows a palette of 256 colors (although the palette can be changed from line to line to give more colors per frame).
FLI is based on a fixed frame rate specified in "ticks per frame" (there are 70 ticks per second), and has an implicit 6:5 aspect ratio.
All FLI animations must loop, but in practice this requirement is often ignored. The image data in FLI files is compressed using a Run-length compression scheme. This is suitable for animations, but is inappropriate for videos or dithered images.
Mime types:
video/fli
video/x-fli
Use Autodesk Animator to work with *.fli files.
Autodesk Animator may be able to export *.fli files to other formats.
Software applications that can open fli files:
Microsoft MS-DOS
Software applications that can edit fli files:
Microsoft MS-DOS
Software capable of saving fli files:
Microsoft MS-DOS
Programs for viewing fli files:
Multiplatform
Software apps that create fli files:
Microsoft MS-DOS
Software apps that convert fli files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that print fli files:
Multiplatform
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File type category:
Bitmap image file
Date updated: October 30, 2019
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The fli file extension is associated with the FLI Graph, a picture image editing program for Commodore C64, an 8-bit computer released in 1982.
The fli file contains picture image (148x200, 16 colors).
Use RECOIL to open *.fli files.
Probably can be exported to other formats.
File type category:
Font and typeface file
Date updated: September 30, 2026
EmTeX is a TeX distribution and set of tools originally developed for DOS systems. Its font libraries allowed related font data to be kept together for use by TeX drivers and other EmTeX programs. A .fli file contains an EmTeX font library.
TeX works with the METAFONT language for describing fonts and with the Computer Modern typefaces. It was designed to make high-quality typesetting accessible with a reasonable amount of effort and to produce the same results on different computers, now and in the future.
EmTeX and the FLI format are legacy technology associated mainly with DOS-based TeX installations. Modern TeX distributions generally use other font-file arrangements, so FLI files are now encountered chiefly when maintaining older EmTeX documents or installations.
A .fli file is normally read by the EmTeX program that needs its font library, rather than opened as a standalone file. Keep it in the font-library location configured for the relevant EmTeX driver or typesetting installation.
Because EmTeX is legacy DOS software, a current operating system may require a suitable DOS environment or emulator to run the original tools. A text editor or general font viewer will not display the contents as a normal font.
There is usually no useful standalone conversion for an EmTeX .fli file. It is a runtime font library, not a document format. If the font data is needed in another format, use the original TeX or METAFONT sources, or separately available generated font files, with suitable font tools.
When rebuilding an old installation, the practical option is to regenerate the required fonts and library with the appropriate EmTeX and TeX tools rather than convert the FLI file directly.
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