Microsoft Windows printing spool
File type: System file
An spl file extension is related to the Microsoft Windows and used for its printing spool files.
Found 8 different file type records with the same spl filename suffix.
File type category:
System file
Date updated: December 30, 2024
The spl file extension is related to print job file used in previous versions of Microsoft Windows operating system.
An spl file contains commands.
The print job’s spooled data is contained in a spool file. For each print job there are two spool files generated by the Windows NT/2000 spooler.
Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Audio and sound file
Date updated: November 10, 2024
The spl file extension was also used for some older 8, 16-bits, mono sound format. Contains loops, names, huffman packing, collections.
Most likely no longer used. Extension might have been shared by different programs, like Digitrakker.
You can playback these files using Awave Studio.
Probably can be converted to other formats.
Awave Studio (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: June 23, 2025
The spl file extension is related to the HPGL (also known as HP-GL), a primary printer control language used by Hewlett-Packard plotters. The name is an initialism for Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language.
Th spl file stores data using HPGL.
Use XnView to view content of *.spl files.
XnView is able to export *.spl files to other formats.
XnView MP (Multiplatform)
XnView MP (Multiplatform)
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: August 4, 2014
The SPL file extension is also used in InfinityGame engine. The Infinity Engine is a computer game engine which allows the creation of isometric computer role-playing games.
It was developed by BioWare for Battleground Infinity which later became the first installment of the Baldur's Gate series. BioWare used it again in the subsequent installments of the series, but also licensed the engine to Interplay's Black Isle Studios.
A *.spl file contains data about spells include mage spells, priest spells, innate abilities, special abilities and effects used for game advancement.
Baldur's Gate (Microsoft Windows)
Baldur's Gate II (Microsoft Windows)
Icewind Dale (Microsoft Windows)
Planescape: Torment (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: November 24, 2024
The spl file extension is related to the Macromedia FutureSplash Animator.
FutureSplash Animator was a software product for creating vector-based animations, the predecessor of Flash.
It was developed by FutureWave Software, a small software company whose first product, SmartSketch, was a vector-based drawing program for pen-based computers. In 1995, the company decided that they should add animation capabilities to their product and deploy it over the burgeoning World Wide Web.
The only way to create such animations on the web at the time was through the use of Java, but this was quickly replaced with the debut of Netscape's plug-in architecture.
Mime types:
application/futuresplash
application/x-futuresplash
Use FutureSplash Animator to work with *.spl files.
The *.spl files can be exported to other file formats.
Adobe Flash Player (Multiplatform)
File type category:
3d graphics, CAD-CAM-CAE file
Date updated: August 23, 2018
The spl file extension is also used by sPlan for Windows, a program for files that contain saved circuit diagrams.
The sPlan is a software used to quickly design schematic circuit diagrams.
You can open and edit these *.spl file using sPlan
Probably can be exported to other formats.
sPlan (Microsoft Windows)
sPlan (Microsoft Windows)
sPlan (Microsoft Windows)
sPlan (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: October 11, 2010
File extension used by Split File Shell Extension for created split files.
Split File Shell Extension (Microsoft Windows)
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: May 12, 2019
The spl file extension is associated with WinView /400 and used for report files.
The compressed variant of these files have the ZSP file extension instead.
Most likely some old format without support. No further information could be found.
WinView /400 (Microsoft Windows)