Adobe TypeAlign text illustration
File type: Document file
A tal file extension is related to the Adobe TypeAlign and used for its text illustration files.
Found 4 different file type records with the same tal filename suffix.
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: October 25, 2018
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The tal file extension is related to the Adobe TypeAlign app.
Software from Adobe that is used to align text to different shapes; for example, wrapping text around a circle or along the borders of an irregular or multi-sided object.
The tal file stores text illustration data.
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: June 18, 2019
The tal file extension is associated with the BrainVoyager QX, a tool for various platforms and used for files that contain Talairach coordinates, including AC, PC and cerebral border points.
Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving tal files:
Multiplatform
File type category:
Source code and script file
Date updated: April 10, 2019
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The tal file extension is also related to Transaction Application Language or TAL (Tandem Application Language), a block-structured, procedural language optimized for use on Tandem hardware.
TAL resembles a cross between C and Pascal.
It was the original system programming language for the Tandem CISC machines, which had no assembler.
Use compatible tools to work with *.tal files.
Probably can be compiled to other formats.
File type category:
Source code and script file
Date updated: October 2, 2026
Typed Assembly Language extends traditional untyped assembly languages with typing annotations, memory-management primitives, and a sound set of typing rules. These rules guarantee the memory safety, control-flow safety, and type safety of TAL programs.
Its typing constructs can represent records and structures, arrays, higher-order and polymorphic functions, exceptions, abstract data types, subtyping, and modules. TAL also supports low-level compiler optimizations, making it a target for type-directed compilers that produce verifiably safe code for secure mobile-code applications and extensible operating-system kernels.
A variant for Intel's IA32 architecture, called TALx86, was implemented along with a compiler for the safe C-like Popcorn language, which compiled Popcorn programs to TALx86.
A .tal file is source text and can be viewed in any text editor. To process it as Typed Assembly Language, use a compatible TAL toolchain; TALx86 files require tools that support the TALx86 variant and its Intel IA32 target.
If the file came from a Popcorn or TAL compiler project, open it with the corresponding development tools rather than a general-purpose assembly-language program.
They are source files for a typed assembly-language toolchain, so converting them to another source language normally requires rewriting the code or regenerating it from the original program.
A compatible compiler or assembler can process TAL or TALx86 source into the machine-code or intermediate build output supported by that toolchain. Keep the original .tal file when the source code needs to remain editable.
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