In many Windows setups, when you print directly to a printer, two files are typically created in the windows spool directory "C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS". A spool file "80021.SPL" and a shadow file "80021.SHD" are examples of these files. The spool file contains the meat and potatoes of the drawing instructions so the printer can print the page. The data in this spool file comes in a smorgasbord of different formats depending on the language technology and the print driver used. However, when you are printing to a printer that's on a print server, a single ".TMP" file is created instead and gets transmitted to the print server. I think its fair to assume that this is just the .SHD and .SPL files combined into a single transport file to get it to the server. However, its unreadable, i'm nto sure if its zipped, encrypted, or what, but I can't decipher it. When printing PDFs you can typically see plain text PostScript instructions in the spool file (.SPL), by just opening it and viewing it in a text editor. You can even send that spool file (.SPL) to a postscript viewer like GhostScript and have it show you the pages drawn on screen. But when the job is all packaged up in a .TMP file, its basically just a binary pile of bits. Does anyone know how to uncompress the data from these transport .TMP spool files?
File format of spool files with .tmp extensions?
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I believe that file you have will be an EMF file that is padded with a proprietary MS structure at the beginning. Easiest way to find out if you are dealing with an EMF structure is to look for the ANSI characters ' EMF' in tmp file you have.
Assuming that you do find these characters it is just a matter of removing the proprietary structure data from the beginning of the file then treating it as a standard EMF file. Fortunately all EMF files have a standard header format so it should be reasonably to determine where the EMF file starts.
There is a good description of EMF file headers here