PES

PES is a machine embroidery format (a kind of vector graphics format) associated with Brother embroidery machines.

Identification
Files begin with ASCII characters " ".

Software

 * UniConvertor
 * ImageMagick can rasterize PES images
 * Thred Wiki lists some software

Sample files

 * EmbroiderySamples.Com provides files in PES and other formats
 * Thred Wiki lists some sample files

Links

 * Blog post by Linus Torvalds