Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ISL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ISL to another file type
To convert ISL scripts to another format, you need InstallShield or other Developer software.
Convert a file to ISL
To convert other file formats to the "Installation Script File" file type, you need software like InstallShield or a similar tool.
About ISL files
The .ISL file extension primarily functions as an InstallShield Script File or an Inno Setup Language File. Software developers use these files to dictate installation parameters, translate setup wizards, and manage UI styles during software deployment. Alternatively, in the gaming world, it acts as a proprietary save state for the Jurassic World Evolution game engine. To open or modify an .ISL file, you typically need the software that created it, such as InstallShield or Inno Setup. Some variants, like Infragistics UI component style libraries, use UTF-8 or XML encoding and can be opened in advanced text editors. The main disadvantage of the .ISL format is its extreme fragmentation. Because the same extension is used by completely unrelated programs, opening it blindly usually results in errors. Furthermore, these files are proprietary to their respective ecosystems. End-users often encounter them by mistake when navigating application directories and find them impossible to read without buying specialized developer tools. If you need to share the contents of a text-based installation script, the best conversion targets are XML, TXT, or DOCX. Converting to these formats makes the code readable for documentation, though it will lose its executability in the installer engine. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert because its internal structure depends entirely on the parent software. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ISL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ISL file to , you can use InstallShield or similar software from the "Installation Scripting and Translation" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to ISL, try InstallShield or another comparable tool in the "Installation Scripting and Translation" category.
The ISL Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ISL converter.