If you have Photoshop, AI and ID you transfer your PSE to beginner friend. I have no idea as to what File formats ID support that PSE would also support. I can not spell, type and failed every English course I had to take in school. I'm dyslectics have never been able to touch type publishing documentation is not in my repertoire. ID I believe is a Publishing layout application. If do not remember if PSE has Smart Object support.

Its been like twenty years since I last used PSE. The smart object layer is recreated the scaled size. The pes files contains stitches patterns with machine instructions that are used by Brother, Babylock, Bernina and another specialized embroidery machines. However, if you scale the vector smart object layer in Photoshop the layer will be scaled via vector graphics not interpolation like normals smart object layers. File extension pes is most likely best know for its use for a special embroidery design format used mainly in Brother machines. There will be no vectors in Photoshop for vector smart object they are in the smart Object file. However, in Photoshop you can Place in Vector Images as Vector Smart Objects. Photoshop and PS are Pixel editors they do not support Vector files.

AI is an Vector editor I do not install it for I do not know how to use it.

What file extension actually is Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the file name, so for example filename.mp3 has file extension mp3. You may be able to create a PSD in Photoshop that you can edit in PSE by not using Photoshop Features in Photoshop that are not in PSE. A pes file extension is related to the PhysicsEditor, a shape editing tool.

Pes file extension