Formats supported in Adobe Experience Manager Assets

Experience Manager Assets supports a wide range of file formats and each functionality has varied support for different MIME types. To integrate Assets with other standards-compliant digital asset management (DAM) solutions and desktop software, use Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP).

Use the legend to understand the support level.

Support Level Description
✓ Supported
* Supported with add-on features
− Not applicable

Supported raster image formats in Experience Manager

The supported raster image formats in Assets are:

Format Storage Metadata management Metadata extraction Thumbnail generation Editing Metadata writeback Insights
PNG ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
GIF ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓
TIFF ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓ ✓
JPEG ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BMP ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓
PNM ✓ ✓ − − − − ✓
PGM ✓ ✓ − − − − ✓
PBM ✓ ✓ − − − − ✓
PPM ✓ ✓ − − − − ✓
PSD ‡ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − − ✓
EPS ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓ −
PICT − − − − − − ✓
PSB ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − − −

‡ The merged image is extracted from the PSD file. It is an image that is generated by Adobe Photoshop and is included in the PSD file. Depending on the settings, the merged image may or may not be the actual image.

In addition to the information above, consider the following:

  • The support for EPS files applies to raster images only. For example, thumbnail generation for EPS vector images is not supported by default. To add support, configure ImageMagick. To integrate third-party tools to enable additional capabilities, see Command line based Media Handler.

  • Metadata writeback works for PSB file format when it is added to the NComm handler.

  • For EPS files, metadata writeback is supported in PostScript Document Structuring Convention (PS-Adobe) version 3.0 or later.

Supported 3D formats

The following list of 3D formats is supported.

See also Working with 3D assets in Dynamic Media.

Format Storage Versioning Workflow Publishing Access control Thumbnail preview 3D preview Dynamic Media delivery
DN ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − −
gLB ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓ ✓
gLTF ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓ −
OBJ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓ ✓
STL ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓ ✓
USDz ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − − ✓

Supported PDF Rasterizer library

The Adobe PDF Rasterizer library generates high-quality thumbnails and previews for large and content-intensive Adobe Illustrator and PDF files. Adobe recommends using the PDF Rasterizer library for the following:

  • Content-intensive AI/PDF files that are resource-intensive to process.
  • AI/PDF files, for which thumbnails are not generated by default.
  • AI files with Pantone Matching System (PMS) colors.

See Using PDF Rasterizer.

Supported Image Transcoding library

The Adobe Imaging Transcoding library is an image-processing solution that performs core image-handling functions, such as, encoding, transcoding, resampling, and resizing.

Imaging Transcoding library supports JPG/JPEG, PNG (8-bit and 16-bit), GIF, BMP, TIFF/Compressed TIFF (apart from 32-bit TIFF files and PTIFF files), ICO, and ICN MIME types.

See Imaging Transcoding Library.

Supported Camera Raw

The Adobe Camera Raw library enables Assets to ingest raw images. See Camera Raw support.

Supported Assets document formats

Document formats supported for asset management features are as follows:

Format Storage Metadata management Full-text
extraction		 Metadata extraction Thumbnail
generation		 Subasset extraction Metadata writeback Connected Assets
AI ✓ ✓ − ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ −
DOC ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − ✓
DOCX ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − ✓
ODT ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − − ✓
PDF ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
HTML ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − − ✓
RTF ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − − ✓
TXT ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − − ✓
XLS ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − − ✓
XLSX ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − ✓
ODS ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − − −
PPT ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓
PPTX ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ − ✓
ODP ✓ ✓ ✓ − − − − −
INDD ✓ ✓ − ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ −
PS ✓ ✓ − − − − − −
QXP ✓ ✓ − − − − − −
EPUB ✓ ✓ − ✓ ✓ − − −

Supported multimedia formats

Storage Metadata management Metadata extraction Thumbnail generation FFmpeg transcoding
AAC ✓ ✓ − − *
MIDI ✓ ✓ − − *
3GP ✓ ✓ − − *
MP3 ✓ ✓ ✓ − *
MPG ✓ ✓ − − *
OGA ✓ ✓ − − *
OGG ✓ ✓ − − *
RA ✓ ✓ − − *
WAV ✓ ✓ − − *
WMA ✓ ✓ − − *
DVI ✓ ✓ − * *
FLV ✓ ✓ − * *
M4V ✓ ✓ − * *
MPEG ✓ ✓ − * *
OGV ✓ ✓ − * *
MOV ✓ ✓ − * *
WMV ✓ ✓ − * *
SWF ✓ ✓ − − −

Supported archive formats

The supported archive formats and the applicability of the common DAM workflows, is covered in the following table.

Formats Storage Versioning Workflow Publishing Access Control Dynamic Media Delivery
TGZ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ −
JAR ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ −
RAR ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ −
TAR ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ −
ZIP ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Other supported formats

The applicability of the usual DAM functionalities for a few specific file formats is described below.

Formats Storage Versioning Workflow Publishing Access Control Dynamic Media Delivery
SVG ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ −
CSS ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
VTT ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
XML ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
JavaScript (when configured with own delivery domain) − − − − − ✓
NOTE

Uploading and distributing JavaScript files may or may not be safe. If necessary, you can use overlays to prevent users from uploading JS files.

Supported MIME types

By default, Experience Manager detects the file type using the file extension. Experience Manager can detect it from the contents of the files. For latter, select Detect MIME from content option in Day CQ DAM Mime Type Service in the Experience Manager Web Console.

A list of supported MIME types is available in CRXDE Lite at /conf/global/settings/cloudconfigs/dmscene7/jcr:content/mimeTypes.

File extension MIME type/ Internet media type Default jobParam value Allowed jobParam value
Image image/s7asset usmAmount=1.75&usmRadius=0.2
&usmThreshold=2&usmMonochrome=0&		 The default jobParam applies to all image MIME type assets.
3G2 video/3gpp2 ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
3GP video/3gpp ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
AAC audio/x-aac
AFM application/x-font-type1
AI application/postscript aiprocess=Rasterize&airesolution=150
&aicolorspace=Auto&aialpha=false
AIFF audio/x-aiff
AVI video/x-msvideo ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
BMP image/bmp
CSS text/css
DOC application/msword
EPS
  • application/postscript
  • application/eps
  • application/x-eps
  • image/eps
  • image/x-eps
F4V video/x-f4v ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
FLA application/x-shockwave-flash
FLV video/x-flv ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
FPX image/vnd.fpx
GIF image/gif
ICC application/vnd.iccprofile
ICM application/vnd.iccprofile
INDD application/x-indesign
JPEG image/jpeg
JPG image/jpeg
M2V video/mpeg ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
M4V video/x-m4v ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MOV video/quicktime ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MP3 audio/mpeg
MP4 video/mp4 ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MPEG video/mpeg ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MPG video/mpeg ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MTS model/vnd.mts
OGV video/ogg ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
OTF application/x-font-otf
PDF application/pdf pdfprocess=Rasterize&resolution=150
&colorspace=Auto&pdfbrochure=false
&keywords=false&links=false		 pdfOptions
PFB application/x-font-type1
PFM application/x-font-type1
PICT image/x-pict
PNG image/png
PPT application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
PS application/postscript psprocess=Rasterize&psresolution=150
&pscolorspace=Auto&psalpha=false
&psextractsearchwords=false
&aiprocess=Rasterize&airesolution=150
&aicolorspace=Auto&aialpha=false
  • postScriptOptions
  • [illustratorOptions](https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/dynamic-media-developer-resources/image-production-api/data-types/r-illustrator-options.html
PSD image/vnd.adobe.photoshop process=None&layerNaming=Layername
&anchor=Center&createTemplate=false
&extractText=false&extendLayers=false
RTF application/rtf
SVG image/svg+xml
SWF application/x-shockwave-flash
TAR application/x-tar
TIF / TIFF image/tiff
TTC application/x-font-ttf
TTF application/x-font-ttf
VOB video/dvd ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
VTT text/vtt
WAV audio/x-wav
WEBM video/webm ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
WMA audio/x-ms-wma
WMV video/x-ms-wmv ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
XLS application/vnd.ms-excel
ZIP application/zip

Dynamic Media - Supported input video formats for transcoding

Video file extension Container Recommended video codecs Unsupported video codecs
AVI A/V Interleave XVID, DIVX, HDV, MiniDV (DV25), Techsmith Camtasia, Huffyuv, Fraps, Panasonic DVCPro Indeo3 (IV30), MJPEG, Microsoft® Video 1 (MS-CRAM)
FLV, F4V Adobe Flash H264/AVC, Flix VP6, H263, Sorenson SWF (vector animation files)
M4V Apple iTunes H264/AVC −
MKV Matroska H264/AVC −
MOV, QT Apple QuickTime H264/AVC, Apple ProRes422 & HQ, Sony XDCAM, Sony DVCAM, HDV, Panasonic DVCPro, Apple DV (DV25), Apple PhotoJPEG, Sorenson, Avid DNxHD, Avid AVR Apple Intermediate, Apple Animation
MP4 MPEG-4 H264/AVC (all profiles) −
MPG, VOB, M2V, MP2 MPEG-2 MPEG-2 −
MXF ‡ MXF Sony XDCAM, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Panasonic DVCPro −
OGV, OGG Ogg Theora, VP3, Dirac −
WebM WebM Google VP8 −
WMV Windows Media 9 WMV3 (v9), WMV2 (v8), WMV1 (v7), GoToMeeting (G2M2, G2M3, G2M4) Microsoft® Screen (MSS2), Microsoft® Photo Story (WVP2)

‡ This video format is not yet supported for use with Interactive Videos in Dynamic Media or for use with Annotation in Experience Manager Assets.

Dynamic Media - Supported document formats

Format Upload
(Input format)		 Create
image
preset
(Output format)		 Preview
dynamic
rendition		 Deliver
dynamic
rendition		 Download
dynamic
rendition
AI ✓ − − − −
INDD ✓ − − − −
PDF (See Note below) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
NOTE

For secure PDFs, only Upload is supported.

In addition to the above functionality, consider the following:

Dynamic Media - Supported raster image formats

Format Upload
(Input format)		 Create
image
preset
(Output format)		 Preview
dynamic
rendition		 Deliver
dynamic
rendition		 Download
dynamic
rendition		 Set types that support this format
PNG ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Image, Mixed Media, and Spin
GIF ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ −
TIFF ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Image, Mixed Media, and Spin
JPEG ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Image, Mixed Media, and Spin
BMP ✓ − − − − Image, Mixed Media, and Spin
PSD ‡ ✓ − − − − −
EPS ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ −
PICT ✓ − − − − −

‡ The merged image is extracted from the PSD file. It is an image that is generated by Adobe Photoshop and is included in the PSD file. Depending on the settings, the merged image may or may not be the actual image.

Dynamic Media - Unsupported raster image formats

The following list describes the subtypes of raster image file formats that are not supported in Dynamic Media.

See also Detect unsupported file formats for Dynamic Media Knowledge Base article.

  • PNG files that have an IDAT chunk size greater than 100 MB.
  • PSB files.
  • PSD files with a color space other than CMYK, RGB, Grayscale, or Bitmap are not supported. DuoTone, Lab, and Indexed color spaces are not supported.
  • PSD files that have a bit depth greater than 16.
  • TIFF files that have floating point data.
  • TIFF files that have Lab color space.

Dynamic Media - Supported 3D formats

Dynamic Media supports the following 3D formats.

See also Working with 3D assets in Dynamic Media.

3D file extension File format MIME type Notes
GLB Binary GL Transmission model/gltf-binary Includes the materials and textures as a single asset.
OBJ WaveFront 3D Object File application/x-tgif
STL Stereolithography application/vnd.ms-pki.stl
USDZ Universal Scene Description Zip archive model/vnd.usdz+zip Support for ingestion only; no viewing or interaction is available. USDZ is a proprietary 3D format that can be viewed natively by Safari and iOS devices.
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