Files formats supported in Adobe Experience Manager Assets

Last update: May 3, 2023

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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 LevelDescription
✓Supported
*Supported with add-on features
−Not applicable

Raster image formats

Raster image formats supported for asset management features are as follows:

FormatStorageMetadata managementMetadata extractionThumbnail generationInteractive editingMetadata writebackInsights
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.

Raster image formats supported for Dynamic Media features are as follows:

FormatUpload
(Input format)		Create
image
preset
(Output format)		Preview
dynamic
rendition		Deliver
dynamic
rendition		Download
dynamic
rendition
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.

  • To use Dynamic Media to preview and generate dynamic renditions for EPS files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.

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

Unsupported raster image formats in Dynamic Media

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

See also Detect unsupported file formats for Dynamic Media.

  • 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.

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.

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.

Camera Raw

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

Document formats

Document formats supported for asset management features are as follows:

FormatStorageMetadata
management		Fulltext
extraction		Metadata
extraction		Thumbnail
generation		Subasset
extraction		Metadata
writeback
AI✓✓✓✓✓✓
DOC✓✓✓✓
DOCX✓✓✓✓
ODT✓✓✓
PDF✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
HTML✓✓✓
RTF✓✓✓
TXT✓✓✓
XLS✓✓✓
XLSX✓✓✓✓
ODS✓✓✓
PPT✓✓✓✓✓✓
PPTX✓✓✓✓✓✓
ODP✓✓✓
INDD✓✓✓✓✓✓
PS✓✓
QXP✓✓
EPUB✓✓✓✓

Document formats supported for Dynamic Media features are as follows:

FormatUpload
(Input format)		Create
image
preset
(Output format)		Preview
dynamic
rendition		Deliver
dynamic
rendition		Download
dynamic
rendition
AI✓
DOC
DOCX
ODT
PDF (See Note below)✓✓✓✓✓
HTML
RTF
TXT
XLS
XLSX
ODS
PPT
PPTX
ODP
INDD✓
PS
QXP
EPUB
NOTE
For secure PDFs, only Upload is supported.

In addition to the above functionality, consider the following:

Multimedia formats

FormatStorageMetadata managementMetadata extractionThumbnail generationFFMPEG transcoding
AAC✓✓−*
MIDI✓✓−*
3GP✓✓−*
MP3✓✓✓−*
MPG✓✓−*
OGA✓✓−*
OGG✓✓−*
RA✓✓−*
WAV✓✓−*
WMA✓✓−*
DVI✓✓**
FLV✓✓**
M4V✓✓**
MPEG✓✓**
OGV✓✓**
MOV✓✓**
WMV✓✓**
SWF✓✓

Input video formats for Dynamic Media Transcoding

Video file extensionContainerRecommended video codecsUnsupported video codecs
MP4MPEG-4H264/AVC (all profiles)
MOV, QTApple QuickTimeH264/AVC, Apple ProRes422 & HQ, Sony XDCAM, Sony DVCAM, HDV, Panasonic DVCPro, Apple DV (DV25), Apple PhotoJPEG, Sorenson, Avid DNxHD, Avid AVRApple Intermediate, Apple Animation
FLV, F4VAdobe FlashH264/AVC, Flix VP6, H263, SorensonSWF (vector animation files)
WMVWindows Media 9WMV3 (v9), WMV2 (v8), WMV1 (v7), GoToMeeting (G2M2, G2M3, G2M4)Microsoft Screen (MSS2), Microsoft Photo Story (WVP2)
MPG, VOB, M2V, MP2MPEG-2MPEG-2
M4VApple iTunesH264/AVC
AVIA/V InterleaveXVID, DIVX, HDV, MiniDV (DV25), Techsmith Camtasia, Huffyuv, Fraps, Panasonic DVCProIndeo3 (IV30), MJPEG, Microsoft Video 1 (MS-CRAM)
WebMWebMGoogle VP8
OGV, OGGOggTheora, VP3, Dirac
MXFMXFSony XDCAM, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Panasonic DVCPro
MTSAVCHDH264/AVC
MKVMatroskaH264/AVC
R3D, RMRed Raw VideoMJPEG 2000
RAM, RMRealVideoUnsupportedReal G2 (RV20), Real 8 (RV30), Real 10 (RV40)
FLACNative FlacFree lossless audio codec
MJ2Motion JPEG 2000Motion JPEG 2000 codec

Archive formats

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

FormatStorageVersioningWorkflowPublishingAccess ControlDynamic Media Delivery
TGZ✓✓✓✓✓
JAR✓✓✓✓✓
RAR✓✓✓✓✓
TAR✓✓✓✓✓
ZIP †✓✓✓✓✓✓

† 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. The ZIP archives created using Deflate64 algorithm have limited support in AEM. Archive and un-archive operations are not supported. However, operations like uploading, browsing, and downloading are supported.

Other supported formats

The applicability of common DAM workflows for a few other file formats is described in the table below.

FormatStorageVersioningWorkflowPublishingAccess ControlDynamic Media Delivery
#✓✓✓✓✓
SVG✓✓✓✓✓
CSS✓✓✓✓✓✓
VTT✓✓✓✓✓✓
XML✓✓✓✓✓✓
JavaScript (when configured with own delivery domain)✓

# The other formats are supported in DAM for storage, versioning, ACL, workflow, publishing, and metadata management.

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 are available in CRXDE Lite at /conf/global/settings/cloudconfigs/dmscene7/jcr:content/mimeTypes.

File extensionMIME type/ Internet media typeDefault jobParam valueAllowed jobParam value
Imageimage/s7assetusmAmount=1.75&usmRadius=0.2
&usmThreshold=2&usmMonochrome=0&

The default jobParam applies to all image mime type assets.

3G2video/3gpp2ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
3GPvideo/3gppExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
AACaudio/x-aac
AFMapplication/x-font-type1
AIapplication/postscriptaiprocess=Rasterize&airesolution=150
&aicolorspace=Auto&aialpha=false
AIFFaudio/x-aiff
AVIvideo/x-msvideoExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
BMPimage/bmp
CSStext/css
DOCapplication/msword
EPS
  • application/postscript
  • application/eps
  • application/x-eps
  • image/eps
  • image/x-eps
F4Vvideo/x-f4vExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
FLAapplication/x-shockwave-flash
FLVvideo/x-flvExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
FPXimage/vnd.fpx
GIFimage/gif
ICCapplication/vnd.iccprofile
ICMapplication/vnd.iccprofile
INDDapplication/x-indesign
JPEGimage/jpeg
JPGimage/jpeg
M2Vvideo/mpegExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
M4Vvideo/x-m4vExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MOVvideo/quicktimeExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MP3audio/mpeg
MP4video/mp4ExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MPEGvideo/mpegExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MPGvideo/mpegExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
MTSmodel/vnd.mts
OGVvideo/oggExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
OTFapplication/x-font-otf
PDFapplication/pdfpdfprocess=Rasterize&resolution=150
&colorspace=Auto&pdfbrochure=false
&keywords=false&links=false		pdfOptions
PFBapplication/x-font-type1
PFMapplication/x-font-type1
PICTimage/x-pict
PNGimage/png
PPTapplication/vnd.ms-powerpoint
PSapplication/postscriptpsprocess=Rasterize&psresolution=150
&pscolorspace=Auto&psalpha=false
&psextractsearchwords=false
&aiprocess=Rasterize&airesolution=150
&aicolorspace=Auto&aialpha=false
PSDimage/vnd.adobe.photoshopprocess=None&layerNaming=Layername
&anchor=Center&createTemplate=false
&extractText=false&extendLayers=false
RTFapplication/rtf
SVGimage/svg+xml
SWFapplication/x-shockwave-flash
TARapplication/x-tar
TIF / TIFFimage/tiff
TTCapplication/x-font-ttf
TTFapplication/x-font-ttf
VOBvideo/dvdExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
VTTtext/vtt
WAVaudio/x-wav
WEBMvideo/webmExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
WMAaudio/x-ms-wma
WMVvideo/x-ms-wmvExcludeMasterVideoFromAVS
XLSapplication/vnd.ms-excel
ZIPapplication/zip
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