Formats supported in Adobe Experience Manager Assets
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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 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:
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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.
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Metadata writeback works for PSB file format when it is added to the
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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.
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:
extraction
generation
Supported multimedia formats
Supported archive formats
The supported archive formats and the applicability of the common DAM workflows, are covered in the following table.
Other supported formats
The applicability of the usual DAM functionalities for a few specific file formats is described below.
NOTESupported 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.
usmAmount=1.75&usmRadius=0.2&usmThreshold=2&usmMonochrome=0&The default jobParam applies to all image MIME type assets.
aiprocess=Rasterize&airesolution=150&aicolorspace=Auto&aialpha=false- application/postscript
- application/eps
- application/x-eps
- image/eps
- image/x-eps
pdfprocess=Rasterize&resolution=150&colorspace=Auto&pdfbrochure=false&keywords=false&links=falsepsprocess=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
process=None&layerNaming=Layername&anchor=Center&createTemplate=false&extractText=false&extendLayers=falseDynamic Media - Supported input video formats for transcoding
‡ 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
NOTEIn addition to the above functionality, consider the following:
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To use Dynamic Media to generate dynamic renditions for PDF files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.
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To use Dynamic Media to preview and generate dynamic renditions for AI files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.
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To use Dynamic Media to generate dynamic renditions for INDD files, see InDesign (INDD) file format.
Dynamic Media - Supported raster image formats
‡ 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.
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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.
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To use Dynamic Media to preview and generate dynamic renditions for EPS files, see Adobe Illustrator (AI), Postscript (EPS), and PDF file formats.
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For EPS files, metadata writeback is supported in PostScript Document Structuring Convention (PS-Adobe) version 3.0 or later.
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.