Portfolio Standalone File Formats
Portfolio File Format Support
Portfolio is capable of cataloging any digital file. It also has the ability to generate or extract thumbnails, generate screen previews and extract a range of metadata from most standard graphic and video formats.
Supported audio and video formats will play back within the Portfolio application. Portfolio also has limited ability to batch convert certain image formats to TIFF, JPEG and VFZ/PFZ formats. Portfolio can also embed IPTC and XMP metadata into TIFF and JPEG formats, and index and search text from select documents.
Portfolio’s current supported file formats are listed here. File formats not listed will be visually cataloged as icons, allowing users to link to the original files for editing. The Mac OS X version may extract thumbnails from additional formats from the resource fork.
The list of Raw digital camera formats supported by Portfolio Standalone is available here.
Updated for version 8.5.6 (Revised August 18, 2011)
Image Formats
| Thumbnails | Read Metadata | Create Preview | Multi-page Previews | Convert to JPEG | Convert to TIFF | Convert to VFZ/PFZ | Embed Metadata | |
| BMP Bitmap | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | ||
| EPS Encapsulated Postscript | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | ||
| FPX FlashPix1 | • | • | • | • | ||||
| GIF Graphics Interchange Format | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | ||
| JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | • | • |
| JPEG 2000 (Mac OS X) | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | ||
| PCD Kodak PhotoCD | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | ||
| PICT QuickTime Picture | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | ||
| PNG Portable Network Graphics | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | ||
| PSD Adobe Photoshop2 | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| TGA Targa | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | ||
| TIFF Tagged Image File Format3 | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
| TIFF Fax | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| WMF Windows Metafile Format (Windows) | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | ||
| VFZ/PFZ PixelLive (3.0 SDK) | • | • | • | N/A | • | • | • | |
| STN Genuine Fractals 3.5 | • | • | ||||||
| SID Multiresolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) | • | • |
Document Formats
| Thumbnails | Read Metadata | Create Preview | Multi-page Previews | Index Document Text |
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| INDD Adobe InDesign4 | • | • | • | ||
| PDF Adobe Acrobat5 | • | • | • | • | • |
| AI Adobe Illustrator6 | • | • | • | ||
| PPT Microsoft PowerPoint7 | • | • | • | • | • |
| QXD QuarkXPress 5 or Higher (Mac OS X)8 | • | • | • | ||
| DOC Microsoft Word 2003 or higher (Windows)9 | • | • | • | • | |
| XLS Microsoft Excel 2003 or higher (Windows)9 | • | • | • | • | |
| TXT Plain Text | • | ||||
| FHX Macromedia Freehand (Mac OS X)10 | • | • |
Audio/Video Formats
| Thumbnails | Read Metadata | Play Media | |
| AIFF Audio Interchange File Format | N/A | • | • |
| AU Sun Microsystems Audio File | N/A | • | • |
| AVI Audio Video Interleave | • | • | • |
| SWF Shockwave Flash11 | • | • | • |
| MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface | N/A | • | • |
| MPEG-1 | • | • | • |
| MPEG-212 | • | • | • |
| MP3 Audio File | N/A | • | • |
| MPEG-4 | • | • | • |
| MOV QuickTime13 | • | • | • |
| MOV QuickTime VR | • | • | • |
| MOV QuickTime Cubic VR | • | • | • |
| WAV Wavform Audio Format | N/A | • | • |
| DV Digital Video Stream | • | • | • |
| 3GPP 3GP2 Mobile Phone Video | • | • | • |
Notes
| 1 Multi-page Previewing of Flashpix supported on Mac OS X only |
| 2 Images must be saved with maximum compatibility, when using layers. PSB, 16-bit LAB and 16-bit CMYK is not supported |
| 3 Currently does not support Zip compressed TIFF files |
| 4 To use the first page of documents as the thumbnail and preview image, choose InDesign > Preferences > File Handling (Mac) or Choose Edit > Preferences > File Handling (Windows) in Adobe InDesign. Enable the “Always Save Preview Images with Documents” option, choose a preview size and click OK. |
| 5 PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7) supported on Mac and Windows |
| 6 Versions 2, CS, CS2 and CS3 (Mac only); requires user to set the embed preview option |
| 7 Windows supports PPT 2000 and higher. Mac supports PPT X, but requires PowerPoint X to be installed on the machine |
| 8 Mac OS X only; Requires Page2Pict XTension (third-party Xtension) |
| 9 Microsoft Word (DOC) format and Excel (XLS) formats are only supported on Windows. PPT format (2000, 2003) is supported on Windows. PPT is supported on Mac OS X, under Office X only, which must be installed on the machine performing the cataloging (Portfolio client or Server.) Office 2007 Open XML file formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) are not supported and must be saved in legacy (DOC, XLS, PPT) format before they can be cataloged correctly in Portfolio. |
| 10 User must enable Portfolio thumbnail option in Freehand preferences |
| 11 SWF: Support for SWF (Flash 6) via QuickTime 7.3.0 or lower, must be enabled. (As of QuickTime 7.3.1 SWF not supported.) |
| 12 Requires QuickTime MPEG 2 plug-in available for purchase from Apple |
| 13 Supports a wide range of video codecs including: Animation, Apple BMP, Apple Pixlet (Mac OS X 10.3) Apple Video, Cinepak, Component Video, DV and DVC Pro NTSC, DV PAL, Graphics, H.261, H.263, H.264, JPEG2000 (Mac OS X), Microsoft OLE, Microsoft Video 1, Motion JPEG A, Motion JPEG B, MPEG-4, Photo JPEG, Planar RGB, PNG, Sorenson Video 2, Sorenson Video 3, TGA and TIFF. For the best results be sure to download the most recent version of Apple QuickTime |
