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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 playback within the Portfolio application. Portfolio also has limited ability to batch convert certain imaging 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.

Updated for version 8.5.1 (Revised January 24, 2008)

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 FlashPix 1

       
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 Photoshop5

   
TGA Targa

N/A

   
TIFF Tagged Image File Format 2

 

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)

           

Digital Camera Raw Formats

Review the list of cameras supported by the Pro Photo Raw Image Filter


Document Formats

Thumbnails

Read Metadata

Create Preview

Multi-page Previews

Index Document Text

 

 

 

INDD Adobe InDesign 13

         
PDF Adobe Acrobat 4

     
AI Adobe Illustrator 3

         
PPT Microsoft PowerPoint 6

     
QXD Quark XPress 5 or Higher (Mac OS X) 8

         
DOC Microsoft Word 2003 or higher (Windows) 12

 

     
XLS Microsoft Excel 2003 or higher (Windows) 12

 

     
TXT Plain Text        

     
FHX Macromedia Freehand (Mac OS X) 7

       


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 Flash 9

         
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface N/A

         
MPEG-1

         
MPEG-2 10

         
MP3 Audio File N/A

         
MPEG-4

         
MOV QuickTime 10

         
MOV QuickTime VR

         
MOV QuickTime Cubic VR

         
WAV Wavform Audio Format N/A

         
DV Digital Video Stream

         
3GPP 3GP2 Mobile Phone Video

         

  1. Multi-page Previewing of Flashpix supported on Mac OS X only
  2. Currently does not support Zip compressed TIFF files
  3. Versions 2, CS, CS2 and CS3 (Mac only);requires user to set the embed preview option.
  4. PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7) supported on Mac OS X; PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7) supported on Windows.
  5. Images must be saved with maximum compatibility, when using layers. PSB, 16-bit LAB and 16-bit CMYK is not supported
  6. Windows supports PPT 2000 and higher. Mac supports PPT X, but requires PowerPoint X to be installed on the machine
  7. User must enable Portfolio thumbnail option in Freehand preferences.
  8. Mac OS X only; Requires Page2Pict XTension (third party Xtension).
  9. 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.).
  10. Requires QuickTime MPEG 2 plug-in available for purchase from Apple
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. 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