The following tables describes all the formats supported by CQ DAM as well as features supported for each format.
Note: Using Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) allows CQ5 DAM to integrate out of the box with other standards-compliant digital asset management solutions and desktop software, such as Adobe Creative Suite CS4.
The following legend describes the level of support CQ DAM offers for a feature:
| Support Level | Description |
|---|---|
| ✓ | Supported |
| + | Supported with add-on features |
| - | Not applicable |
| Storage | Metadata management | Metadata extraction | Thumbnail generation | Interactive editing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PNG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GIF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TIFF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| JPEG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BMP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PNM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PGM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PBM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PPM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PSD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| EPS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Storage | Metadata management | Fulltext extraction | Metadata extraction | Thumbnail generation | Sub-asset extraction | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| DOCX* | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| ODT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| HTML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| RTF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| TXT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| XLS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| XLSX* | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| ODS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| PPT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| PPTX* | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| ODP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| INDD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| PS | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| QXP | ✓ | ✓ |
*Note: Office 2007 or newer formats are not fully supported. Convert to older, more compatible formats before uploading.
| Storage | Metadata management | Metadata extraction | Thumbnail generation | Transcoding | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAC | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| MIDI | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| 3GP | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| MP3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | + |
| M4A | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| MPG | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| OGA | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| OGG | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| RA | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| WAV | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| WMA | ✓ | ✓ | - | + | |
| DVI | ✓ | ✓ | + | + | |
| FLV | ✓ | ✓ | + | + | |
| M4V | ✓ | ✓ | + | + | |
| MPEG | ✓ | ✓ | + | + | |
| OGV | ✓ | ✓ | + | + | |
| MOV | ✓ | ✓ | + | + | |
| WMV | ✓ | ✓ | + | + | |
| SWF | ✓ | ✓ |
| Storage | Metadata management | Sub-asset extraction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| TGZ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| JAR | ✓ | ✓ | |
| RAR | ✓ | ✓ | |
| TAR | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ZIP | ✓ | ✓ |
| Storage | Metadata management | Metadata extraction | Thumbnail generation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVG | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| other | ✓ | ✓ | ||
