Friday - The Automatic FAQ Maker
Note for all versions: Portfolio uses a file extension, if present, as the primary means of file type identification on Windows and Mac. This is notable as some Mac users who have applied info for different to extensions and type - usually to address legacy issues - have expected the Mac client to use Mac OS 'Type' info rather than the Extension if a clash occurs, the Extension being considered a Windows OS issue. Certainly since the move to OS X, as the two main OSs grow closer in style, mainstream Mac programs are adopting the file extensions so it is best to both use them and use the correct ones!
File type support by client version:
| Image Formats | |||||||
| Format | Thumbnail | Read metadata | Create previews | Create multi-page previews | Batch Convert to (JPEG/TIFF) | Convert to VFZ/PFZ | Embed metadata |
| BMP - Bitmap | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| EPS - Encapsulated Postscript (1) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| FPX - FlashPix (2) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| GIF - Graphic Interchange Format | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| JPEG - Joint Photographics Expert Group | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| JPEG 2000 (Mac OS X only) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| PCD - Kodak Photo CD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| PICT - QuickTime Picture | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| PNG - Portable Network Graphics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| PSD - Adobe Photoshop (3) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| TGA - Targa | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| TIFF - Tagged Image File Format (4) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| TIFF - TIFF Fax | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WMF - Windows Media Format (Windows only) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| VFZ/PFZ PixelLive (3.0 SDK) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| STN - Genuine Fractals 3.5 | Yes | Yes | |||||
| DNG - Adobe Digital Negative | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| SID Multiresolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Document Formats | |||||||
| Format | Thumbnail | Read metadata | Create previews | Create multi-page previews | Index Document Text | ||
| INDD - Adobe InDesign (5) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| PDF - Adobe Acrobat (6) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| PSD - Adobe Photoshop (7) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| AI - Adobe Illustrator (8) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| PPT - Microsoft PowerPoint (9) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| TXT - Plain Text | Yes | Yes | |||||
| FHX - Macromedia Freehand (Mac OS X only) (10) | Yes | Yes | |||||
| QXD - Quark XPress 5 or higher (Mac OS X only, requires XTension) (11) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| DOC - Microsoft Word 2003 or higher (requires optional filter, Windows OS only) (12) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| XLS - Microsoft Excel 2003 or higher (requires optional filter, Windows OS only) (12) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Audio/Video Formats | |||||||
| Format | Thumbnail | Play Media | |||||
| AIFF - Audi Interchange File Format | Yes | Yes | |||||
| AU - Sun Microsystem Audio File | Yes | Yes | |||||
| AVI - Audio Video Interleave | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| SWF - Flash/Shockwave (v6 and lower) (13) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Macintosh Sound File | Yes | Yes | |||||
| MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface | Yes | Yes | |||||
| MPEG-1 - Moving Pictures Experts Group Type 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| MPEG-2 - Moving Pictures Experts Group Type 2 (14) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| MP3 - MPEG -1 Layer 3 Audio File | Yes | Yes | |||||
| MPEG-4 - Moving Pictures Experts Group | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| MOV - QuickTime Movies (15) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| MOV - QuickTime VR | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| MOV - QuickTime Cubic VR | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| WAV - Waveform Audio formant | Yes | Yes | |||||
| DV - Digital Video Stream | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 3GPP - 3GP2 Mobile Phone Video | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Notes: 1. EPS Support: Very complex EPS files could be problematic, please check for compatibility with complex EPS files. 2. Flashpix: Multi-page Previewing of Flashpix supported on Mac OS X only. 3. PSD Support. Files containing Adobe Smart Objects may have problems creating thumbnails and/or previews. 4. TIFF. Currently does not support Zip compressed TIFF files (though you may find the latter do work, based on user experiments). 5. InDesign. Version 2 & CS, Mac only. Requires the user to set the embed preview option. Adobe CS2 made changes that in some instances broke this feature for Portfolio, v8.1 restores it. 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. 6. Acrobat. Supports flattened paths with no transparency. For best results save for v5 compatibility. PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7) supported on Mac OS X; PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7) supported on Windows. Not stated, but assume v8.5.x supports CS3/v8 PDF. 7. Images must be saved with maximum compatibility setting (i.e. flattened preview). Does not support: PSB, 16-bit LAB and 16-bit CMYK are not supported. 8. Illustrator. Versions 2, CS, CS2 and CS3 (Mac only); requires user to set the embed preview option. Older AI versions are no longer supported. 9. Windows supports PPT 2000 and 2003. Mac supports PPT X (PPT 2004 from v8.5). For extended previewing, PowerPoint must be installed on the user's computer. 10. Freehand. The user must enable the Portfolio thumbnail option in Freehand Preferences. 11. Quark. Mac OS X only. Thumbnail creation requires a (free) third party XTension from Matrix software to be installed in Quark v6; the same XTension can be obtained for Quark v7 but is no longer free and must be purchased from the XTension maker. The XTension can be downloaded from Extensis' website. The download contains a separate drop-in Quark XTension for each major version of Quark up to v7. 12. Microsoft Word (DOC) format and Excel (XLS) formats are only supported on Windows. PPT format (2000, 2003) is supported on Windows. 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 catalogued correctly in Portfolio. 13. SWF. As from QuickTime v7.3.1, Apple dropped support for Flash(SWF) playback, for security reasons. Portfolio user with QT v7.3.1+ will no longer be able to thumbnail or preview SWF within the client. An alternative solution is likely to be added in due course. 14. MPEG-2. Requires a pay-for QuickTime MPEG 2 plug-in available for purchase from Apple. 15. QuickTime movies. Supports a wide range of video codecs including: Animation, Apple BMP, Apple Pixlet (Mac OS 10.3+, Apple Video, Cinepak, Component Video, DV and DVC Pro NTSC, DV PAL, Graphivs, H.261, H.263, 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 best results download the latest version of QuickTime. |
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