Supported File Formats
Supported in ACDSee 14 and ACDSee Pro 5
Image read support format
| ABR | Adobe™ brush format | |
| ANI | Windows animated cursor | Shows cursor animation |
| ART | AOLART | Still images (Win XP only) |
| ARW | Sony RAW | |
| BMP | Windows Bitmap | Windows and OS/2; 2/8/16/24/32 bpp; RLE and uncompressed |
| CNV | Canvas | Thumbnails only |
| CR2 | Canon RAW CR2 | |
| cRAW | Sony cRAW | |
| CRW | Canon RAW CRW | |
| CUR | Windows cursor | |
| CVX | Canvas | Thumbnails only |
| DCR | Kodak RAW DCR | |
| DCX | Multi-page PCX | All sub-types and multiple pages supported |
| DNG | Digital Negative | An open-source archival format for RAW files |
| DJV | DjVu | |
| EMF | Enhanced Metafile Format | Win32 enhanced placeable metafiles |
| ERF | Epson RAW | |
| EPS | Encapsulated PostScript | Displays embedded thumbnail (TIFF formats) and first page only |
| FPX | FlashPix | Multiple resolution support |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | Single page animated; 87a and 89a |
| HDR | Creo RAW | |
| ICN | AT&T ICN | |
| ICO | Windows icon | Shows multiple resolutions as separate pages |
| IFF | EA/Amiga Interchange File Format | 1-24 bpp, including HAM and HAMS8; multiple pages and animations not supported |
| JBR | Corel brush format | |
| JP2 | JPEG2000 | 48-bit support |
| JPC | JPEG2000 | 48-bit support |
| JPG | JPEG JFIF | JFIF and Adobe CMYK |
| KDC | Kodak KDC | Reads both the full image and the embedded thumbnail |
| MAG | MAG | All sub-types supported |
| MRW | Konica Minolta RAW | |
| NEF | Nikon RAW | |
| ORF | Olympus RAW | |
| PBM | Portable BitMap | |
| PBR | Corel PaintShop Pro brush format | Up to 3072x2048 resolution (16BASE) |
| PCD | Kodak PhotoCD | |
| PCX | ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush | All sub-types supported |
| PEF | Pentax RAW PEF, Samsung RAW | |
| PGM | Portable GrayMap | |
| PIC | SoftImage PIC | All sub-types supported |
| PCT | Macintosh PICT | |
| Adobe Acrobat documents | Can read all pages | |
| PIX | Alias PIX 24 bpp | |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | All sub-types supported |
| PPM | Portable PixMap | |
| PS | Adobe PostScript | First page only |
| PSD | Adobe PhotoShop Document | RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only |
| Quick Time |
.qtif, .qif, qfi | Support for Apple QuickTime still image codecs |
| RAF | FujiFilm RAW | |
| RAS | Sun Raster | Uncompressed and RLE compressed |
| RAW | Pentax RAW, Leica RAW, Contax RAW, Casio RAW, Panasonic RAW | |
| RSB | Red Storm image format | All sub-types supported |
| sRAW | Canon sRAW | |
| SGI | SGI image format | 8-32 bpp; no colormaps; RLE or uncompressed |
| TGA | Targa TGA | All sub-types supported |
| TIFF | Tag Image File Format | Bilevel / RGB / Paletted / CMYK / YCrCb / LOGL / LOGLUV; Uncompressed / PackBits / LZW / ThunderScan / SGILog / CCITT / ZIP / NEXT / New-JPEG (no v6.0 JPEG support) Support for multiple-page documents Kodak RAW TIFF, Canon RAW TIFF |
| WBMP | Wireless Bitmap | |
| WMF | Windows Metafile Format | Win 3.x placeable metafiles |
| XBM | X BitMap | |
| XPM | X pixmap |
Image write support format
| BMP | Windows Bitmap | Windows 1/8/24 bpp |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | Non-interlaced GIF 89a only |
| IFF | EA/Amiga Interchange File Format | 1-24 bpp, including HAM and HAMS8; multiple pages and animations not supported |
| JP2 | JPEG2000 | |
| JPEG | JPEG JFIF | |
| PCX | ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush | 8 and 24 bpp; RLE compressed |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | 1/4/8 bpp colormapped; 24 bpp RGB | PSD | Adobe PhotoShop Document | RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only |
| RAS | Sun Raster | Uncompressed and RLE compressed |
| RSB | Red Storm image format | All sub-types supported |
| SGI | SGI image format | 8-32 bpp; no colormaps; RLE or uncompressed |
| WBMP | Wireless Bitmap | |
| TGA | Targa TGA | 8 and 24 bpp. RLE and uncompressed top-down and bottom-up |
| TIFF | Tag Image File Format | 1/8/24 bits per pixel, single-page; uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT4, LZW, Deflate (ZIP), and JPEG compression; Adjustable DPI tags |
Archive read support formats
| ARJ | ARJ archive | ARJ format |
| CAB | CAB archive | Microsoft CAB file format |
| GZ | GZ archive | Unix GZIP (GnuZIP) |
| LHA | LHA and LZH archives | Lhd, lz4, lh0, lh1, lh4, lh5, lh6, lh7, Lzh |
| RAR | RAR archive | RAR format |
| TAR | TAR archive | Unix TAR format |
| TGZ | TGZ archive | TAR format compressed with GZIP |
| UU | UU archive | UUEncoded files |
| ZIP | ZIP archive | Store and deflate |
Archive write support formats
| LHA | LHA and LZH archives | Lhd, lz4, lh0, lh1, lh4, lh5, lh6, lh7, Lzh |
| ZIP | ZIP archive | Store and deflate |
Video and audio read support formats
| AIF | Audio Interchange File Format |
| AIFC | Audio Interchange File Format |
| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format |
| ASF | Active Streaming File - HotMetaL Pro |
| AU | A sound format used on Sun Microsystems or other UNIX computers |
| AVI | AVI movie format |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile Audio |
| M15 | Apple MPEG-1 Video |
| M1A | Apple MPEG-1/2 Audio |
| M1V | Apple MPEG-1 Video |
| M2A | Apple MPEG-1/2 Audio |
| M3U | MP3 Plalist files |
| M75 | Apple MPEG-1 Video |
| MOV | QuickTime movie |
| MP2 | MPEG Layer II compressed audio |
| MP3 | MPEG Layer III compressed audio |
| MPA | Apple MPEG-1/2 Audio |
| MPEG | MPEG movie or animation file |
| MPG | MPEG encoded file |
| MPV | Apple MPEG-1 Video |
| QCP | Qualcomm PureVoice |
| QTPF | QuickTime PreFlight Text |
| SD2 | Sound Designer II |
| SMI | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SML | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SND | Sound file |
| SWA | MPEG layer III audio |
| SWF | Adobe Flash |
| ULW | ULAW - Sun/NeXT |
| VFW | Video For Windows |
| WAV | Sound file |
| WMV | Windows Metafile |
