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Other file formats

Contenta products support several additional file formats.

In the following table, read the column headers as follows.
  • Object type refers to the SDL Contenta S1000D Object Type
  • CaS refers to SDL Contenta S1000D 5.9
  • AE refers to Arbortext Editor 8.x
  • OXA refers to Oxygen XML Author 22.1
  • LCS refers to SDL LiveContent S1000D 5.9
  • XPP refers to SDL XML Professional Publisher 9.1 and later
File extensionObject typeCaSAEOXALCSXPP
pdfPDFyesmaybe (1)maybe (5)yesyes(3)
swfSWFyesmaybe (1)maybe (5)yes (2)n/a
flaFLA(4)yesmaybe (1)maybe (5)yes (2)n/a
  1. Arbortext Editor can be configured if a plug-in (ActiveX viewer) is available.
  2. Requires an external viewer (plug-in).
  3. Single-page PDFs only.
  4. CSS and JavaScript (JS) files are supported to work in conjunction with FLA multimedia files in SCORM packages.
  5. Requires an Oxygen add-in.