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Graphics file formats

SDL Contenta products support several graphics file formats.

In the following table, read the column headers as follows:
  • Object type refers to the SDL Contenta S1000D Object Type
  • CaS 5.5/5.6 refers to SDL Contenta S1000D 5.5 and 5.6
  • AE 7.0 refers to Arbortext Editor 7.0
  • LCS 5.5/5.6 refers to SDL LiveContent S1000D 5.5 and 5.6
  • XPP 9.1/9.2 refers to SDL XML Professional Publisher 9.1 and 9.2
File extensionObject typeCaS 5.5/5.6AE 7.0 (1)LCS 5.5/5.6(4)XPP 9.1/9.2
bmpBMPyesyesnoyes
cgmCGMyesyes(2)yes (2,3)yes
edzn/anoyes(2)nono
epsEPSyesyesnoyes
gifGIFyesyesyesyes
ison/anoyes(2)nono
isozn/anoyes(2)nono
jpg, jpegJPGyesyesyesyes
pngPNGyesyesyesyes
pvzn/anoyes(2)nono
svgSVGyesyes(2)yesyes
tifTIFyesyesyes (3)yes
  1. Additional simple graphic file formats that Arbortext claims to support include: CALS, G4, IslandDraw, PCX, Sun Icon, Sun Raster, WMF, and X11-Bitmap.
  2. Requires Arbortext IsoView.
  3. CGM and TIF do not work natively in SDL LiveContent S1000D 5.5/5.6 on Linux. The plug-ins needed to view these formats in a browser on Windows (for example, IsoView) do not work on Linux.
  4. Graphics support in SDL LiveContent S1000D is browser-dependent: Internet Explorer supports the most formats, Firefox fewer, and iPad/Safari the fewest.