Acquia DAM

Managing your supported file formats

You can upload, download, and distribute any file format on Acquia DAM Classic. However, admins can configure Acquia DAM Classic to accept or exclude only specific file formats from being uploaded.

Configure the supported file formats

  1. Sign in to Acquia DAM Classic.

  2. Click the settings icon, and then click System Preferences.

  3. In the Supported File Extensions section, select from the following options, based on your requirements:

    • Allow certain file extensions

    • Prevent certain file extensions

  4. Click File extensions to allowlist or denylist certain file formats. The following values are the default for each:

    • allowlist defaults: 3d, abf, acfm, afm, ai, amfm, arw, avi, bdf, bmp, cha, chr, compositefont, cr2, crw, csv, dcr, dfont, dng, doc, docx, dotm, dotx, dst, dwg, dwx, emf, eot, eps, etx, euf, f3f, ffil, fnt, fon, fot, gdr, gf, gif, gxf, htm, html, idml, iiq, ind, indd, jpeg, jpg, k25, kdc, key, lwfn, m2v, m4v, mcf, mef, mf, mos, mos, mov, mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpg, mrw, mxf, mxf, nef, nftr, numbers, ogg, orf, otf, pages, pcf, pdf, pef, pfa, pfb, pfm, pfr, pk, png, potx, ppt, pptx, prproj, psb, psd, pub, pxn, qxd, qxp, raf, rar, raw, raw, raw, raw, rtf, sfd, sfp, sit, sitx, sketch, sr2, srf, stl, suit, svg, svgz, targa, tfm, tga, tif, tiff, tsv, tsv, ttc, tte, ttf, txf, txt, vfb, vlw, vnf, wav, wdtx, wma, wmv, woff, wpd, xfn, xft, xls, xlsx, xltx, xml, ytf, zip

    • denylist defaults: application, aru, bat, chm, cla, class, cmd, com, cpl, cpl, dll, drv, ecc, exe, gadget, hta, hta, inf, ins, jar, js, jse, lnk, met, micro, msc, msh, msh1, msh1xml, msh2, msh2xml, mshxml, msi, msp, ocx, pif, ps1, ps1xml, ps2, ps2xml, psc1, psc2, reg, scf, scr, shs, sys, vb, vbe, vbs, vxd, ws, ws, wsc, wsf, wsh, xtbl

  5. Enter or remove the file extensions. Separate file extensions by commas (for example: jpg, png, psd) and don’t add capitalization or periods.

  6. If needed, you can click Reset to update the file extensions back to the default allowlisted and denylisted file extensions.

  7. Click Save. During the save process, Acquia DAM Classic will alphabetize the file format list.

File formats and settings

Acquia DAM Classic supports additional functionality for the following media file types.

Note

Previews are supported with Multi-Media Module activated.

Image file types

File type

Extension

Preview Available*

In-Document Sharing

Bitmap Image

.bmp

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Graphical Interchange Format File

.gif

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Joint Photographic Experts Group File

.jpg, .jpeg

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Portable Network Graphic File

.png

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Tagged Image File Format

.tif, .tiff

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Audio / video file types

File type

Extension

Preview Available*

In-Document Sharing

Audio Video Interleave

.avi

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MPEG Audio

.mp3

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MPEG Movie

.mpg, .mpeg

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MPEG-2 Video

.m2v

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MPEG-4 Video

.m4v, .mp4

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QuickTime Movie

.mov

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Targa Image File

.tga, .targa

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WAVE Audio

.wav

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Windows Media Audio

.wma

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Windows Media Video

.wmv

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Page layout file types

File type

Extension

Preview Available*

In-Document Sharing

Encapsulated PostScript File

.eps

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Illustrator Vector Image

.ai

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InDesign

.ind, .indd

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Portable Document Format File

.pdf

(non-secured PDF only)

Photoshop Image

.psd

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Miscellaneous file types

File type

Extension

Preview Available*

In-Document Sharing

Excel

.xls, .xlsx

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PowerPoint

.ppt, .pptx

Word

.doc, .docx

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Comma-Separated Values

.csv

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Tab-Separated Values

.tsv

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Plain Text File

.txt

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Hypertext Markup Language File

.htm, .html

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Camera RAW file types

File type

Extension

Preview Available*

In-Document Sharing

Canon

.cr2, .crw

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Contax

.raw

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Fujifilm

.raf

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Kodak

.dcr, .k25, .kdc, .raw

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Konica Minolta

.mrw

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Leaf

.mos

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Leica

.raw

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Logitech

.pxn

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Mamiya

.mos, .mef

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Nikon

.nef

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Olympus

.orf

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Panasonic

.raw

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Pentax, Samsung

.pef

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Phase One

.iiq

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Sony

.arw, .sr2, .srf

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Universal Camera RAW Image Format

.dng

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