Supported file formats
ACDSee 12 supports over 50 different file formats. The files that you can view or edit and save with ACDSee 12 depend on which file format support plug-ins are installed on your computer.
Image formats
Archive formats
Video and audio formats
File Formats that ACDSee 12 reads
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ABR |
Brush files |
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ANI |
Windows animated cursor |
Shows cursor animation |
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ART |
AOL ART |
Still images |
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BMP |
Windows Bitmap |
Windows and OS/2; 2/8/16/24/32 bpp; RLE and uncompressed |
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CNV |
Canvas |
Thumbnails only |
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CR2 |
Canon RAW CR2 |
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CRW |
Canon RAW CRW |
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CUR |
Windows cursor |
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CVX |
Canvas |
Thumbnails only |
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DCR |
Kodak RAW DCR |
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DCX |
Multiple-page PCX |
All sub-types and multiple pages supported |
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DNG |
Digital negative |
An open-source archival format for RAW files |
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DJV |
DjVu |
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EMF |
Enhanced Metafile Format |
Win32 enhanced placeable metafiles |
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EPS |
Encapsulated PostScript |
Displays embedded thumbnail (TIFF formats) and first page only |
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FPX |
FlashPix |
Multiple resolution support |
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GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
Single page and animated; 87a and 89a |
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ICN |
AT&T ICN |
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ICO |
Windows icon |
Shows multiple resolutions as separate pages |
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IFF |
EA/Amiga Interchange File Format |
1-24 bpp, including HAM and HAM8; multiple pages and animations not supported |
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JP2 |
JPEG2000 |
48-bit support |
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JPC |
JPEG2000 |
48-bit support |
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JPG |
JPEG JFIF |
JFIF and Adobeä CMYK |
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KDC |
Kodakä KDC |
Reads both the full image and the embedded thumbnail |
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MAG |
MAG |
All sub-types supported |
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MRW |
Konica Minolta RAW |
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NEF |
Nikon RAW |
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ORF |
Olympus RAW |
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PBM |
Portable BitMap |
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PCD |
Kodakä PhotoCD |
Up to 3072×2048 resolution (16BASE) |
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PCX |
ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush |
All sub-types supported |
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PEF |
Pentax RAW PEF |
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PGM |
Portable GrayMap |
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PIC |
SoftImage PIC |
All sub-types supported |
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PCT |
Macintosh PICT |
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Adobe Acrobat documents |
Can read all pages (Ghostscript 8.0 required) |
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PIX |
Alias PIX |
24 bpp |
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PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
All sub-types supported |
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PPM |
Portable PixMap |
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PS |
Adobe Postscript |
First page only |
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PSD |
Adobe PhotoShop Document |
RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only |
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PSP |
Paint Shop Pro |
Version 5 and version 6 |
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Quick-Time™ |
.qtif, .qif, .qfi |
Support for Apple QuickTime™ still image codecs |
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RAF |
Fujifilm RAW |
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RAS |
Sun Raster |
Uncompressed and RLE compressed |
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RAW |
Pentax RAW, Leica RAW, Contax RAW, Casio RAW |
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RSB |
Red Storm image format |
All sub-types are supported |
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SGI |
SGI Image Format |
8-32 bpp; no colormaps; RLE or uncompressed |
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TGA |
Targa TGA |
All sub-types supported |
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TIFF |
Tag Image File Format |
1/2/4/8/12/16 bits per sample, 1-4 samples per pixel 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 |
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WBMP |
Wireless Bitmap |
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WMF |
Windows Metafile Format |
Win 3.x placeable metafiles |
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XBM |
X bitmap |
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XPM |
X pixmap |
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BMP |
Windows Bitmap |
Windows 1/8/24 bpp |
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GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
Non-interlaced GIF 89a only |
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IFF |
EA/Amiga Interchange File Format |
1-24 bpp, including HAM and HAM8; multiple pages and animations not supported |
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JP2 |
JPEG2000 |
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JPEG |
JPEG JFIF |
8 and 24 bpp. Progressive and baseline; adjustable compression factor, subsampling, smoothing and Huffman code optimization |
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PCX |
ZSoft Publishers Paintbrush |
8 and 24 bpp; RLE compressed |
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PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
1/4/8 bpp colormapped; 24 bpp RGB |
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PSD |
Adobeä PhotoShop Document |
RGB, grayscale, duotone, paletted and bi-level Lab color interpreted as grayscale only |
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RAS |
Sun Raster |
Uncompressed and RLE compressed |
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RSB |
Red Storm image format |
All sub-types supported |
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SGI |
SGI Image Format |
8-32 bpp; no colormaps; RLE or uncompressed |
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WBMP |
Wireless Bitmap |
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TGA |
Targa TGA |
8 and 24 bpp. RLE and uncompressed, top-down and bottom-up |
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TIFF |
Tag Image File Format |
1/8/24 bits per pixel, single- |
Archive formats that ACDSee 12 reads
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ARJ |
ARJ archive |
ARJ format |
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CAB |
CAB archive |
Microsoft CAB file format |
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GZ |
GZ archive |
Unix GZIP (GnuZIP) |
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LHA |
LHA and LZH archives |
Lhd, lz4, lh0, lh1, lh4, lh5, lh6, lh7, Lzh |
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RAR |
RAR archive |
RAR format |
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TAR |
TAR archive |
Unix TAR format |
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TGZ |
TGZ archive |
TAR format compressed with GZIP |
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UU |
UU archive |
UUEncoded files |
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ZIP |
ZIP archive |
Store and Deflate |
Archive formats that ACDSee 12 writes
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LHA |
LHA and LZH archives |
Lhd, lz4, lh0, lh1, lh4, lh5, lh6, lh7, Lzh |
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ZIP |
ZIP archive |
ZIP format |
Video and audio file formats that ACDSee 12 reads
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AIF |
Audio Interchange File Format |
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AIFC |
Audio Interchange File Format |
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AIFF |
Audio Interchange File Format |
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ASF |
Active Streaming File – HoTMetaL Pro |
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AU |
A sound file format used on Sun Microsystems or other UNIX computers |
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AVI |
AVI movie format |
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GSM |
Global System for Mobile Audio |
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M15 |
Apple MPEG-1 Video |
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M1A |
Apple MPEG-1/2 Audio |
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M1V |
Apple MPEG-1 Video |
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M2A |
Apple Mpeg-1/2 Audio |
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M3U |
MP3 Playlist files |
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M75 |
Apple MPEG-1 Video |
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MOV |
QuickTime movie |
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MP2 |
MPEG Layer II compressed audio |
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MP3 |
MPEG Layer III compressed audio |
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MPA |
Apple MPEG-1/2 Audio |
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MPEG |
MPEG movie or animation file |
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MPG |
MPEG encoded file |
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MPV |
Apple MPEG-1 Video |
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QCP |
Qualcomm PureVoice |
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QTPF |
QuickTime PreFlight Text |
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SD2 |
Sound Designer II |
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SMI |
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
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SMIL |
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
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SML |
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
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SND |
Sound file |
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SWA |
MPEG layer III audio |
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SWF |
Adobe Flash 4 |
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ULW |
ULAW – Sun/NeXT |
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VFW |
Video for Windows |
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WAV |
Sound file |
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WMV |
Windows Metafile |