Vector image formats

The following table lists supported vector image formats:

Format Version (if applicable)
Adobe Illustrator 4.0 - 7.0, 9.0
Adobe Illustrator (XMP only) 11 - 13 (CS 1 - 3)
Adobe InDesign (XMP only) 3.0 - 5.0 (CS 1 - 3)
Adobe InDesign Interchange (XMP only)
Adobe Photoshop (XMP only) 8.0 -10.0 (CS 1 - 3)
Adobe PDF 1.0 - 1.7 (Acrobat 1 - 9)
Adobe PDF Package 1.7 (Acrobat 8 - 9)
Adobe PDF Portfolio 1.7 (Acrobat 8 - 9)
Adobe Photoshop 4.0
Ami Draw SDW
AutoCAD Drawing 2.5, 2.6
AutoCAD Drawing 9.0 - 14.0
AutoCAD Drawing 2000i - 2010
AutoShade Rendering 2.0
Corel Draw 2.0 - 9.0
Corel Draw Clipart 5.0, 7.0
Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
Escher graphics
FrameMaker Vector and Raster Graphics (FMV) 3.0 - 5.0
Gem File (Vector)
Harvard Graphics Chart (DOS) 2.0 - 3.0
Harvard Graphics for Windows
HP Graphics Language 2.0
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) Drawing 5.1 - 5.3
Micrografx Designer Through 3.1
Micrografx Designer 6.0
Micrografx Draw Through 4.0
Microsoft XPS (Text only)
Novell PerfectWorks Draw 2.0
OpenOffice Draw 1.1 - 3.0
Oracle Open Office Draw 3.x
Visio (Page Preview mode only WMF/EMF) 4
Visio 5.0 - 2007
Visio XML VSX (File ID only) 2007
Windows Metafile

Notes on Adobe PDF text extraction

The IAS Document Conversion Module works as follows when processing Adobe PDF files with security settings:
  • The IAS Document Conversion Module will respect the no-copy option of a PDF. That is, if a PDF publishing application has a no-copy option (which prohibits the copying or extraction of text within the PDF), the Document Conversion Module will not extract text from that PDF.
  • The IAS Document Conversion Module does not support text extraction from password-protected files.
  • The IAS Document Conversion Module does not support text extraction from PDFs with encrypted content.

To extract the text from these types of PDFs, you must re-create them without setting the appropriate security option.

In addition, text added with the Sticky Note tool is not extracted.