Accepted File Formats FAQ

We can accept a wide variety of file formats (below), however we prefer all files to be submitted as PDF files to minimize any font, image, text, or formatting complications.

Preparation Tips See our File Preparations Tips FAQ for details on submitting the highest quality files to eliminate extra file charges or production delays.

Accepted File Types Index
Desktop Publishing
Document Files
Raster Graphics Files
Spreadsheet Files
Vector Graphics Files

Desktop Publishing Files
.INDD – Adobe InDesign
.PUB – Microsoft Publisher

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Document Files (Text and Plain Text)
.DOC – Microsoft Word document
.DOCX – Office Open XML document
 .PDF – Portable Document Format
.RTF – Rich Text document

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Raster Graphics Files (images as a group of pixels)

.BMP – Microsoft Windows Bitmap formatted image
.GIF – CompuServe's Graphics Interchange Format .JP2 – JPEG2000
.JPG – Joint Photographic Experts Group – a lossy image format widely used to display photographic images.
.JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group – a lossy image format widely used to display photographic images.
.PNG – Portable Network Graphic lossless, for display and edition of graphic images
.PSD – Adobe Photoshop Drawing
.TIF – Tagged Image File Format
.TIFF – Tagged Image File Format
 
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Spreadsheet Files

.CSV – Comma-Separated Values
.TAB – tab delimited columns; also TSV
.TSV – tab separated columns; also TAB
.TXT – tab delimited columns
.TXT - Fixed column width
 .XLS – Microsoft Excel worksheet sheet (97–2003)
.XLSX – Microsoft Excel worksheet sheet

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Vector Graphics Files (graphics using geometric primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons to represent images).
.AI – Adobe Illustrator Document
.EPS – Encapsulated Postscript
.PDF – Portable Document Format
.PS – PostScript 
.XPS – Microsoft XML file similar to a PDF file
 
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