Supported File Formats and Conversions

File formats, supported by the Assembly Cloud API, can be categorized into two groups:

  • Multipurpose document formats, that you can generally use for import, export and different types of conversions.
  • File formats, that are generally used for export purposes, such as Adobe portable document (PDF), printing language, e-book, and other formats.

A complete list of supported multipurpose formats is presented below and includes a wide variety of Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Email and Web document formats.

In each of the following tables the leftmost column represents a source multipurpose format, whereas the rightmost represents a list of target formats, to which the source format could potentially be converted.

Microsoft Office Word Document Formats

The following Microsoft Word document formats and their conversions are supported:

FormatDescriptionSupported Format Conversions
Microsoft Word 97 - 2007 Document
Microsoft Word 97 - 2007 Template
Office Open XML WordprocessingML Document (macro-free)
Office Open XML WordprocessingML Macro-Enabled Document
Office Open XML WordprocessingML Template (macro-free)
Office Open XML WordprocessingML Macro-Enabled Template
Rich Text Format

Microsoft Office Excel Document Formats

The following Microsoft Excel spreadsheet formats and their conversions are supported:

FormatDescriptionSupported Format Conversions
XLSXOOXML 2007-2010
XLSMOOXML Macro Enabled Workbook
XLTXOOXML Workbook Template
XLTMOOXML Macro Enabled Workbook Template
XLSBOOXML Binary Workbook
XLSExcel Workbook 97-2003
XLTExcel Workbook Template 97-2003

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Document Formats

The following Microsoft PowerPoint presentation formats and their conversions are supported:

FormatDescriptionSupported Format Conversions
PPTXOOXML Presentation
PPTMOOXML Macro Enabled Presentation
PPSXOOXML SlideShow
PPSMOOXML Macros Enabled Presentation
POTPowerPoint template files created by PowerPoint 97-2003 versions
POTXOOXML Presentation Template
POTMOOXML Macro Enabled Presentation Template
PPTPowerPoint Presentation 97-2003
PPSPowerPoint SlideShow 97-2003

OpenOffice Document Formats

The following OpenOffice document formats and their conversions are supported:

FormatDescriptionSupported Format Conversions
ODTOpen Text Document
OTTOpen Text Document Template
ODSOpen Document Spreadsheet
ODPOpen Document Presentation
OTPOpen Document Presentation Template

Email Document Formats

The following email document formats and their conversions are supported:

FormatDescriptionSupported Format Conversions
MSGOutlook Email Message Format
EMLEmail Message Format
EMLXApple’s Email Message Format

Web Document Formats

The following Web document formats and their conversions are supported:

FormatDescriptionSupported Format Conversions
HTMLHypertext Markup Language
MDMarkdown Documentation
TXTPlain Text
MHTMLMime HTML
MHTMime HTML Web Archive