Question & Answer
Question
The DB2® Document Manager Viewer uses two engines for rendering documents and images: the Bedrock Engine and INSO engine.
Cause
The Readme and Administration Guide do not list supported file types.
Answer
The Bedrock engine is used to handle MO:DCA™ documents. This includes PTOCA, IOCA, GOCA which are various flavors of MO:DCA document format.
MO:DCA is a document/image format invented by IBM® research, and extensively used in some of our older products like ImagePlus® and Content Manager Versions 5.1 through 7.1.
The following document formats are supported by INSO:
Database Formats
| Access | Versions through 2.0 |
| dBASE | Versions through 5.0 |
| DataEase | Version 4.x |
| dBXL | Version 1.3 |
| Enable | Versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5 |
| First Choice | Versions through 3.0 |
| FoxBase | Version 2.1 |
| Framework | Version 3.0 |
| Microsoft® Works for Windows® | Versions through 4.0 |
| Microsoft Works (DOS) | Versions through 2.0 |
| Microsoft Works (Mac) | Versions through 2.0 |
| Paradox (DOS) | Versions through 4.0 |
| Paradox (Windows) | Versions through 1.0 |
| Personal R:BASE | Version 1.0 |
| R:BASE 5000 | Versions through 3.1 |
| R:BASE System V | Version 1.0 |
| Reflex | Version 2.0 |
| Q & A | Versions through 2.0 |
| SmartWare II | Version 1.02 |
Spreadsheet Formats
| Enable | Versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5 |
| First Choice | Versions through 3.0 |
| Framework | Version 3.0 |
| Lotus® 1-2-3® (DOS & Windows) | Versions through 5.0 |
| Lotus 1-2-3 (OS/2) | Versions through 2.0 |
| Lotus 1-2-3 Charts (DOS & Windows) | Versions through 5.0 |
| Lotus 1-2-3 for SmartSuite | Versions 97 - Millennium 9.6 |
| Lotus Symphony | Versions 1.0,1.1 and 2.0 |
| Microsoft Excel Charts | Versions 2.x - 7.0 |
| Microsoft Excel Macintosh | Versions 3.0 – 4.0, 98, 2001 |
| Microsoft Excel Windows | Versions 2.2 through 2002 |
| Microsoft Multiplan | Version 4.0 |
| Microsoft Works for Windows | Versions through 4.0 |
| Microsoft Works (DOS) | Versions through 2.0 |
| Microsoft Works (Mac) | Versions through 2.0 |
| Mosaic Twin | Version 2.5 |
| Novell Perfect Works | Version 2.0 |
| PFS:Professional Plan | Version 1.0 |
| Quattro Pro for DOS | Versions through 5.0 |
| Quattro Pro for Windows | Versions through 10 |
| SmartWare II | Version 1.02 |
| StarOffice Calc for Windows and UNIX® | Version 5.2 |
| SuperCalc 5 | Version 4.0 |
| VP Planner 3D | Version 1.0 |
Presentation Formats
| Corel/Novell Presentations | Versions through 10 |
| Harvard Graphics for DOS | Versions 2.x & 3.x |
| Harvard Graphics for Windows | Windows versions |
| Lotus Freelance Graphics® for Windows | Versions through Millennium 9.6 |
| Freelance for OS/2® | Versions through 2.0 |
| Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows | Versions 3.0 through 2002 |
| Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac | Versions 4.0 through 2001 |
| StarOffice Impress for Windows and UNIX | Version 5.2 |
Graphic Formats
| Adobe® Photoshop (PSD) | Version 4.0 |
| Adobe Illustrator | Versions through 7.0, 9.0 |
| Adobe FrameMaker graphics (FMV) | Vector/raster through 5.0 |
| Adobe Acrobat (PDF) | Versions through 5.0 |
| Ami Draw (SDW) | Ami Draw |
| AutoCAD Interchange format (DXF) | Versions 12 - 14 |
| AutoCAD Native Drawing format (DWG) | Versions 12 - 14 |
| AutoShade Rendering (RND) | Version 2.0 |
| Binary Group 3 Fax | All versions |
| Bitmap (BMP, RLE, ICO, CUR, OS/2 DIB & WARP) | |
| CALS Raster (GP4) | Type I and Type II |
| Corel Clipart format (CMX) | Versions 5 through 6 |
| Corel Draw (CDR) | Versions 6.0 - 8.0 |
| Corel Draw (CDR with TIFF header) | Versions 2.0 - 9.0 |
| Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) | ANSI, CALS NIST version 3.0 |
| Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) | TIFF header only |
| GEM Paint (IMG) | |
| Graphics Environment Mgr (GEM) | Bitmap & vector |
| Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) | |
| Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL) | Version 2 |
| IBM Graphics Data Format (GDF) | Version 1.0 |
| IBM Picture Interchange Format (PIF) | Version 1.0 |
| Initial Graphics Exchange Spec (IGES) | Version 5.1 |
| JFIF (JPEG not in TIFF format) | All versions |
| JPEG (including EXIF) | |
| Kodak Flash Pix (FPX) | |
| Kodak Photo CD (PCD) | Version 1.0 |
| Lotus PIC | |
| Lotus Snapshot | All versions |
| Macintosh PICT1 & PICT2 | Bitmap only |
| MacPaint (PNTG) | |
| Micrografx Draw (DRW) | Versions through 4.0 |
| Micrografx Designer (DRW) | Versions through 3.1 |
| Micrografx Designer (DSF) | Windows 95, version 6.0 |
| Novell PerfectWorks (Draw) | Version 2.0 |
| OS/2 PM Metafile (MET) | Version 3.0 |
| Paint Shop Pro 6 (PSP) | Win32 only, versions 5.0-6.0 |
| PC Paintbrush (PCX and DCX) | |
| Portable Bitmap (PBM) | All versions |
| Portable Graymap (PGM) | No specific version |
| Portable Network Graphics (PNG) | Version 1.0 |
| Portable Pixmap (PPM) | No specific version |
| Adobe PostScript (PS) | Level II |
| Progressive JPEG | No specific version |
| Sun Raster (SRS) | No specific version |
| TIFF | Versions through 6 |
| TIFF CCITT Group 3 & 4 | Versions through 6 |
| Truevision TGA (TARGA) | Version 2 |
| Visio (preview) | Version 4 |
| Visio | Versions 5, 2000 and 2002 |
| WBMP | No specific version |
| Windows Enhanced Metafile (EMF) | No specific version |
| Windows Metafile (WMF) | No specific version |
| WordPerfect Graphics (WPG & WPG2) | Versions through 2.0 |
| X-Windows Bitmap (XBM) | x10 compatible |
| X-Windows Dump (XDM) | x10 compatible |
| X-Windows Pixmap (XPM) | x10 compatible |
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Document Information
More support for:
Document Manager
Software version:
8.3, 8.4
Operating system(s):
Windows
Document number:
343945
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg21221056