Canvas X Draw (macOS) Supported File Types

Canvas X Draw (macOS) Supported File Types


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Adobe® Illustrator® CS (AI)Bitmap (BMP/RLE)Support Raster Format (CAL)Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)Canvas X (CVX/CNV/CV5)
CVDRAW (CVD)Canvas Draw Template (CVDTPL)Canvas X Image File (CVI)Canvas 3.5, ArtWorks (CVS)AutoCAD® Native Files (DWG)
AutoCAD® Drawing Interchange (DXF)Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)GIF Graphics (GIF)Icon File (ICO)IFF (IFF)
JPEG Graphics (JPG)Kodak Photo CD (PCD)Paintbrush Bitmap (PCX)Adobe® Acrobat® (PDF)Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Printer (PS) Files (PRN)PostScript® Files (PS)Rich Text Format (RTF)TARGA Bitmap (TGA)TIFF Image (TIF)
Canvas X Template (TPL)Plain Text (TXT)Wireless Bitmap (WNBMP)
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Bitmap (BMP)Support Raster Format (CAL)Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)Canvas Draw (CVD)Canvas Draw Template (CVDTPL)
AutoCAD® Native Files (DWG)AutoCAD® Drawing Interchange (DXF)GIF Graphics (GIF)Web Files (HTM)Icon File (ICO)
IFF (IFF)JPEG Graphics (JPG)Paintbrush Bitmap (PCX)Adobe® Acrobat® (PDF)Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Scalable Vector Graphics – Compressed (SVGZ)TIFF Image (TIF)Wireless Bitmap (WBMP)
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