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Table 2 List of file formats that can be used in direct placement into portable document format (PDF) documents using Adobe Acrobat versions 9 and X

From: Effectively incorporating selected multimedia content into medical publications

Multimedia type

File format or type

File extension

Audio

MP3 audio

mp3

Three-dimensional image

Autodesk 3D Studio

3ds

 

Product Representation Compact (PRC)

prc

 

Stereolithography

stl

 

Universal 3D

u3d

 

Virtual Reality Modelling Language

vrml, wrl

 

Wavefront Object

obj

Video

Flash video

flv, f4v

 

MPEG

mp4, m4v

 

QuickTime Movie

mov

 

Shockwave Flash

swf

  1. The freely available LaTeX package movie15 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ covers a similar range of file formats. The 3D file formats presented here constitute a selection of those available.