Convert PDF to DOC – better quality conversions
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More good Zamzar news – we’ve improved the quality of all our PDF to DOC (MS Word) conversions.
Converting from Adobe’s PDF format to Microsoft Word’s DOC format is handy as it can allow you to make changes to otherwise un-editable PDF documents. We’ve made the following updates to Zamzar:
- Wider support for different PDF versions
- Improved results for documents with complex tables
- Better recognition of paragraph alignments
Why not try out these new conversion capabilities on the Chuck Norris factbook PDF ? 
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert FLV (Flash) videos at higher quality
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We’re continuing to rollout improvements to video files converted through Zamzar and we’re pleased to announce that we’ve raised the quality for all FLV (Flash video) conversions.
The FLV format is used by many online video sharing websites (such as YouTube, Dailymotion and others) as a means of encoding videos for users to view through web pages.
The improvements we’ve made mean that if you convert Flash videos through Zamzar into other formats you should now see:
- Higher resolution within converted videos (better picture quality)
- Noticeably improved sound quality
Converted videos will be larger, but we hope this is more than made up for by the higher quality you now get. If you want smaller files you can always convert files into a lower quality format such as 3gp, or a highly compressed format such as avi or mp4.
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert MOV to AVI at high quality
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We’re constantly looking to improve the quality of file conversions we do here at Zamzar and we’re currently on a drive to improve our many video conversions.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve made improvements in the way that we convert Apple’s popular Quicktime movie format (known as “.mov”) into avi, mpg, wmv and other formats. Zamzar now allows you to:
- Convert a wider variety of MOV file versions
- Convert MOV files at a higher quality than previously
We hope you enjoy these improvements – do let us know in the comments or on our Twitter or a Facebook pages how we can continue improving things for you.
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert PDF to Excel (xls) – online and free !
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We’re excited to announce that you can now use Zamzar to convert PDF files into Excel (XLS) files – all online and all for free.
We hope this will be especially useful for all of you who have to deal with data locked away in PDF files that needs to be manipulated or analysed in a spreadsheet.
You might, for example want to use Zamzar to convert Apple’s latest set of financial figures into an Excel file:
.. or your local train timetable:
Don’t forget that you can use Zamzar’s URL feature to grab a pdf file directly from another site on the web and convert it into xls. Just head on over to Zamzar to get converting !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team
Zamzar named in Guardian’s “top 100 sites” for 2009
The Guardian has just announced their list of the Top 100 websites for 2009 and we’re honoured that Zamzar has been recognised in the “Create/collaborate” section.
Zamzar is one of only 2 sites in that section which remain from the Guardian’s 2008 list (the other being NetVibes).
We’ve worked hard this year to improve the site with dozens of new conversion types (including CAD, Visio and MS Project) and the ability to convert documents into speech.
We’re excited about what 2010 has in store, but we wouldn’t be anywhere without you.
So a big thanks to all of you who use the service, tell your friends and colleagues about it and keep us busy with suggestions on how to improve it 
Happy Converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Vote for Zamzar in the Oscars ?
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The good folks at TechCrunch have just announced that voting has opened for the 2009 “Crunchie” awards which recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.
If you’ve had fun using Zamzar then why not nominate us for the best international startup award ? Nominations close at midnight PST December 4, 2009.
You can read more about the 2009 Crunchies here.
Happy voting !
The Zamzar Team.
Birthday competition results
First of all, a big thanks to all of you who took the time out to enter the Zamzar third birthday competition.
We had a great time reading all of your entries, and a hard time selecting our favourites, but here are the three winners.
We’ve contacted all 3 on Twitter to arrange your Pro accounts.
The honorable mention award goes to jonguntrip for his humorous yet cheeky message. Better luck next time Jon …
Sorry to those of you that didn’t win – We’ll look at running more competitions in future, so stay tuned to the blog, Twitter and our Facebook Fan page for future announcements.
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Zamzar is 3 today and we have gifts …
Mazel Tov ! Zamzar is celebrating its third birthday today
We’ve come from humble beginnings – here is what the very first edition of the service looked like:
We’ve come a long way since then, and now handle tens of thousands of conversions every day. We wanted to say a big THANK YOU to you guys – all the people who use our services, and to celebrate …
We’re giving away 3 professional accounts to the Zamzar service for 1 year !
To enter the competition to win a pro account just send out a tweet on Twitter to complete the following sentence: “I ♥ http://www.zamzar.com because …”
Go for something funny / original / amusing and we’ll pick our 3 favourite tweets and list the winners here on the blog early next week.
Happy Tweeting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert MS Project (mpp) files to pdf, jpg, xls and more
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Zamzar now supports the ability to convert Microsoft Project files into a variety of different formats. MS Project is a popular project management application introduced by Microsoft way back in 1984 to, er closely track and monitor people and projects. Sound familiar ?
Whilst MS Project has proved useful for various project managementy-tasks such as tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads it uses a proprietary .mpp file format to save project management files to. This can make it difficult to share files with co-workers who don’t happen to have MS Project installed themselves. We’ve fixed this problem by allowing you convert these files into PDF or any of the following image formats:
- bmp – Windows bitmap
- gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- tiff – Tagged image file format
- xls – Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
So for you all the project managers out there we hope this gives you an easy way of sharing project plans with colleagues without asking them to first perform a mammoth install of Microsoft Project !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team
Convert csv to xlsx, ods to xlsx, wks to xlsx, xls to xlsx
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We’re broadening our support for Microsoft Office formats, and you can now use Zamzar to convert any of the following formats into Microsoft’s .xlsx format – an increasingly popular spreadsheet format introduced in MS Office 2007:
- csv – Comma Separated Values
- ods – OpenDocument spreadsheet
- wks – Microsoft Works Spreadsheet
- xls – Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
We hope this conversion will be useful to those of you who receive documents in these formats from colleagues and friends who need them returned in the .xlsx format.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team
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