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Introducing new file format resources
Filed under: Announcements, News | Tags: file extensions, file formats, format info
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We’ve long realised here at Zamzar that file formats can be a confusing business – it’s why we created an easy tool to convert between them in the first place. There are literally hundred’s of different formats around for all sorts of different programs. Heck, you can even get file formats for your sewing machine !
We thought it would be helpful to start providing more detailed information about the various file formats that Zamzar supports for conversion to help give you a better idea of how you can use them, and in what programs they are supported.
So from today we’ll be hotlinking to individual file format information pages on our conversion types page as well as providing a dedicated file formats information page. Links will go through to dedicated pages giving background information on the file format, what programs support it and useful links for it. They will look like the one below:
We’d love feedback from you on what information would be useful for you on these pages, and on any improvements you’d like to see so that we can make them even better. Please let us know in the comments below, on Twitter or Facebook !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Sharing a file – introducing FilePigeon
Filed under: Announcements | Tags: FilePigeon, send file, send large file, Share file, share large file, Zamzar
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We’re delighted to announce a new web service from the creators of Zamzar – FilePigeon gives you a super simple way of sharing any file with friends and colleagues without needing to worry about email limits on attachments.
Are you fed up with:
- Not having a simple way of sharing files with friends & colleagues ?
- Unhelpful email limits on file attachments ? (Yahoo, AOL and GMail all limit you to just 25 MB)
- Waiting around for other file sending services who delay file downloads ?
- Annoying adverts on web pages which host your files for colleagues ?
Well FilePigeon is the answer ! It’s is a really simple way to send large files – no signup is needed (it’s free !), so you can start using it straight away. Uploaded files are hosted on our secure servers and a file download link is sent via email to whoever you want to share your files with. You can also share the link on FaceBook and Twitter.
FilePigeon gives you:
- A free file sharing service without the need to register
- No ads for any users
- Fast uploads & downloads
- Full drag & drop support for all users
- Download files as many times as you want (no restrictions !)
- Send files up to 1GB in size with an account
- Send files securely (over SSL) with a business account
- Oodles of storage and an inbox to manage files with an account
Go try out FilePigeon today ! We’d love to hear what you think.
Happy sending,
The Zamzar (FilePigeon) Team.
Convert iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) files to MS Office – online and free
Filed under: Announcements, News | Tags: Apple, apple iWork, convert iWork, convert iWork to Office, iwork, keynote, Mac, numbers, pages
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Zamzar now supports conversion of Apple iWork (Pages, KeyNote and Numbers) files into a variety of other useful formats including Microsoft Office formats.
We’re really excited about these new conversions – as the number of Mac users continues to grow rapidly more and more people are using iWork to generate and share documents, presentations and spreadsheets, yet not everyone can open them … until now.
You can use Zamzar to upload any Pages (word processing doc), KeyNote (presentation) or Numbers (spreadsheet) and convert them to any one of the following formats:
Pages (.pages) to:
- doc – Microsoft Word Document
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- rtf – Rich Text Format
- txt – Text document
KeyNote (.key) to:
- ppt – Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation
Numbers (.numbers) to:
- csv – Comma Separated Values
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- xls – Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
iWork is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, and Zamzar supports conversion for all versions of iWork from iWork ’05 right through to the very latest release (currently iWork ’09).
Useful tip: Files created by iWork before the iWork ’09 release are saved into directories. As you cannot upload directories to Zamzar, to convert these files make sure you compress them into a .zip format first so that your directory becomes a .zip file named “someName.pages.zip”, like so:
This is the world’s first support for conversion of iWork files – No other service exists (online or offline) to do this independently from a Mac (even Apple’s iWork.com requires you to own iWork to use it !), and as everything is based in a browser you can peform the conversion on any platform 
We’ll be rolling out support for even more “to” formats for Keynote over the coming weeks.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Enough ! No more pop-under ads
We know that many of you have found the pop-under advertisements that run on Zamzar annoying:
Up until now we’ve been willing to put up with them, as they have provided much needed revenue for the business, and generally speaking if you were determined enough to block them you could.
However, we’ve decided that enough is enough – Ads we’ve seen recently have been obnoxious, distracting, misleading and downright annoying.
We are therefore very pleased to announce that we are removing pop-under ads from Zamzar for all users effective immediately
Say goodbye to this:
Phew !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Convert BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF to WebP
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: bmp to webp, convert webp, gif to webp, jpg to webp, png to webp, webp
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At Zamzar we’re always keen to support newly released file formats and we’re pleased to announce that from today we now support image file conversions both to and from Google’s newly released WebP format.
Google is on a mission to make the web faster – images and photos make up about 65% of the bytes transmitted per web page today, and the new WebP format is an attempt to try and reduce the size of those images – WebP is a method of lossy compression that can be applied to photographic images to make them smaller, without sacrificing too much quality. It offers compression that has shown almost 40% more byte-size efficiency than JPEG for the same quality of image in a large scale study of 900,000 images on the Web. If these images or a portion of these images were held as WebP, bandwidth would be greatly reduced without loss of image quality.
We’re therefore pleased to say you can now use Zamzar to convert these formats both to and from WebP for all of the following formats :
- bmp – Windows bitmap
- emf – Windows Enhanced Metafile
- gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- pcx – PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- tga – Truevision Targa Graphic
- tiff – Tagged image file format
- wbmp – Wireless Bitmap File Format
We hope these conversions will be useful to those of you who want to use the new WebP image technology from Google in your web pages or applications.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team
Convert PS files to BMP, GIF, JPG, PDF, TIFF
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: convert PostScript, convert ps, convert ps to pdf, PostScript, PS to PDF, Zamzar
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A common request we’ve had at Zamzar is to convert PostScript (.ps) files into PDF. We’re pleased to announce that our engineers have now enabled this, and a whole raft of other formats too !
You can now convert .ps files from their native Postscript format into any one of the following formats:
- bmp – Windows bitmap
- gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- thumbnail – Thumbnail image
- tiff – Tagged image file format
Why not head over to Zamzar to try it out now ?
If you have suggestions for any other formats you’d like to see us support just get in touch with us at support@zamzar.com.
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert PDF to Excel (xls) – online and free !
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: convert pdf, convert pdf to Excel, convert pdf to xls, online conversion, pdf to Excel, pdf to xls
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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
Convert MS Project (mpp) files to pdf, jpg, xls and more
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: convert Microsoft Project, convert microsoft project mpp files, convert mpp, convert MS Project, mpp to bmp, mpp to gif, mpp to jpg, mpp to pdf, mpp to tiff, mpp to xls
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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
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: conversion, convert to xlsx, convert xlsx, csv to xlsx, file conversion, ods to xlsx, wks to xlsx, xls to xlsx, Zamzar
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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
Convert doc to jpg, doc to gif, doc to png and more
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: convert doc, convert doc to image, Convert MS Word, Convert Word, doc to gif, doc to image, doc to jpg, doc to png, Microsoft Word, MS Word, Zamzar
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You can now use Zamzar to convert MS Word documents (.doc files) into a variety of different image formats, including jpg, gif and png. This conversion is really useful for situations when you might want to embed graphics or thumbnails of Word documents into a website, or to share the contents of a document with a client in a format that can’t be edited by them.
You can now convert MS Word documents into any of the following formats:
- bmp – Windows bitmap
- gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- pcx – PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- ps – Postscript document
- thumbnail – Thumbnail image
- tiff – Tagged image file format
MS Word doesn’t allow you to save into any of these image formats, so to convert your Word docs, just head on over to Zamzar.
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
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