Convert BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF to 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 doc to docx, pdf to docx
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We’re always looking to support more formats and we have had a number of requests from you guys to look at supporting conversions into Microsoft’s .docx format – an increasingly popular document format introduced in MS Office 2007.
We’re pleased to say you can now use Zamzar to convert these formats into docx :
- doc – Microsoft Word Document
- pdf – Portable Document Format
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 .docx format.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team
Convert PDF files to eBook formats (epub, fb2, lit, lrf, mobi, oeb, pdb, pml, rb, tcr)
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We’ve got a great new addition to our conversions here at Zamzar. You can now convert your PDF files into a whole plethora of eBook formats.
An eBook (short for electronic book, a.k.a. digital book, ebook, and eBook) is an electronic text version of a conventional printed book. Usually read on dedicated hardware devices known as e-Readers or eBook devices (Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad), PC’s and some phones can also be used to read eBooks. With the advent of these eBook readers a number of specialised eBook file formats, have appeared on the scene.
We have had a number of request from you guys to allow conversion of PDF files into these various eBook formats and we’re pleased to say this is now possible.
Convert your PDF files into:
- epub – Open eBook File
- fb2 – FictionBook 2.0 File
- lit – Microsoft eBook File
- lrf – Sony Portable Reader File
- mobi – Mobipocket eBook
- oeb – Open eBook File
- pdb – Palm Media eBook file
- pml – eBook file
- rb – RocketEdition eBook file
- tcr – Psion eBook file
Why not head over to Zamzar to try converting your PDF files into eBooks now ?
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 AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPG, WMV files to WebM
Filed under: Conversions, Zamzar news | Tags: 3g2, 3gp, asf, avi, flv, gvi, m4v, mod, mov, mp4, mpg, rm, rmvb, vob, vp8, webm, wmv
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We love supporting new file formats and when Google announced an initiative for a free and open video format we wanted to jump on board to help adoption.
The team that created WebM have been pioneers in video codec development for over a decade. WebM delivers high quality video while efficiently adapting to the varying processing and bandwidth conditions found on today’s broad range of web-connected devices. WebM’s efficient bandwidth usage will mean lower serving costs for content publishers and high quality video for end-users.
We are therefore very pleased to announce that Zamzar now supports conversion of all of our video formats into the new WebM format.
You can now convert all of the following video formats into the new WebM (Web Media) format:
- 3g2 – 3GPP2 Multimedia File
- 3gp – 3GPP Multimedia File
- asf – Advanced Streaming Format (Microsoft Corporation)
- avi – Windows video file
- flv – Flash Video
- gvi – Google video file
- m4v – MPEG-4 Video File
- mod – Hard disk camera movie
- mov – Apple QuickTime Movie
- mp4 – MPEG-4 Video File
- mpg – Moving Picture Experts Group File
- rm – RealMedia Streaming Media
- rmvb – RealVideo Variable Bit Rate File
- vob – DVD Video Movie File
- wmv – Windows Media File (Microsoft Corporation)
Why not head over to Zamzar to try these out now ?
Should anyone else have any suggestions for formats we should consider feel free to contact us at support (at) Zamzar.com.
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert eBook formats at Zamzar – free and online
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: cbc, cbr, cbz, chm, convert eBook, eBook, epub, fb2, ipad, kindle, lit, lrf, mobi, oeb, pdb, pdf, pml, rb, tcr, txt
Leave a Comment All eBook conversions are now back and working – sorry for the temporary outage.
Update [05/05/2010 19:09 GMT]:
We’ve had teething problems with some of our eBook conversions, so have had to temporarily stop them. They should be back soon though – we’ll post here when they are.
Calling all bookworms … we love to support new conversion types at Zamzar and we’re excited to announce a major new addition – eBooks.
There are a huge number of eBook formats and Zamzar now gives you a one stop shop to convert between them – all online and all for free.
An eBook (short for electronic book, a.k.a. digital book, ebook, and eBook) is an electronic text version of a conventional printed book. Usually read on dedicated hardware devices known as e-Readers or eBook devices (Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad), PC’s and some phones can also be used to read eBooks. With the advent of these eBook readers most developed their own specialised eBook file format, fragmenting the eBook market.
As part of our ongoing mission to bring order to your filesystem, Zamzar is aiming to make it as easy as possible for you to convert between all these different eBook file types.
You can now convert a whole variety of eBook formats and we plan to offer more in the coming weeks:
- cbz – Comic Book ZIP Archive
- cbr – Comic Book RAR Archive
- cbc – eBook format
- chm – Compiled HTML Help File
- epub – Open eBook File
- fb2 – FictionBook 2.0 File
- oeb – Open eBook File
- lit – Microsoft eBook File
- lrf – Sony Portable Reader File
- mobi – Mobipocket eBook
- pdb – Palm Media eBook file
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- pml – eBook file
- rb – RocketEdition eBook file
- tcr – Psion eBook file
- txt – Text Document
Why not head over to Zamzar to try converting your eBooks now ?
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Improved Conversion Quality – PDF to JPG, PDF to BMP
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: convert pdf, pdf conversion, pdf to gif, pdf to jpg, pdf to png, Zamzar
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We are always striving to improve the quality of our conversions here at Zamzar. Today we’re pleased to announce that as part of this effort we have rolled out a new way of converting PDF to image formats.
These improvements will result in …
- Less failures
- Greater conversion clarity
- Provide the opportunity to either download a zip file containing all of the images from the converted PDF document or just individual images
Why not head over to Zamzar to try these out now ?
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert EMF files to BMP, GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG, TIFF and more
Filed under: Zamzar news | Tags: convert EMF, convert emf to jpg, emf to jpg, Windows Enhanced Metafile, Zamzar
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We’re always happy when you guys email us requesting new conversion types – so hat tip to David G. He requested that we look into supporting EMF files to other image formats. I’m pleased to say that our team of chameleons looked into this and made it happen !
Should anyone else have any suggestions for formats we should consider feel free to contact us at support (at) Zamzar.com.
You can now convert EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile) into any of the following formats:
- bmp – Windows bitmap
- gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
- ico – Windows Icon
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- pcx – PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- ps – Postscript document
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- tga – Truevision Targa Graphic
- thumbnail – Thumbnail image
- tiff – Tagged image file format
- wbmp – Wireless Bitmap File Format
Why not head over to Zamzar to try these out now ?
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Zamzar nominated for HSBC 2010 European Business Awards
Filed under: Zamzar news | Tags: european business awards, hsbc, Zamzar
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We’re delighted to announce that Zamzar has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 European Business Awards sponsored by HSBC.
The European Business Awards recognises and promotes excellence, best practice and innovation in the European business community. The Awards uncover and promote examples of individuals, and organisations that have achieved outstanding results setting them apart as the leading companies, business leaders and entrepreneurs in Europe.
Awards mean nothing without you guys though – We want to say a huge thanks to all of you who use Zamzar and have supported us since we first launched back in October 2006. We recognise that there’s still room to improve though. and we have a lot of great new features and conversions in the pipeline for you – stay tuned for further updates 
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert PDF to DOC – better quality conversions
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: chuck norris, convert pdf to doc, pdf doc converter, pdf to doc, pdf to doc freeware, pdf to doc online, pdf to Word, Zamzar
Comments (2) 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.
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