# Zamzar for file conversion

- Message from Mike Franks (14 Apr 2007):

This site claims to do conversion of document, image, music and video formats, for free. I haven’t tried it but someone on another (non-<span class="caps">UCLA</span>) list, said he had used it for months converting docs between .doc and .pdf and “never had problems with loss of formatting.” It sounded too good to be true, just for <span class="caps">PDF</span> conversions, but the website says video, audio and image formats can be converted as well. Let me know if you try it out. Thanks,

[http://zamzar.com/](http://zamzar.com/)

- Response from Huan Wang (18 Apr 2007):

I tried converting <span class="caps">DOC</span> to <span class="caps">PDF</span>, <span class="caps">WMV</span> to <span class="caps">MOV</span>, and <span class="caps">GIF</span> to <span class="caps">JPG</span>. All seemed to work well. Files are uploaded on-line (it is also OK to upload an <span class="caps">URL</span> to the file), and links to the converted file are sent to the requester via e-mail. When the requester gets the email depends on the file size and whether the server is busy or not. I tried it this morning, and it took me 2-5 mins to get the email per request. Multiple files can be done at a time as a batch. Files uploaded can be up to 100MB in size per request. Below is the list of the file types they can convert from and to:

[http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php](http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php)