EZPZ FileQuestions that come up when you work with files and documents. Less about which button to press, more about how to decide.
The international office at your university emails an application form. HR shares the new leave policy. A notice from your district office comes with an attachment. All of them end in .hwp or .hwpx, and your laptop has no idea what to do with them.
AshtonKeep reading →You need an HWPX file as a PDF, to print it, attach it to an email or just read it. Word refuses to open it, and every converter you find wants you to upload the file first.
AshtonKeep reading →A file ending in .hwp arrived from Korea. Double-clicking it does nothing, or your computer asks which app to use and none of them work. Here is what the file is, and the quickest way to get at what is inside.
AshtonKeep reading →The printer or designer sent an .ai and it opens blank, shows a "saved without PDF content" notice, or loses its fonts and photos. It is almost always one of five causes, and what you see on screen tells you which.
AshtonKeep reading →A client or your boss wants the file back as .ai, and you do not have Illustrator. We ranked 7 tools by one test: open an .ai, edit it, save it back as AI. Plus price, install, sign-up and where your file goes. The first one is ours, and we say so.
AshtonKeep reading →You need to change the names on a wedding card PSD or the number on a shop banner, and you do not have Photoshop. We ranked 8 options by whether they are free, whether you must install or sign up, whether they save back to PSD, and where your file goes. The first one is ours, and we say so.
AshtonKeep reading →A designer sends you a logo or a flex banner as an .ai file. You need a PDF for the printer, a picture for WhatsApp, or one changed phone number, and there is no Illustrator on your computer. Our browser editor opens AI files with their layers intact and saves them back as AI, SVG or PDF.
AshtonKeep reading →A designer sends you a .psd and one price needs changing, but there is no Photoshop on your computer. For that moment we built an editor that opens a PSD in the browser with its layers intact and saves it back as PSD.
AshtonKeep reading →Someone wants "that email as a PDF". All you have is a .eml file, maybe forwarded by a colleague or downloaded from Gmail, and no Outlook to open it with. Here is the quick way, the built-in ways, and what a PDF of an email does and does not keep.
AshtonKeep reading →A .jtd attachment arrives from Japan and nothing on your computer will open it. The file comes from Ichitaro, a Japanese word processor.
AshtonKeep reading →A .xdw file arrives from an office in Japan and Acrobat will not open it. It looks as if it ought to be a PDF, but it is a DocuWorks document.
AshtonKeep reading →A Korean school, office or university sent you an .hwp file and wants it back filled in. We compared eight free options by whether they can edit it, whether they can save it back as HWP, and where your file ends up.
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