Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GPD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert GPD to another file type
To convert GPD Profiles to another format, you need Microsoft Windows or other System software.
Convert a file to GPD
To convert other file formats to the "Driver Configuration File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Windows or a similar tool.
About GPD files
The .GPD format has several completely different uses, making it confusing to handle. Most often, it is a Generic Printer Description used by Microsoft Windows Unidrv to define the features of a specific printer. These files are plain text scripts containing hardware parameters. Another very common use is the Xbox 360 Gamer Profile, which stores achievements and avatar data in the proprietary XDBF (Xbox Database Format) container. You may also encounter .GPD files generated by MELAG medical sterilizers for process logging, by NVIDIA Nsight Graphics for GPU profiling, or even as Chinese government procurement tender files. Converting these files with standard online tools is highly problematic because the extension is shared by plain text files, proprietary binary databases, and renamed archives. For example, Xbox profiles are hashed and signed, meaning any unauthorized modification corrupts them. MELAG logs are closed data records requiring official viewer software. Chinese tender files are actually hidden ZIP archives. Our platform will analyze the internal file signature. If it detects a text-based Unidrv script or an embedded archive, you can extract the contents or convert the readable data to TXT, PDF, or ZIP without needing specialized software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GPD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert GPD file to MGD, CFS, JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO or CUR, you can use Microsoft Windows or similar software from the "Printer Configuration & Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to GPD, try Microsoft Windows or another comparable tool in the "Printer Configuration & Data Storage" category.
The GPD Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our GPD converter.