HMK Converter

Extract text from design projects (HMK)


Drop or upload your .HMK file
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How to extract text from your HMK file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HMK file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert HMK to another file type

To convert HMK projects to another format, you need Hallmark Card Studio or other Page Layout software.

Convert a file to HMK

To convert other file formats to the "Card Design Project File" file type, you need software like Hallmark Card Studio or a similar tool.


About HMK files

The .HMK file extension is primarily a proprietary project file created by Hallmark Card Studio or Nova Development Print Artist. These files contain greeting card designs, calendars, scrapbooks, and other desktop publishing layouts. Internally, many of these files use the Microsoft Compound object format to store embedded raster images, vector shapes, and formatted text. There is also a secondary use case as an engineering design project file for Hongye AEC Software. The main disadvantage of the .HMK format is that it is highly proprietary. You cannot open these files in standard web browsers, image viewers, or common design software like Adobe Illustrator. Sharing an .HMK file with family or colleagues is frustrating because the recipient must have the specific desktop software installed to view the card. Furthermore, these desktop applications often require paid licenses and are restricted to specific Windows operating systems. To share your designs online or print them professionally, you must convert the .HMK file to standard formats like PDF, JPG, or PNG. However, because this is a closed project format, standard online converters usually fail to interpret the complex page layouts and text positioning. Typically, only the original desktop software can properly render and export the final design. While we cannot reconstruct the entire proprietary layout without the original rendering engine, our analysis can inspect the Microsoft Compound structure to detect supported embedded images or text elements, making partial recovery or viewing possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your HMK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted JPG, CSPROJ, ACD and NPF files.


FAQ

If you want to convert HMK file to INDD, QXP, PUB, PMD, PM6, PM7, PM8, PM9, PM10, PM11, OMP or P65, you can use Hallmark Card Studio or similar software from the "Greeting Card Project File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MDI, PUB, PDP, PM4, P65, COMIC, WEBTEMPLATE, PMD, SPUB, INDD, PM5 or QXP files to HMK, try Hallmark Card Studio or another comparable tool in the "Greeting Card Project File" category.



The HMK 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 HMK converter.