Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HMK file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HMK to another file type
To convert your HMK file 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 "Desktop Publishing Project" file type, you need software like Hallmark Card Studio or a similar tool.
About HMK files
The .HMK file extension is most commonly associated with Hallmark Card Studio, a desktop publishing application used to design greeting cards, scrapbooks, and stationery. These files are proprietary project files, meaning they act as a recipe containing layout instructions, text data, and references to internal clip art libraries rather than a standalone image. A common issue users face is that .HMK files are not standard image files (like JPG or PNG); they cannot be opened by web browsers, mobile phones, or standard photo viewers. Furthermore, because the file often references graphical assets installed with the original software, opening an older .HMK file without the exact version of Hallmark Card Studio installed can result in missing images or broken layouts. A less common but distinct variation is used by Hongye AEC software for engineering designs. To share or archive these designs, the most practical workflow is opening the project in the original software and "printing" it to a universal format like PDF or exporting it as a raster image.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HMK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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" 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" 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.