Extract text from Freelance Graphics files (PRZ)
To convert PRZ project archives to another format, you need Lotus Freelance Graphics or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Presentation / Project Archive" file type, you need software like Lotus Freelance Graphics or a similar tool.
The .PRZ file format is most commonly associated with Lotus Freelance Graphics, a discontinued presentation software suite developed by IBM. In this context, it stores legacy slide layouts, text, and graphical elements. Another major use case is as an industrial drive project archive for CTSoft by Control Techniques, or as a sliced 3D model file for Phrozen 3D printers.
The primary disadvantage of Lotus .PRZ files is their severe obsolescence. The format is proprietary, undocumented, and no longer supported by modern web browsers, Microsoft PowerPoint, or Google Slides. Users are essentially locked out of their historical data unless they run extremely outdated software on legacy operating systems. Industrial and 3D printing .PRZ files are also highly specialized and useless outside of their native applications.
Ideally, users want to convert Lotus .PRZ files to PPTX or PDF to recover old presentations, or extract CTSoft project archives into accessible folders.
Because this file format is proprietary and heavily fragmented across different industries, it is notoriously difficult to open or convert. Standard online converters fail to process them because they lack the specific legacy rendering engines. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying structure - such as the standard ZIP compression used by industrial .PRZ archives - viewing the internal files or extracting the contents may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PRZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PRE, STL, ZIP, LWP, RAR, MAT, INDD, GRA, MS14 and MS8 files.
If you want to convert PRZ file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use Lotus Freelance Graphics or similar software from the "Legacy Presentation or Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to PRZ, try Lotus Freelance Graphics or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Presentation or Archive" category.
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 PRZ converter.