Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PSET file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PSET to another file type
To convert PSET presets to another format, you need AutoCAD Civil 3D or other Settings software.
Convert a file to PSET
To convert other file formats to the "Print Configuration File" file type, you need software like AutoCAD Civil 3D or a similar tool.
About PSET files
A .pset file functions primarily as a Drawing Print Set in CAD ecosystems or as an XML-based print settings preset in macOS environments. To open a CAD print set, you typically need professional software like AutoCAD Civil 3D or OpenRoads Designer. macOS presets open natively via Apple macOS print dialogues or Adobe Acrobat Pro. These proprietary files create immediate workflow bottlenecks. CAD .pset files require an expensive, heavy software subscription just to access basic plotting instructions, while macOS settings lack cross-platform compatibility. The best conversion targets depend entirely on the file origin. Extract CAD print sets to ZIP or export the drawing layouts to PDF to share them globally without CAD software. For macOS presets, convert the file to XML or TXT to safely read the raw configuration data. This file format is notoriously difficult to process because multiple software vendors use the exact same extension for entirely different internal architectures. As a result, standard online converters fail and crash. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. Just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Our system inspects the file header to determine if it is a compressed archive or text data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PSET file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PSET file to DLL, SO, DYLIB, BUNDLE, PLUGIN, XPI, CRX, SAFARIEXTZ, APPEX, KEXT, SYS or DRV, you can use AutoCAD Civil 3D or similar software from the "Print Configuration Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert LV2, DYLIB, VST, AAX, DRV, TDE, LADSPA, BUNDLE, AU, DLL, RTAS or SO files to PSET, try AutoCAD Civil 3D or another comparable tool in the "Print Configuration Storage" category.
The PSET 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 PSET converter.