Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ZPF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ZPF to another file type
To convert ZPF data files to another format, you need Zumtobel Software or other Data software.
Convert a file to ZPF
To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Data Archive" file type, you need software like Zumtobel Software or a similar tool.
About ZPF files
A .ZPF file most commonly functions as a Zumtobel Product File, which stores specialized lighting product data used by architects and designers in Thorn Lighting or Zumtobel Group software. Alternatively, the .ZPF extension acts as an Ocarina of Time Randomizer patch file used to modify Nintendo 64 game data, or as a structural steel project archive created by legacy AceCad StruCad software. Some 3D modeling users may also encounter it as a preference file for Form•Z. The primary disadvantage of the .ZPF format is extreme fragmentation. Because multiple unrelated applications use the exact same extension, standard operating systems cannot reliably assign a default program. A Zumtobel lighting file relies on a standard XML structure, a StruCad project is actually a renamed ZIP archive, and a Zelda patch is a proprietary zlib compressed binary. You cannot simply double-click these files on a clean Windows or macOS installation and expect them to open, and they are completely unsupported by mobile browsers. Converting .ZPF files requires identifying their true internal structure. For lighting data, parsing the internal XML text into a CSV or JSON file is the best approach to read technical specifications without purchasing specialized architectural software. For StruCad files, conversion is impossible until you extract the internal DWG or DXF CAD files from the archive. Game patches are heavily locked down and cannot be converted; they must be applied directly to a ROM using a specific patcher. Standard online converters fail to process .ZPF files because they lack the ability to distinguish between these radically different formats. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can inspect the file headers, extract embedded archive data, and reveal raw text. If our analysis detects an underlying XML or ZIP structure, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ZPF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ZPF file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use Zumtobel Software or similar software from the "Lighting Data & Game Patch" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to ZPF, try Zumtobel Software or another comparable tool in the "Lighting Data & Game Patch" category.
The ZPF 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 ZPF converter.