to HUS just to save space at your harddrive?

Thank you all!

My friend uses jef and I can use most any, but my dealer recommended vp3 for my Viking Diamond. Most aren't offered in vp3 so I use hus or vip. Dst files seem never to have proper colors (red skin, green clothes, etc) I have 4D program and can convert many files at one time and often convert for my friend when she can't get jef and only pes.
I also have LOTS of trouble with coruppted pes files, so I try to avoid them, but lots of freebies only come in pes. I have to use a Wilcom or Tajima program to open them and convert them. They cause a real problem for me...don't know why 4d says they are corupt when Wilcom can read them? Linda

I wouldn't. You cannot go by the color printouts in HUS, and not all digitizers give a color chart.

don't know much about this. but the other day i downloaded a pes desuign and as i opened it was in 1 color, so I DL it aagain in hus format and this time all the colors were okay. strange isn't it?

You really should not convert from one format to another more than once and not only because of the different colour palettes, but because of the stitching.

When digitising you make a design file (Husqvarna software has .can, Embird as .eof), which is then compilated to an embroidery file. The design files have all the digitising information, the various embroidery files are instruction for the movements your machine has to make and that differs from one brand to another, that's why files differ in size. All the different formats are compiled from the design file (if the digitiser does it right) and not converted from one embroidery format to the other as vital information for some formats may get lost in the process or may just not be there in the first place. In Embird2010 you can compile to different formats in one go, in 3D only one at a time.

You can do a test: convert pes to hus and then back to pes. Sometimes it will turn out well and the stitching in both the first and the last file is exactly the same, but sometimes it's less than accurate might even be horrible as I found out in the past.

I would not convert pes to hus , colors in hus are alot less than they are in pes,
so the colors will be strange with many poor subsitutes in coloring. Of course
you can choose your own color of thread, but many of us like to see it look nice / normal
coloring on the computer screen and on the embroidery machines.

VIP format is small in size and has good colors.
Jef and XXX are also smaller than pes.

Also I would not waste time converting files that you already have, but try download
a few files in all formats and compare the colors, and then choose a format in smaller
size to download. I have been downloading VIP

If you still wanted to convert pes to something smaller,

Try convert pes to vip
Try convert pes to jef

And compare the results