Convert your Publisher files to PDF — and see which ones may need editing.
Drop in your .pub files. Get back a PDF for each one, and a report telling you, file by file, what came through and what didn't. Nothing to install. Works on a Mac, a Chromebook, anything with a browser.
Microsoft 365 stops opening .pub files on 1 October 2026. What that means for your files →
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No card, no account. Upload a single .pub and download the real PDF, so you can see the result before you pay for a batch.
Nobody checks every PDF.
That's the real problem with converting an archive. A converter hands back a pile of files and says "done". The thumbnails look fine. Six months later someone needs page 4 of the 2014 newsletter and it isn't there.
So every batch comes back with a report. Per file, in plain language: what came out wrong, what's worth checking, and what looks fine. You get the list of files that need a person, instead of finding them one at a time for the next two years.
- ■ Came out wrongA page rendered empty, text duplicated across columns, or nothing rendered. These are the ones to open first.
- ▲ Worth checkingUsually a font, or a heading whose shape was lost, or characters that could not be decoded. Common rather than alarming.
- ● Nothing looks wrongNo empty pages, and every font matched exactly.
Report · 5 files
5 worth checking
No match for Days, JuneBug, JungleFever — text in those faces will not look like the original.
No match for Black Rose, Desyrel — text in those faces will not look like the original.
This file uses WordArt, which is not converted at all: any arched or shaped heading is missing from the output entirely, not restyled. Those headings need re-creating by hand.
Harlow Solid Italic → Oleo Script Swash Caps, Segoe Print → Patrick Hand. Substitutes are rarely the same width, so lines re-wrap and headings can overflow their frame.
This file uses WordArt, which is not converted at all: any arched or shaped heading is missing from the output entirely, not restyled. Those headings need re-creating by hand.
This example report was made from five public Microsoft template flyers. Templates use decorative fonts and WordArt that can't be licensed for redistribution, so they flag more heavily than ordinary newsletters do.
What conversion loses
The known weak spots, so you know what to expect when you open the files.
- Small caps are dropped, and condensed or expanded type comes out at its normal width.
- WordArt is not converted at all — those headings will be missing.
- Substituted fonts are rarely the same width, so lines re-wrap and headings can overflow.
- Publisher 97 and 98 files convert poorly: their images are dropped and text lands out of place.
Pricing
One file
Free
Up to 25 files
$9
Up to 200 files
$29
One payment, no account, no subscription. Refund by replying to the receipt within 7 days. Files are deleted 2 hours after a small batch finishes, 12 hours after a large one, and 7 days once paid.
Fonts
A .pub file names its fonts but doesn't contain them. We install every font we can legally redistribute — 2,995 families. Publisher's own decorative fonts can't be licensed to us, so those get the closest match, and the report says which.
If you still have the machine that made the files, you can send us those fonts and we'll convert again with the real letterforms.
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