How close is the conversion?

Close enough to print for most documents, and not perfect for any of them. Rather than describe that, we measure it. We keep a corpus of real Publisher files whose authors also exported the same file from Publisher itself, and compare our output against theirs.

The second number is a strict pixel comparison after aligning the pages, on a corpus picked for being difficult — newsletters with linked columns, twenty-year-old files, documents whose fonts no longer exist. It is the number we work to raise, and as far as we can tell we are the only Publisher converter that publishes one at all. The honest answer for your files is to convert one: upload a single file on the converter and it downloads free, no card — or upload a batch and look through the free page-1 preview of every file before deciding whether to pay for the rest.

What conversion loses

• Small caps are dropped, and condensed or expanded type comes out at its normal width.
• WordArt headings are rebuilt with their original curve, colour and font, but their outlines, shadows and gradient fills are not — so compare those headings with the original.
• Substituted fonts are rarely the same width, so lines re-wrap and headings can overflow.
• Publisher 97 and 98 files keep their pictures now, but their text still lands a few points out of place, with different line spacing than the original.

We would rather you read this before paying than find it afterwards. If a document depends on any of it, the free preview will show you.