PUB to PNG — Publisher pages as sharp images
Save every page of a Microsoft Publisher .pub file as a PNG image, in your browser and without Publisher. Text and lines stay crisp.
About this conversion
PNG keeps every edge as it was drawn: small print, thin rules and the corners of shapes stay crisp, where JPG would blur them slightly. That makes it the better picture of a page that is mostly text and graphics — a certificate, a sign, a price list. Each page is drawn as Publisher laid it out and saved at 150 dots per inch; several pages come as a zip, one image per page.
Just want to look inside it?
The same tool without converting anything: open the file and read it.
The same file, other ways
The publication stays open after it is read, so the format is picked at the end: the same .pub can leave here as PDF, Word (.docx), JPG or TXT. Drop a whole folder and every publication in it is listed — save just the one on screen, or all of them at once as one PDF or one zip of pictures.
Questions
- The files are large.
- PNG keeps every edge exact, which costs some size. JPG under Save as is usually smaller, most of all for pages with photos.
- Why does a font look different from the original?
- Publisher files do not carry their fonts — they only name them, and the computer that opens the file has to have them. Most come with Microsoft Office. A font this computer does not have is replaced with the closest one, here, in the PDF and in the pictures alike, so a line can break in a different place; the page lists the missing fonts after it opens the file. Installing them and opening the file again brings the look closer to the original.
- Is the file uploaded?
- No. The images are drawn by this page on your own computer.