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Open Publisher files without Publisher
Open a Microsoft Publisher file without Publisher: see every page as it was laid out, change the text right on the page, then save it as PDF, as a Word document you can keep editing, or as pictures — one file or a whole folder of them. All of it runs in your browser.
No server processing
No account
No daily limits
What it does
ReadsPUB — Microsoft Publisher 98, 2000, 2002, 2003 to 2021 and Microsoft 365
WritesPDF — through the print dialog, the text stays text
Word (.docx) — the same pages, the text editable
JPG — a picture of each page
PNG — a sharper, larger picture of each page
TXT — all the words, without the layout
Word (.docx) — the same pages, the text editable
JPG — a picture of each page
PNG — a sharper, larger picture of each page
TXT — all the words, without the layout
Operationssee every page as laid out, change the text on the page, open a whole folder of .pub at once, save one or all of them as PDF, turn them into Word documents to keep editing, save the pages as JPG or PNG, take out the text
Fix a file
Open a file
Conversions and clean-up
Why it gets the details right
Pages as laid outText frames with their fonts, columns and text that runs on into the next frame; pictures, clip art, shapes, tables, borders — placed where Publisher put them.
Old files tooPublications saved by Publisher 98, 2000 and 2002 open as well as the ones from 2003 to Microsoft 365.
A folder at onceYears of newsletters, flyers and certificates: drop the folder and keep them all as PDF.