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Open a PUB file without Publisher

Drop the .pub here and its pages appear as Publisher laid them out — on Windows without Office, on a Mac, on a Chromebook. Change the text if it needs it, then keep it as PDF, or as a Word document to go on editing.

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What a .pub file is

A .pub is a Microsoft Publisher publication: a newsletter, flyer, brochure, card, calendar or certificate, saved with every frame, picture and font choice in Publisher’s own format. Word cannot open it, and neither can any program Microsoft ships apart from Publisher itself.

That used to mean asking someone with Office. Now Microsoft has retired Publisher — since October 2026 it is no longer part of Microsoft 365 — and Macs never had it at all, so years of school newsletters, parish bulletins and shop flyers sit in files that will not open. Here the file is read in the page and every page drawn — text frames with their fonts and columns, pictures and clip art, tables and borders — and you can save one publication or a whole folder of them as PDF.

What you can do here

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.

Convert PUB to something else

PUB→PDFPUB→WordPUB→JPGPUB→PNG

Questions

Can I edit it?
The text, yes: “Edit text” makes the text boxes and table cells editable right on the page, and the PDF, Word and pictures are saved with the changes. Fonts, colours and the layout stay as they are; for those, “Word (.docx)” under Save as gives a Word document with the same pages, every text frame a text box you can format.
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.
Which Publisher versions open?
Files from Publisher 98, 2000 and 2002, and everything from 2003 to Microsoft 365.
Is the file uploaded?
No. It is read by this page on your own computer and is not sent anywhere.