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Publisher to PDF

The flyer or newsletter you were sent, as a PDF anyone can open.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.Add to Chrome

How to convert Publisher to PDF

  1. Drop the file.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download.

What happens to your file

The .pub file is opened by LibreOffice Draw on Fylane’s servers through its Publisher importer and saved as a PDF page for page. Text, pictures and shapes come through; Publisher’s format was never published and the importer is reverse-engineered, so some effects have no equivalent.

Fonts are the honest part. The report under the result names every face the file asks for and what the PDF actually used: the face itself, a metric twin (Carlito for Calibri, Liberation for Arial, Times and Courier — the same widths, so lines break where Publisher broke them), or a substitute, where the words are right and the line breaks may not be. It also says what it did not measure: text that overflowed its frame, and pictures the file only linked to.

Publisher leaves Microsoft 365 on 1 October 2026. A PDF is the faithful keepsake; Publisher to PNG gives one picture per page; Publisher to Word is lossy and says so.

Questions

What does "layout faithful" in the report mean?

Every face in the file is installed here or has a metric twin, so text measures the same and breaks in the same places. "No" names the faces that were merely substituted — those lines may run longer or shorter.

I have a whole folder of .pub files — what then?

Zip them and use Publisher batch to PDF: every file becomes a PDF, with a report per file, in one download.

Do it once, not on every form

Fixing a file here means downloading it and going back to the form. The Fylane extension does this work inside the form instead, on the file you already have.

And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.

Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.

Filmed from the extension: three upload fields on a job application, filled from one tap.

Add to Chrome — freeWhat it does

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "convert",
    "options": {
      "to": "pdf"
    }
  }'

The same operation, convert — Documents into another document format: Office, text and HTML to PDF by default, or by `to` into docx, odt, rtf, txt, html, xlsx, ods, csv, pptx, odp, md or epub (Markdown and EPUB through pandoc). Images to WebP. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.