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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.About the extension

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; some fonts, text effects and exact spacing do not — Publisher’s format was never published, and the importer is reverse-engineered.

The page says "best effort" because it is: check the PDF against what you remember before sending it on.

Questions

Why does the layout look slightly off?

Fonts the file used are replaced by the server’s, and some Publisher effects have no equivalent. For a faithful copy you still need Publisher — until 1 October 2026.

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.