Convert Microsoft Publisher to PDF, DOC, RTF and More

Convert Microsoft Publisher to PDF
(.pub to .pdf, .doc and many more)
Sitting on a PC in the darkened room with no windows of our studio is Microsoft Publisher. I've never really understood what it was for - until recently. It exists to annoy me.

I have a number of clients who send their layouts in .pub format to give us an idea of what they want. The layout contains all the text we need (pre-formatted they cry! that'll save us time!). Not so.

It would be much more convenient and time-efficent if they sent the text in Word format and a sketch by fax. But that's the blight on designers of desktop publishing today.

Anyway, back to my copy of Publisher. It sits on my solitary PC with a purpose (other than to annoy). It exits only to open .pub layouts sent by my clients so that I can convert them to some sort of readable format. That's all it has to do. Nothing else. Not a thing.

Convert Microsoft Publisher to PDF
Bad experiences with Publisher?
The funny (!) thing is, I have never, ever been able to open a .pub file using Microsoft Publisher. It always complains that the document I am impertinently trying to open was created in a different version - so obviously it's not even going to attempt to open it. I mean, even Microsoft Word has the decency to open files created with other versions of itself. (Apart from the relatively new .docx files - don't even get me started on those).

So, to cut a long rant short, I had to find a solution, beyond constantly asking my clients to resend the files in Word format, rich text format or, in fact, anything other than Publisher. Recently I found an excellent online solution that enabled me to convert Microsoft Publisher to PDF - and it's free! That's the dream.

If you visit Zamzar.com you'll find an extremely useful website which offers free file conversion for a plethora of file types, including Microsoft Publisher. You'll be able to upload a .PUB file and they will e-mail you the converted .PDF, .DOC, .RTF etc file you requested. I've tried it on a few .PUB files and had no failures as yet. This is the kind of website that deserves to be found.

Convert Microsoft Publisher to PDF
No such thing as a free lunch
Their free service is effectively their basic service level. If you have lots of files to convert , or large file sizes, you can sign up to an appropriate service level - but for the occasion free file conversion it's the new shing star in my bookmarks (or 'favourites' if you don't know what I'm talking about - it might be my accent. Sorry.). The only downside of visiting Zamzar that I experienced were the pop-under adverts that kept appearing. It was worth the hassle though.

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