PubRescueWhat these documents usually contain
- Tri-fold brochures: a letter-size sheet, landscape, with three panels on each side. The front cover is usually the right-hand panel of page 1, and the inside is page 2.
- Flyers: one page with a big headline, a photo, a few lines of details and contact information, sometimes a coupon or a tear-off strip.
- Menus: long lists of items and prices lined up with tabs, section headings, and often a folded layout like a brochure.
- Price lists, rack cards and postcards: dense small text, tables and logos.
The layout details that matter most here are tabs and alignment (prices must line up), text wrapped around photos, colored panels behind text, and fonts. PubRescue keeps tab stops, wraps text around pictures the way Publisher did and uses metric-compatible fonts, so a price list doesn't shift onto the next line.
How to convert a brochure or flyer
- Upload the .pub file above, or drop a folder or ZIP with all your marketing files.
- Check the preview. For a tri-fold brochure you'll see two pages: outside and inside, each with three panels side by side, exactly as Publisher showed them.
- Download the PDF to print or share, and the Word file if you need to change text. The first 3 PDFs and 1 Word file of each upload are free.
Updating prices, dates and hours in Word
Most brochure and menu updates are small: a new price, new opening hours, a new phone number, this season's dates. The Word file is built for that. Each page is kept as a background with the text in editable text boxes on top, so the design doesn't move when you edit.
- Open the Word file in Word 2010 or newer, LibreOffice or Google Docs.
- Click into the price or date and type the new value.
- Save as PDF (File > Save As > PDF) for printing.
Keep changes about the same length. A text box won't overflow into the next panel, so adding three new dishes to a full menu column means making the text a bit smaller or moving items. For a full redesign, the PDF is a good reference to rebuild from in a new tool; see Publisher alternatives or moving designs to Canva.
Sending it to a print shop
Print shops ask for PDF. Our PDFs keep text as real text, which stays sharp at any size, and pictures come from the .pub file itself, so they're only as sharp as the originals were. That's fine for office and copy-shop printing. A few things to check with the printer:
- Bleed. If the design has color running to the edge of the page, the printer may ask for bleed (extra image past the trim line). A .pub file only has bleed if it was set up that way; the converter doesn't add it.
- Fold marks. For tri-folds, tell the printer it's a letter-fold brochure and which panel is the cover.
- Colors. If a commercial printer has specific color requirements, send them the PDF and ask them to check it; most print shops can prepare an office PDF for their press.
Posting online
A flyer or menu often also goes on the website, Google listing or social pages. Use the PDF for a downloadable menu, or the JPG/PNG download for a picture you can post; see PUB to JPG and PNG.
What to do with years of marketing files
Over the years a business collects dozens of versions of the same brochure and menu. Convert the whole folder in one upload to PDF, so you have a record of every version, and keep Word files only for the current ones you still update. Plans are one-time: $9 for up to 20 files, $29 for up to 500. See PUB to PDF for more on the conversion itself.
What to expect
- Fonts are replaced with metric-compatible substitutes, so prices and lines stay where they were; decorative headline fonts may look different.
- The Word file keeps the look with editable text boxes on top of a page background. It is not a reflowable document, and photos are part of the background.
- WordArt and very old files (Publisher 98/2000) are the hardest cases and can differ from the original. Check the preview.