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Microsoft Publisher retires Oct 1, 2026

Your .pub archive
doesn't retire with it.

Bondi Press opens every Publisher file you've ever made — Publisher 98 through today — and converts it to PDF, Word, or images. Free desktop app. Nothing to install, nothing to host, nothing to pay for.

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Converts toPDFDOCXDOCODTRTFTXTPNGJPGSVGHTMLODG

The product

A tiny widget. A serious engine.

Bondi Press keeps out of your way — a fast, frameless utility that lives on your desktop and converts your whole archive in seconds.

Bondi Press initial screen with dropzone
Drop .pub files straight into the widget
Dropzone highlighted while dragging files
Drag & drop one file or a whole batch
One file loaded into Bondi Press
Files queue up with one tap of “Add more”
Two files loaded into Bondi Press
Convert many files in a single run
Choosing an output format in Bondi Press
Pick your output — PDF, DOCX, images and more
Successful conversion results in Bondi Press
Done — export lands in your Downloads folder

Output formats

Whatever you need to keep the work going

Keep documents editable, archive them as PDF, or ship them as images for the web. One file in, whichever file you need out.

  • Fixed layout

    PDF — pixel-perfect print and archive output.

  • Editable text

    DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, TXT — keep updating, keep collaborating.

  • Raster & vector

    PNG, JPG, SVG, HTML, ODG — for the web, signage and design.

PDFFixed
DOCXEditable
DOCEditable
ODTEditable
RTFEditable
TXTText
PNGRaster
JPGRaster
SVGVector
HTMLWeb
ODGVector

How it works

Three taps. Your whole archive, saved.

01

Drop in your files

Drag a single .pub or a whole folderful onto the widget.

02

Choose the format

PDF for archiving, DOCX to keep editing, images for the web.

03

Convert the batch

Everything lands, organised, in your Downloads folder.

Built with

Serious tools, used properly

Bondi Press is open about its stack — a small, reliable core doing one thing well.

  • Go

    Conversion engine & desktop runtime

    os/exec · Wails bindings

  • LibreOffice

    Publisher importer (.pub → PDF)

    headless draw filter

  • Wails v2

    Native windowing & UI bridge

    frameless singleton widget

  • Astro

    This marketing site & browser tool

    islands · React

  • pdf2docx

    PDF → editable Word document

    layout-preserving converter

Get Bondi Press

Free. No Publisher. No subscription.

A self-contained app for your platform — the engine travels with it.

macOS

Apple Silicon

Download .zip

Windows

10 & 11, 64-bit

Download .zip

Linux

x86_64

Download .tar.gz