Give your documents
a future.
A managed migration service by STAR. We find every .pub file across your organisation, convert it into a fully editable Word or InDesign document, and keep it translation-ready in every language you sell in.
After October 1, 2026, your .pub files stop opening.
For decades, organisations have relied on Microsoft Publisher for newsletters, flyers, forms and directories. When Microsoft retires the product, years of templates and active documents become inaccessible overnight. If those files still power your operations, the clock is already running.
Bulk-converting to PDF isn’t a plan.
Microsoft’s official guidance is to save everything as PDF. You can still see your documents — but PDFs are frozen printouts.
- Zero editability. No easy text updates, image swaps or layout changes.
- Translation block. Professional CAT tools can’t cleanly ingest PDF layouts — formatting is destroyed on extraction.
- Locked archive. Templates you rebuilt for a decade become read-only overnight.
One tool won’t replace Publisher. The right one depends on the document.
Microsoft Word
Best for: Text-heavy documents, reports, simple layouts.
Strength: Accessible, easy to edit, fully compatible with translation tools.
Trade-off: Weak on complex design — heavy Publisher files usually need manual rebuilding.
Adobe InDesign
Best for: Brochures, flyers, catalogues, marketing collateral.
Strength: The professional standard for layout and typography.
Trade-off: Higher subscription cost and a steeper learning curve.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Best for: Short brochures, flyers, one-pagers and simple multi-page leaflets.
Strength: Already in your Microsoft 365 licence and familiar to everyone. Free-form text and image boxes on a fixed canvas behave much like Publisher, so page layouts transfer naturally — and .pptx is fully supported by professional translation tools, so localised versions keep their design.
Trade-off: Not a true print-production tool — limited on long documents, master pages and pre-press output.
Three steps from legacy .pub to a future-proof archive.
Most organisations don’t even know where their .pub files live — SharePoint, OneDrive, local file servers, a marketing manager’s laptop. We take the entire operation off your hands, in three phases.
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Discovery & Assessment
We scan SharePoint, OneDrive and your file servers for every Publisher file and return an inventory report — file counts, locations, owners, last-modified dates — so you can separate active templates from what can simply be archived.
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High-Fidelity Conversion
We convert active files into truly editable formats: Word for text-heavy forms and documents, InDesign for marketing and design assets — preserving layout and brand so nothing gets rebuilt from scratch.
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Seamless Translation
Because the output is real editable source, your files stay compatible with professional translation workflows. Menus, directories, newsletters and brochures can be localised into 200+ languages with the design intact.
Meet Publisher Finder.
You can’t plan a migration you can’t measure. Publisher Finder is our free Windows utility that scans your drives and shares for every Microsoft Publisher file and exports a complete, auditable XLS tracker — so you know exactly what you own before the deadline.
- Scans local drives, network shares and synced folders
- Exports an auditable .xls tracker in one click
- Captures path, owner, size and last-modified date
- Runs locally — no data leaves your network
Windows Security Notice
Windows may show a Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warning when you download our free application. This can happen with new or independently distributed software and does not necessarily mean the file is unsafe.
If you downloaded the application directly from our website:
- Click More info.
- Check the application name.
- Click Run anyway.
Only proceed if you downloaded the file from our official website. You do not need to disable Microsoft Defender or your antivirus software.
Start your Publisher Conversion Journey.
Turn your archive into modern, professional, translation-ready content — and give every document a future beyond Publisher.
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