Microsoft Publisher

File Format
Name	Microsoft Publisher
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document Desktop Publishing Microsoft Publisher
Extension(s)	.pub
PRONOM	x-fmt/252, x-fmt/253, x-fmt/254, x-fmt/255, x-fmt/256, x-fmt/257

Description

Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing solution. It produces files with the extension ".pub". Note that this extension is shared by at least four different versions of the format:

• Microsoft Publisher 98
• Microsoft Publisher 2000
• Microsoft Publisher 2010
• Microsoft Publisher Template

Versions

• Publisher v1.0
• Publisher v2.0
• Publisher for Windows 95 (v3.0)
• Microsoft Publisher 97 (v8.0)
• Microsoft Publisher 98 (v8.5)
• Microsoft Publisher 2000 (v9.0)
• Microsoft Publisher 2002 (v10.0)
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 (v11.0)
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 (v12.0)
• Microsoft Publisher 2010 (v14.0)

Pack and Go (PUZ files)

A Publisher feature permits the archiving of a document's files in a compressed archive format in order to move it to a different computer or send it to a commercial printing service; this uses PUZ files, which are actually Cabinet archives.

Links

• Official Site
• Wikipedia - Microsoft Publisher
• POI-HPBF - Java API To Access Microsoft Publisher Format Files
• Zamzar -- a web-based file conversion service, can apparently convert .pub files
• Microsoft Publisher - Reverse Engineering
• libmspub: library to import MS Publisher documents
• Microsoft Publisher converter officially released