Run Microsoft Publisher On Mac
Microsoft publisher has been around for a long time but it has never been able to run on Apple computers. If you’re like me you probably have friends who have Microsoft publisher files they occasionally email you. Sadly there is no way to open a Microsoft publisher file on a Mac, until now…
Here are two websites that can convert Microsoft publisher files to PDF.
Microsoft remote desktop application for mac. You can then open, read and print the pdf file on your Mac. You can even edit them.
Microsoft Publisher for iPad is an effective document editing app. Download Microsoft Publisher for iPad in which you can View, Edit and Convert Microsoft Publisher(.pub) to Photo, Adobe PDF and Apple Pages formats. It is an app which is required by anyone who reads, edits, prints and converts Microsoft Publisher iOS document on the iPad. 2013-3-1 I have just made the leap from Microsoft to apple and purchased a nice shiny new iMac. I use Microsoft publisher but can't find a worthy mac friendly program. Is there anything out there. I have looked at mac pages, and it's not the great in relation to MS publisher.
I have tested both of these conversion sites and they both work pretty well. They are both free.
Site one is easier, to use, just read the instructions below, but I’ve included two sites just in case one of them goes down or doesn’t work for you.
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ReplyLaurensays:August 27, 2019 at 3:55 pmThanks so much! I don’t understand why Publisher isn’t Mac-compatible when most Office products are.
ReplyDarlenesays:September 16, 2019 at 8:07 pmOh, my goodness! I am so grateful for this! I have so many Publisher files that I haven’t been able to see since I bought my Mac in 2017; most of them being poems I’ve written. This will make it so easy to see them once again. Thank you, thank you!!!
ReplyGordonsays:September 29, 2019 at 5:11 pmLauren,
The office suite is molded to the Mac by the Mac Business Unit at MS. They do so because those tools have little competition in the marketplace. When it comes to design functions, most of those on the mac are far surpassed by the Adobe product line – InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. So MS doesn’t bother porting Publisher to the mac because it can’t compete. Simple cost-benefit analysis.
ReplyMichaelsays:September 24, 2019 at 9:08 amThank you so much! Online2pdf worked like a charm.
ReplyGORDONsays:September 29, 2019 at 8:24 pmIn looking at the two sites offered here, both seem to have file size limitations. One actually states it at 100MB while the other just fails to work (I was parsing a 142MB file to PDF from PUB).
A better working site, for me, has turned out to be https://www.zamzar.com/
It actually appears to be a better site all the way around as it easily parsed my larger files and offers several conversion file types.
Great tip thanks Gordon
ReplyBethsays:October 8, 2019 at 2:06 pmQuestion – Our Creative department works on Mac’s but one of our clients needs files in Publisher (they work on PC’s) Is there any Mac software that will let you save as a Publisher file?
ReplyWaynesays:October 16, 2019 at 9:19 pmNot that I know of.
ReplyPatsysays:November 29, 2019 at 5:15 pmThank you – this is very helpful – the second listed site worked for me
ReplySamsays:February 2, 2020 at 10:58 amAnother good site that has less restrictions is https://www.filezigzag.com/online-converter . Bulk conversions available as well.
ReplyNeilsays:February 3, 2020 at 9:41 amThis is brilliant. Free microsoft word online mac. Thanks very much.
ReplyGladyssays:February 24, 2020 at 8:38 pmMany thanks! Option 1 worked like a charm.
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A lot of people ask me whether it is possible to get Microsoft publisher for the Macintosh computer, or whether there is an equivalent piece of software. Unfortunately the answer is no, there has never been a Macintosh version of publisher, and this article tries to explain why, and what the options are.
Microsoft Publisher is a very popular piece of software for Windows computers. It fills of a gap on Windows computers because Microsoft Office does not have the capability to do page layout like Apple Pages does. As you think about more alternatives to Microsoft publisher for a window computer, Adobe PageMaker and InDesign are too expensive and complex for most everyday users. So when people want to do a simple newsletter, but one that’s too complicated for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher fills the gap nicely. Microsoft Word documents tend to look pretty bland whereas publisher allows you to spruce them up a bit.
Microsoft publisher fills a gap on Windows computers that does not exist in OSX
Now let’s think about the Macintosh computer, there is no such gap. Apple Pages can do pretty much everything Publisher can do! So a Macintosh user has no need for Microsoft Publisher. Apple Pages can produce some quite spectacular documents very simply, and unless you are a professional publisher there’s really not the need to step up to PageMaker or InDesign. This does not really leave a market for Microsoft Publisher on the Macintosh computer, except for Macintosh users to be able to read a publisher document that was created on a PC! So while this would be a nice convenience for Macintosh users, I don’t imagine it is a large market for Microsoft Publisher.
Microsoft Word is a different story though. Microsoft Word was first released for Apple Computer back in 1984. Microsoft Word is a professional word-processing application that in many ways is superior to Apple pages, and was superior to Apple works and Claris Works. If you are writing large or complex documents there is and always has been a huge market for Microsoft Word on the Apple Computer.
If you are waiting for a version of Microsoft Publisher to appear for Macintosh computer, I would not be holding your breath.
If you want to access a Microsoft publisher document there are a couple of options.
The first one is to use Libre Office. Libre Office The other option is to use one of these solutions I have described in this article. This will give you a PDF version of the Microsoft Publisher document that retains all its original formatting. You can’t really do anything with the PDF version unless you own Adobe Pagemaker, but you will be able to accurately view and print the Microsoft publisher document. Finally used boot camp to set up windows partition on MacBook to pretty much purely run Publisher. Thanks Gary – that’s a good solution if you are caught needing to use both. I’m sorry but I use Pages almost daily, and there is no comparison to what Publisher can do. I run bootcamp like Gary because I can never get documents that consistently look as good as they do on Publisher. I have similar issues trying to open .pub files on LibreOffice. Supposedly you can simply open those files in that particular office suite, but it won’t populate the graphics. That just makes the whole process senseless without them. Anyone have an idea?Related posts:
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Couldn’t believe I didn’t do it years ago.
Can move between one or the other in under a minute or so.
It’s more a utility of neither Publisher or Pages being able to be used on the other operating system that has been the issue for us. Our office runs windows, I use Mac.Publisher 2010 free. download full Version
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