Microsoft Publisher to JPEG converter

PUB → JPG gives the most widely accepted picture of each page, which matters when a school portal or website builder only takes JPEG uploads.

Converted with Office engine → Image engine · input deleted within 24 h
Free: 5 conversions a day · 5 MB each
Higher limits →

From real runs

What you get — and what changes

Element	Result	What happens
Page images	Kept	Two brochure pages produced sample-page-1.jpg and sample-page-2.jpg, zipped together in page order.
File size	Changed	The brochure JPEGs were 221,178 and 328,693 bytes against 254,109 and 677,170 for the PNGs, because the photo-heavy second page compresses far better as JPEG.
Small text	Changed	Quality 90 leaves faint halos around small body text and thin rules; readable on screen, slightly fuzzy when zoomed.
Photos and clip-art	Kept	Gallery photographs look the same as in the PNG route; JPEG is built for exactly this kind of content.
Transparency	Lost	JPEG has no alpha channel, so every page is flattened onto white.
Frame layout	Changed	The JPEG shows the page as our office engine laid it out, including any text that overruns a linked frame or runs beneath a picture.

Page images Kept
Two brochure pages produced sample-page-1.jpg and sample-page-2.jpg, zipped together in page order.
File size Changed
The brochure JPEGs were 221,178 and 328,693 bytes against 254,109 and 677,170 for the PNGs, because the photo-heavy second page compresses far better as JPEG.
Small text Changed
Quality 90 leaves faint halos around small body text and thin rules; readable on screen, slightly fuzzy when zoomed.
Photos and clip-art Kept
Gallery photographs look the same as in the PNG route; JPEG is built for exactly this kind of content.
Transparency Lost
JPEG has no alpha channel, so every page is flattened onto white.
Frame layout Changed
The JPEG shows the page as our office engine laid it out, including any text that overruns a linked frame or runs beneath a picture.

Sample conversions

Brochure as JPEGs

Input: sample.pub, 161,792 bytes, two A4 landscape pages, one of them mostly photographs.
Output: 496,203-byte ZIP with two 1684 × 1191 JPEGs in 1.4 s, about half the size of the PNG ZIP.

Single-page poster at print resolution

Input: A one-page Letter landscape poster saved by Publisher 2013, with {"dpi":300}.
Output: One 3300 × 2550 JPEG of 763,108 bytes, no ZIP; checkbox symbols drawn in Wingdings appear as the letter q.

A real Microsoft Publisher → JPEG run

We converted our Microsoft Publisher sample (158 KB) with Office engine → Image engine on 2026-10-20. It took 1.6 s and produced a 485 KB JPEG file, 3.1× larger than the input. The engine raised 4 warnings, listed below.

Input · sample.pub · 158 KB

OLE2 compound document (legacy Office binary)

Output · sample.zip · 485 KB

ZIP with 2 page images (sample-page-1.jpg … sample-page-2.jpg)

Archive parts: 2
first: sample-page-1.jpg

Fonts that are not installed on our servers are replaced with substitutes, so text can wrap differently from Publisher.
Text that flows between linked frames can overrun its box on multi-column pages; check each page before printing.
PDF pages rendered as images; selectable text is not preserved.
2 pages written as one JPG each inside a ZIP.

Options and when to change them

quality: Drop to 75 when an upload form has a size cap; raise to 95 when the page is mostly small text.
dpi: Use 300 for anything that will be printed; 144 is enough for web pages and email.
max_pages: Use 1 to get only the cover page of a newsletter or programme.

Do it yourself

LibreOffice and pdftoppm

bash

soffice --headless --convert-to pdf bulletin.pub && pdftoppm -jpeg -jpegopt quality=90 -r 144 bulletin.pdf page

Fonts used in the publication must be installed locally or the same substitutions happen on your machine.

Microsoft Publisher to JPEG by API or MCP

The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine → Image engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=pub&to=jpg.

curl

curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.pub" -F "from=pub" -F "to=jpg" \
  -F 'options={"width":0}' \
  --output output.jpg

Options this engine accepts for Microsoft Publisher → JPEG

Key	Applies to	Type	Default
width	Writing JPEG	number	0
height	Writing JPEG	number	0
fit	Writing JPEG	contain · cover · fill	contain
quality	Writing JPEG	number	90
background	Writing JPEG	string	#ffffff
stripMetadata	Writing JPEG	boolean	true

API reference

When this is the wrong conversion

If the page is mostly text and line art, PUB → PNG keeps it crisper at a similar size.
If the reader needs to search or copy the text, PUB → PDF keeps it selectable.

Microsoft Publisher to JPEG questions

JPG or PNG for a Publisher flyer?

Choose JPG when the flyer is photo-heavy or the upload form only takes JPEG; choose PNG when it is mostly text, logos and flat colour, which JPEG blurs slightly at the edges.

Why do checkboxes or bullets show as letters?

Publisher drew them with a symbol font such as Wingdings, which we do not have, so the underlying letter is shown instead. Replace the symbols in the original or edit the image afterwards.

Can I get the JPGs at an exact width for our website?

Set width to the pixel width your site uses, for example 1200; the height follows the page proportions so nothing is stretched.