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Microsoft Publisher to TIFF converter

PUB → TIFF puts every page of the publication into a single lossless TIFF file, which is the shape many print shops and records systems still ask for.

  • 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

  • Pages Kept

    All seven newsletter pages ended up as seven frames inside one TIFF rather than seven separate files, so the archive keeps one item per publication.

  • Image quality Kept

    Frames are stored with lossless Deflate compression, so there are none of the halos JPEG adds around small type.

  • Resolution tag Kept

    Each frame records its DPI: 144 by default, 300 when requested, so layout software places the page at its true printed size.

  • File size Changed

    Lossless pages are heavy: the two-page brochure was 1,074,064 bytes at 144 DPI and 1,665,456 bytes at 300 DPI, several times the PDF.

  • Searchable text Lost

    A TIFF holds pixels only; records systems that need full-text search should store the PDF alongside it.

  • Publisher layout faults Changed

    Any frame overflow or picture-over-text problem from the layout step is frozen into the TIFF, so check the frames before filing them.

Sample conversions

Brochure at print resolution

Input
sample.pub, 161,792 bytes, two A4 landscape pages, with {"dpi":300}.
Output
One 1,665,456-byte TIFF with two 3508 × 2481 frames tagged 300 DPI, in 1.2 s for the image step.

Newsletter for the archive

Input
490,496-byte, seven-page Letter newsletter at the default 144 DPI.
Output
One 1,942,768-byte TIFF with seven 1224 × 1584 frames; the same overlaps seen in the PDF on page 3 are present.

A real Microsoft Publisher → TIFF run

We converted our Microsoft Publisher sample (158 KB) with Office engine → Image engine on 2026-10-20. It took 2.4 s and produced a 1.0 MB TIFF file, 6.6× larger than the input. The engine raised 4 warnings, listed below.

Input · sample.pub · 158 KB

OLE2 compound document (legacy Office binary)

Output · sample.tif · 1.0 MB

1684 × 1191 px, deflate

Width
1,684
Height
1,191
Encoding
deflate
  • 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 multi-page TIFF at 144 DPI.

Options and when to change them

dpi
Use 300 for print shops and 200 for most records systems; 144 keeps archive files smaller when the pages are only read on screen.
max_pages
Limit it when only the cover page is needed, for example as a catalogue thumbnail.

Do it yourself

LibreOffice and pdftoppm

bash
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf issue.pub && pdftoppm -tiff -tiffcompression deflate -r 300 issue.pdf page

pdftoppm writes one TIFF per page; combine them with tiffcp if your archive expects a single multi-page file.

Microsoft Publisher to TIFF 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=tiff.

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=tiff" \
  --output output.tif
API reference

When this is the wrong conversion

  • If the archive must be searchable, keep PUB → PDF as the master copy; TIFF is only pictures of the pages.
  • If the files are for a website, PUB → PNG or WebP is far smaller.

Microsoft Publisher to TIFF questions

Do I get one TIFF per page or one file for the whole publication?

One file. Every page becomes a frame inside the same multi-page TIFF, in page order; most image viewers show a page counter for it.

Is TIFF better than PDF for archiving newsletters?

Only if your records system requires it. TIFF keeps an exact picture of each page but no text, while a PDF keeps the text searchable at a fraction of the size.

What DPI does a print shop want?

Usually 300 at the final printed size. Set dpi to 300; the file is tagged with it, so the shop's software sizes the page correctly.

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