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If you work for a church or nonprofit like mine that has literal decades of files in Microsoft Publisher format, Microsoft has published a handy script to turn them into PDFs, but it will only work until the end of this month! support.microsoft.com/en-us/publis...

support.microsoft.comMicrosoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 | Microsoft SupportMicrosoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026

20/9/26, 8:50 pm3 reposts1 like

Evan Doyle

@evandoyle.com

20 Sept

It requires a tiny bit of technical know-how, but anyone who knows what a command line is should be able to get it up and running in a few minutes. Once it’s going, it runs on its own churning out PDFs. It preserves booklet formatting, so stored bulletins and the like will print correctly.

Evan Doyle

@evandoyle.com

20 Sept

I understand Microsoft wanting to EOL the software, but not providing an ongoing conversion tool is bonkers to me. I genuinely converted almost 1,500 Publisher documents today at my church—files that would have disappeared into the ether in two weeks otherwise!