Migrating from Microsoft Publisher

PopCraft covers the core desktop-publishing surface Publisher users expect: page presets (cards, flyers, brochures), master pages, threaded text, mail / data merge, bleed and crop marks on PDF, tables, photo frames, guides, and print preflight.

Import .pub files

1. Install the Publisher Import plugin from the marketplace (import-export). It is optional and not shipped with the app.
2. Use any of:
   • File → Import as new file… (create-gated like New File)
   • File → Import into this file…
   • Home / file browser New → Import… or drop a .pub on the listing (always creates a new file)
3. Conversion is best effort via libmspub. Complex documents may need a PDF round-trip (export PDF from Publisher, then Import PDF).

There is no .pub export.

1. 1.Open ⋯ → Import as new file…0:00
2. 2.Pick the PDF: its pages come in as layers0:00

Description

A launch post in the editor. ⋯ → Import as new file… opens the file picker and a PDF (PopCraft’s brand guide) is picked; it opens as a new file with its pages, text and pictures as layers — the PDF round-trip for a document Publisher itself exported.

Headers and footers

Use Masters in the Pages panel. H / F add header or footer text (with {{page}} for folios) on the current master. Optional first / left / right masters are supported via page print metadata.

Text wrap around objects

Right-click an image or shape → Wrap text around. Overlapping text boxes flow around the object’s bounding box (AABB). Contour wrap is not supported yet.