About BrochureBoss

The problem

Microsoft is retiring Publisher in October 2026. Millions of flyers, bulletins, newsletters, and menus live in .pub files, and most of the people who made them are not designers. They are office managers, church secretaries, and owners who learned Publisher once and got good at it. Come October, that work has nowhere to go.

Who is building this

I have been building software and websites since 1999, starting in the Navy and then through two decades of running my own businesses. I have watched small organizations get stranded by discontinued software more than once. It is always the same story. The tool goes away, the files stop opening, and someone ends up rebuilding a decade of work from scratch or paying for a subscription they cannot afford.

BrochureBoss exists so that does not happen this time. It opens your old files, it works the way Publisher worked, and it prints what you expect it to print. No design degree, no monthly bill to keep your own documents.

Why not Canva or Adobe Express

Canva and Adobe Express are built for people who enjoy designing. BrochureBoss is built for people who just need the bulletin done by Thursday. Frame-based layout, the same way Publisher worked, so you are not relearning anything.

We open .pub files. Canva does not. Adobe does not. If you have ten years of Publisher documents, everywhere else asks you to start over.

Print-ready PDF that a real print shop will accept, not a web export that comes back with the colors wrong.

No subscription to open your own documents. Your files save in an open format and stay readable whether or not this company is still here in five years, which is exactly the problem that got you here in the first place.

Built by one person who has been shipping software since 1999. You get an actual answer from an actual human when you email.