The easiest way how to produce .odt (OpenDocument text files) from Microsoft Publisher sources (.pub) would be to use some of the word processors from open source office suits like OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice. Not all formatting may be successfully converted, but the main body of text should be.
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Conversion of pub file format to odt file format beta
Search for pub to odt converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Microsoft Publisher document to ODF text document.
We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .pub to .odt file format conversion.
Multiplatform software 
- convert pub to odt on any platform
Apache OpenOffice Writer (OpenOffice.org Writer)
Word processor and text editor from OpenOffice.org suite
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from pub file | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
to odt file | Yes, Apache OpenOffice Writer (OpenOffice.org Writer) supports odt file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | Yes | odt editor | Yes | No | No | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned pub to odt. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
LibreOffice Writer
Full-featured word processing and desktop publishing tool from LibreOffice suite
Additional links: Open pub file, Open odt file
PUB
Files with pub extension are in most cases documents created in Microsoft Publisher, a desktop publishing application from Microsoft Office suite. PUB documents are much more complex than common Word files and give more emphasis to design and page layout, rather than actual text.
ODT
Files with odt extension is used for the default text document format of many open source word processors, like OpenOffice.org Writer. ODT documents can be opened in all commercial and free word processors.
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