I'm coming from Publisher. What's different in Korva?

Korva was made for people who used Microsoft Publisher. Your .pub files open with their layout, and the commands are where you’d look for them. A few things work differently.

Take the in-app tour

1. On the start screen, click Coming from Publisher? See how everything maps ›. With a publication open, click the Help tab, then Coming from Publisher.

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2. The tour shows four things, one at a time: where Publisher’s thing was, and where it is in Korva. Click Next → to go on, or press the right arrow key.

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The four steps are:

Click Start editing → on the last step, or Skip at any time. You can open the tour again from the Help tab.

What stays the same

• The ribbon tabs. Home, Insert, Page Design, Mailings, Review and View have the same names as in Publisher, and File opens a full-window page with New, Open, Info, Save, Print and Export.
• Keyboard shortcuts. Most of Publisher’s work in Korva: F7 for spelling, F9 for 100%, ⌘⇧NCtrl+Shift+N to insert a page, ⌘⇧CCtrl+Shift+C and ⌘⇧VCtrl+Shift+V to copy and paste formatting. See Keyboard shortcuts.
• Text boxes that flow. Linked text boxes, columns, drop caps, WordArt, master pages, mail merge and Avery labels are all there (master pages, mail merge and Avery labels need Pro). See Linked text boxes.
• Your .pub files. Korva opens files from Publisher 2003 and later with their pages, text boxes and pictures in place. See Open a Publisher file.

What’s different

One Format pane instead of task panes

Publisher spread its settings over task panes, dialog boxes and Format tabs. In Korva, select something and the Format pane on the right shows its settings, with tabs for that kind of object. A picture has Picture, Frame, Arrange and Accessibility.

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Korva saves .kva files, not .pub

Korva can open a .pub file, but it can’t save one. When you’ve finished, you can:

• export a PDF to print or send (free for your first project), or
• save a Korva file (.kva) to keep editing later. Saving needs Korva Pro.

Your original .pub file is never changed. See Save your work.

Opening files

Double-clicking a .pub file doesn’t open Korva. Open Korva first, then use File›, then Open or drag the file onto the start screen.

Printing

On a Mac, File›, then Print opens the usual macOS print window. On Windows and Linux, Korva makes a PDF and opens it in your PDF viewer, and you print from there. See Print a publication.

What Korva doesn’t have yet

• Saving as .pub, or exporting to Word (.docx).
• Spot colors and color profiles for commercial printing. A press-ready PDF can be CMYK, but pictures stay RGB.
• A bleed setting: with crop marks on, Korva adds a fixed 1/4-inch bleed.
• Layers. The Objects & Layers list at the bottom of the Format pane lets you reorder, hide and lock objects instead.
• Spelling checks in languages other than English and Polish.

If you can’t find a Publisher command, look it up in the Publisher command map.

If it still doesn’t work