Features
Everything on this page works in the browser app today. What still isn’t built is listed at the bottom, plainly.
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Import .pub files
Pick a Microsoft Publisher file and it converts to a .bboss you own. Text arrives in editable frames with its sizes and colors; fonts you don’t have are swapped for close matches and listed. Pictures come across as pictures. The app reports what it skipped.
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Linked text frames
Chain one frame to the next and text flows through them, across pages if you want. Resize a frame and the text redistributes. A red marker shows when there’s more text than room.
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Mail merge
Load a CSV, insert fields anywhere in your text or a table cell, and step through the records on screen. Merge and print runs one copy per record. It warns you about fields with no matching column before you print.
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Master pages
Letterhead, footer rules, and page numbers live on a master and repeat on every page that uses it. Page numbers are a field, so reordering pages renumbers them for you.
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Text frames that wrap
Type and the text wraps and reflows. Multiple paragraphs, alignment including justify, line spacing, space before and after, and vertical alignment inside the frame.
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Fonts and character styles
Twenty-six fonts. Bold, italic, underline, size, color, and letter spacing applied to a selection, not just a whole box. Web fonts embed into the PDF so the printer sees what you saw.
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Tables
Add and remove rows and columns, shade a header row, set the grid color and weight, and type straight into any cell. Resize the table and the grid scales with it.
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Shapes and pictures
Rectangles, ovals, and rules. Stroke color and weight, corner radius, rotation, opacity, and gradient fills. Place pictures and choose how they fit the frame.
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Arrange anything
Shift-click or drag a box to select several. Align to the margins or to each other, distribute evenly, group and ungroup, and move anything forward or back in the stack.
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Rulers, guides, zoom, and snapping
Rulers in inches, millimeters, or points. Drag a guide off a ruler and drag it off the page to remove it. Items snap to margins, folds, guides, and each other. Fit to window or zoom with Ctrl and the scroll wheel; hold space and drag to pan.
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Twelve templates
Tri-fold and bi-fold brochures, flyer, poster, newsletter, letterhead, business card, price list, menu, postcard, mailing labels, and blank. Several come set up with bleed, merge fields, or linked columns already in place.
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Real paper sizes
Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A4 in both orientations, half letter, postcard, and business card, or type your own dimensions. Add pages as the job grows.
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Print-quality PDF
Fonts embed. Turn on bleed for art that runs off the edge, and crop marks with a slug line naming the document and its trim size for the print shop.
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Your library
Create a free account and save projects to the cloud. Sign in anywhere and pick up where you left off.
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.bboss files
Download any project as a .bboss file and open it again later. Plain readable JSON, your copy, on your own computer.
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Install from your browser
Add BrochureBoss to your desktop or home screen so it opens like an app, no download site required.
Not built, said plainly:
- The .pub import is an approximation, not a clone. Text, pictures, colors, and positions convert well. WordArt, some spacing, and vector clip art don’t, and the app lists what it skipped after every import.
- Printing goes through your browser’s print dialog, where you choose Save as PDF. That’s how the fonts get embedded properly, and it means there’s no direct download button.
- System fonts like Arial and Times New Roman can’t embed in a PDF. The app warns you when a document uses one. Switch print-critical text to a web font.
- Colors are RGB. If your print shop insists on CMYK separations, they’ll convert it on their end.
- Tables don’t flow across linked frames and can’t merge cells yet.
- The downloadable desktop app is planned for early 2027.