Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026(support.microsoft.com) |
Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026(support.microsoft.com) |
Maybe I am outdated a little bit on Word news, but Publisher's purpose was for a certain use case, and it did it well. I understand that nowadays people rarely create magazines, but it's still the thing. And I'd like to be supported in it.
The alternative for DTP is Scribus, but the UI is really giving me headaches, and there is no proper support of copying formatted text...
Before Serif was acquired by Canva, the equivalent functionality was in Affinity Publisher.
I have been very happy with Affinity Designer (equivalent to Adobe Illustrator) which I purchased some time ago before the acquisition.
I haven't used Affinity Publisher much, and found a few minor things frustrating (paragraph formatting specifically in the older V2 version), but other than that Photo, Designer and Publisher have been solid.
I still have the V2 apps, from before the Canva acquisition; I'm finding new 'unibody' Affinity app nice as I slowly migrate to it.
One also can't argue with free, even if it isn't open source. Designer does work better in some aspects than Inkscape, as some downstream software I use extensively doesn't like exported SVGs from Inkscape for some reason, but I like Inkscape's open-ness.
It is also not Adobe software, which has plenty of upsides in my book.