Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
support.microsoft.comSay what? Is the creation of text boxes that float text to each another supported in word? Is correct Setup of pages supported?
Maybe I am outdated a little bit on Word news, but Publisher's purpose was for a certain use case, and it did it well.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...
Affinity also has desktop publishing capabilities, when you switch to that mode in the software.
Before Serif was acquired by Canva, the equivalent functionality was in Affinity Publisher.
wow - looks nice... too nice if you ask me... where's the catch?
Canva have promised that Affinity will be 'free forever' so make of that what you will, unless you want cloud AI functionality which requires a subscription. The Affinity software itself is free.
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.
It was a pretty ok product when I used it a couple years ago, but I think there are much better free pieces of software that can replace it
Such as?
Scribus and Libreoffice Draw
I am quite impresses it still is.