73
Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support
(support.microsoft.com)
What’s the replacement? Quark express?
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
73 points (96.2% liked)
Technology
64937 readers
4050 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Scribus, ideally.
One piece of non-free software gone, many more to go.
Many common Publisher scenarios—including creating professionally branded templates, printing envelopes and labels, and producing customized calendars, business cards, and programs—are already available in other Microsoft 365 apps such as Word and PowerPoint.
Oh joy. I already have to deal with printing crap people didn't know how to make properly in Publisher or Canva. I'm super pumped to get emailed an excel file and asked if i can print off as a business card
Aldus Pagemaker.
I've still got the box, CD, and Manual for Aldus Pagemaker, but what I use is InDesign from CS6 - the last non-subscription version.
Excel
Publisher 360 I guess with some extra expensive cloud subscription.
Powerpoint, obviously.
Affinity publisher can be a reasonable alternative for a lot of people - while it lacks a few features in terms of multi-user collaboration it is far better in the actual graphical design area.
I've been learning it over the last few weeks, and I can say it definitely has a learning curve for folks used to the Microsoft style, it's pretty solid. Integration with the affinity photo and designer are nice too - moving assets across them is incredibly easy.
It's not free but it's really affordable, and it's not on a subscription so once you buy it you own it. Would recommend checking it out.
This is the one program my dad explicitly uses in the Microsoft suite of programs that I thought, "Ok fine we'll keep paying for this shit." Time to start looking into alternatives. Microsoft... Even when I stop using their software they still cause me endless wasted time.
I recommend Affinity publisher. Purchase once, no subscriptions.
Who remembers WYSIWYG ?
KompoZer was goat
This just cements my session to switch to LebriOffice. Published is an amazing tool, and I use it daily in my work.