Publisher alternative in 2026

You do that when you convert to pdf - hit Options & then Print Options.

Interested to read the replies re Publisher. Yes, greatly disappointed the news of withdrawing this so popular soft ware. I use it almost daily, for Family History Charts that I can manipulate the boxes to my preferences. However that is just one instance, The ease of converting to .pdf file also much preferred to Word. I could go on without doubt it is my principle soft ware programme for even writing letters at Christmas of any and all Birthdays for my family and friends,

Yes, I will sorely miss Publisher if it is withdrawn from support.

with regrets M.McA

I have signed and shared in Pakenham, Melbourne, Australia

I recently bought Affinity Publisher 2.

It can NOT open Microsoft Publisher files. If you have saved any of your Publisher files to PDF, Affinity Publisher 2 can open those. For the relatively simple files I've tried, the conversion does very well.

If you have a lot of Microsoft Publisher files, you can convert them to the Affinity Publisher format online at https://markzportal.markzware.com/dashboard/home/ -- but this is NOT free ($39/month for 10 documents or 100 pages per month; $79/month for 50/500; $119/month for 100/1000; $159/mo for 250/2500). See https://youtu.be/w_gew8LWemA?feature=shared

Affinity Publisher 2 has more of a learning curve than I expected, but once you become familiar with it, I expect that you can do essentially everything that you could do with Publisher.

I have an older version of Office that included Publisher, but now that I have installed Office 2025 (which doesn't include Publisher), there are issues with installing older versions. I believe that these issues can be overcome, but I haven't looked into that in much depth yet.

An interesting point regarding Installment Key for earlier CD versions. If Microsoft decided not to acknowledge those old Keys anymore, reloading previous would be impossible, I guess. I hope I am not giving them ideas - gulp!