From: nospam@needed.invalid
On Fri, 1/9/2026 2:06 PM, Jim the Geordie wrote:
> In article <10jrbtl$2h7ue$1@dont-email.me>, nospam@needed.invalid
> says...
>>
>> On Fri, 1/9/2026 9:30 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>> On 2026/1/9 11:23:55, Jim the Geordie wrote:
>>>> In article <6znfywltn2sm$.dlg@v.nguard.lh>, V@nguard.LH says...
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim the Geordie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have used Microsoft Publisher 'for ever' to produce items like posters
>>>>>> with images.
>>>>>> M$ tell me that Publisher will no longer work after sometime later this
>>>>>> year (2026).
>>>
>>> []
>>>
>>>> In fact, when I opened Publisher, for the first time in months a red
>>>> box, with white text, appeared at the top right of the screen. The gist
>>>> was that I *would not be able to use* Publisher (no version mentioned)
>>>> after October 2026. There was no reason given and the message
>>>> disappeared and did not appear again, either during that use of
>>>> Publisher or when opened later. I am pretty sure that it said 'Will be
>>>
>>> That sounds very odd! Particularly it not appearing again.
>>>
>>
>> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-publishe
-will-no-longer-be-supported-after-october-2026-ee6302a2-4bc7-48
1-babf-8e9be3acbfd7
>>
>> "Microsoft 365 subscribers will no longer be able to open or edit
Publisher files in Publisher"
>>
>> It's possible other perpetual (bought) versions would still work,
>> as that article looks like it is about the [modern] version.
>>
>> Paul
>
> Thanks for clarifying that. Obviously I was not aware of the difference
> and glad now that paid for my versions when I did, although the only
> difference I have noticed is the saving to OneDrive that occurs in
> v2021. As a consequence I find I prefer v2010 so I can find my files
> easier (and open and save files while offline)
> FWIW I had a brief look at Affinity and Scribus. Scribus seems to be
> much nearer to Publisher. Since I am very familiar with Publisher, I
> shall stick with it; until I can't.
>
Depending on whether the alternative offerings are freeware or paid
products, you should consider acquiring a copy of the free one...
in case it disappears at a later date.
Scribus is supposed to be a lot more complicated, and may not be
everyones cup of tea.
In some cases, when companies have dropped out of a market, wonderful
pieces of software were made available just for the downloading,
and today... only archive.org has a copy :-) (And that's not via an
official request to archive it, it's the elves who hang around
archive.org, who "upload stuff" who do things like that.)
The instructions Microsoft offers for "translating" the works, are just
silly. The Print To PDF which comes standard with the OS, only
offers Letter and Tabloid, and is not nearly rich enough to prepare
media for all printing devices (like the 36" wide inkjet we had at work).
The largest media we could make at work, was 10 feet by 10 feet,
and typically it was run at 6 feet by 6 feet (so a plot could
hang in a hallway for random people to analyze as they walked by).
I've worked a couple places, that had the same machine. That machine
is dangerous, as the print head is a chunk of metal, with considerable
acceleration, and we were warned "stick your hand in there, it'll break
the bones in your hand". Which seemed fair enough as a warning. No
guard rails to keep you from doing that.
I used to keep a driver here for making large media, but I don't think
that would work any more on W10/W11, so my options here for large scale
plots are pretty limited. The more modern drivers, resort to using an
image instead of a vector representation, meaning that large format PDF
cannot be repurposed (as part of a workflow). I like my artworks to be
digestible by other tools, later. Dead end artworks are dead end.
When the WinXP machined died, I lost a lot of weird options for doing
stuff. The replacements just aren't the same.
Paul
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