Microsoft Publisher vs Affinity Publisher

Publisher links to Microsoft Office's online template portfolio, which is regularly updated. It covers around 700 different options and crisp, clean designs that can easily jump-start your projects.

Its custom guidelines help you align elements on the page, and master pages give you control over elements like page numbers or framing blocks of color. Publisher even has full support for CMYK-optimized printing, the printing format used by ink printers to produce clear, high quality printing.

It works well with the rest of the Office suite. It natively imports Microsoft Word .doc and .docx files with ease. Or if you need Excel in your next newsletter, you can import a file without hassle.

Publisher comes with Microsoft Office. It is a lightweight alternative to professional layout software such as Adobe InDesign.

You can quickly find solutions, tutorials, etc. online when you need help. Contrast this to Scribus, which despite its rich feature set, is often unintuitive and awkward to use, and help from other users sometimes difficult to find.

Serif's forums, videos and other sites offer good resources to learn this tool, which has a very intuitive interface.