Microsoft Publisher was part of the full Microsoft Office package (it was not in the lightweight versions) since year 1991 but they pulled the plug yesterdayhttps://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/d91c6910-fd21-4d84-bca8-474ca91f1753Publisher is used to create letters, brochures, pamphlets etc.It was especially favored by a church.It was easiest to use among the programs of its kind.Microsoft claims Word, Powerpoint and Microsoft Designer can replace what Publisher does.Users do not agree and are angry.Keep in mind it never was free software but was part of the full experience of MS Office. There never was free alternetive as a web app, like there is for word and excel, however limited the free versions are.A Reddit user said he has been trying to learn to use Scribus in place of Publisher.>No program except Publisher itself, can open existing Publisher format files which are .pub files.>There is 30 year worth of content made by people in Publisher>Its use has been in decline since 2020 but it was immensely popular from 1998 to 2018
>>532697801Why not continue using the 2016 version or whatever?
>>532698753you can no longer "approve" an installation of year 2016 release through microsoft servers and the local install doesnt work before its authenticity has been checked by microsoftHOWEVER even older version, 2010 or something, doesnt require authentication but simply works immediately after being installed from DVD disc, you only need the serial key which is a sticker on the DVD caseof course publisher 2010 doesnt read publisher 2016 "enhanced" file formatI think 2016 was the last version to make adjustments to .pub file format itself and it has been stable since
>>532697801Publisher was the best program Microsoft ever made, they pulled it because it's used by right wingers to produce newsletters quickly, we need a replacement now, scribus is slow as fuck and indesign requires a subscription and tracks everything you do. I'll pay a one time price of 300 for an exact replacement for publisher right now. It mist be capable of cmyk printing, full bleed design, great snapping, word art, full font ligatures, line and word spacing, kerning abilities, and pdf output all with a fast easy to use interface. Libre offiice code could be a starting point but the interface, snapping, word art, and bleed needs to dramatically improve.
I feel like reversing it, or at least reversing the file format is possible with AI tools.
>>532698941Sounds like we just need a crack to force the install.
>>532697801Oh man, i drank oceans of Hamm's beer in college. $2.50 a 12 pack
>>532697801Shoulda switched to FOSS long ago. Come home to LibreOffice>>532698941A lot of words to say you need to crack it
it makes me sad that they teach kids android chromebooks instead of windows in typing labs these days, what happened to the public schools of america
>>532697801They're right, PowerPoint completely replaces it.I hate Microsoft more than anyone, but Publisher is just completely unnecessary. I honestly thought it was discontinued 20 years ago.
>>532697801Onenote has all the functionality.
>>532699412Libreoffice doesn't do what publisher does, it doesn't even do full bleed documents bro. Do you even graphic design?
>>532699501Power point isn't for print. Are you insane?
>>532697801I imagine some alternative from Google or Libreoffice replacing it. Microslop had been exclusively catering to the enterprise bubble that is about to pop and sees it's customers as secondaries if that.
>>532697801>>>/g/
microsoft is ran by pajeets now not Whites. Fuck em
>>532699517Nigga i use GIMP and it werks, wtf is YOU niggas doing?
>>532697801https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/https://www.affinity.studio/page-layout-software
>>532697801should would be a shame if people started organizing themselves and advocating for their own interests
>>532699513Onenote doesn't do print, you have no idea of what you are talking about.
>>532699614Gimp doesn't even do cmyk, it's useless, you have no idea what we printers require of our clients.
>>532699412>Shoulda switched to FOSS long ago. Come home to LibreOfficeThe ui is really painful compared to MS Office. I kind of hate LibreOffice.Publisher was nice for pamphlets and cards and stuff. I used to work at a print shop and used it almost every other day...Pajeets don't even use soap most of the time so it makes sense the curried shit niggers at microsoft would not understand why people use Publisher.
>>532697801Just pirate the last office pack that has Publisher then. It's not hard.
>>532699707There's an addon for it, you low iq nigga
>>532697801Publisher kept the old toolbar UI for a while after every other program had switched to that awful ribbon UI
>>532699545Why not? Size it to your paper and it works great. I've used it for posters and even "professional" (zero budget) engineering drawings.
>It was especially favored by a church.Yeah well pajeets are an antichrist race. Does it really surprise you that theyre pulling the plug on it?>>532699501Kekweeeetard
>>532699631Scribus is garbage, it's not even close to what we need. Does affinity require a subscription and does it work completely offline? Because if it requires a subscription or works online we'll refuse to use it. We want a one time purchase program nobody can monitor. This is for important work, not privacy lax zoomers.
>>532699843No, there is not, the cmyk implementation for the plugin only exports to cmyk, it's not full cmyk support from the ground up. Printers require precise control for every aspect of the trapping as is native in photoshop, indesign, and illustrator.
>>532699949>I need the absolute highest security imaginable for my noodle shop menus and church fliers!I promise nobody cares about whatever you're doing in Publisher. Anything you print can be traced back to your printer with tiny yellow dots, btw
>>532697801I am aware of its existence, but I've never used it. At my old job we all used InDesign, I still do design but I've since switched to Affinity.It's worth giving it a try, the base program is free, the only part that requires payment is the AI tools, which you don't need.
>>532700175>Anything you print can be traced back to your printer with tiny yellow dots, btwnope, if its black and white laser printer
>>532699931Full bleed printing doesn't work that way. The actual paper size has to be considered infinite and the trim set to where the cutter will cut the page at the press and then you need an interior margin for non critical text and pictures and yet another for critucal, so your virtual page size has to be larger than your export size, but libreoffice doesn't allow images to exceed the page size and you cant adjust the page size dynamically, and libreoffice only exports at the page size, so you can't adjust the export size when you go to export the document without enlarging the print size ruining your work. It just doesn't work like real printing software does because it's word processing software, not type setting and desktop printing software.
>>532700175No it can't, you have no idea what we do or how, and yes they very much care. I've been doing this before you were born. My people have been killed for centuries for printing shit.
>>532700383Does affinity work entirely offline and without a subscription?
>>532699513>Onenoteit's crap compared to obsidian.md
>>532700450>My people have been killed for centuries for printing shitKek, maybe you should keep your elder's protocols to yourselves then?Also, didn't Publisher gimp (heh) CMYK after the 2010 version? I just pirated InDesign when I needed it.
>>532700520Who are "my people"?And what kind of stuff are you printing, can you post any examples? Are you the one printing that stuff saying that Christ is returning and that Bill Gates is killing us with vaccines? (I didn't take it)>>532700450For that matter, if you're so concerned about being professional, why don't you just use actual professional tools like Photoshop?>Uhh but chuddie, Adobe will literally come to my house and murder me if I buy their softwareThen use GIMP, you gimp. Or Paint.NET, if you love Microsoft so much (and trust them to not flay you alive for your inoffensive opinions)
>>532697801what's the problem, i still use office 2016, and will continue for foreseeable future. microsoft's pajeets just can't into software development
>>532700716No, publisher works with cmyk still. Also indesign isn't as good at what publisher does as publisher plus pirating isn't what we need since we have to distribute legal copies across an entire worldwide network. Also Christians aren't jews. Get it now?
>>532700809Office works still, but publisher doesn't, Microsoft specifically ended that program alone refusing to ever activate or even allow it to downloaded ever again. They did it as part of thrir censorship efforts to suppress Christian missionary activity.
>>532700945brother, you're on 4chan, nobody activates shit, just pirate it
>>532700611It requires an account, but the subscription is optional.I have a subscription, but I don't pay for it, otherwise I wouldn't bother, the AI tools are mostly useful for photo editing, if you do vectors and print layout you don't need them.It does work offline from what I've seen, but it might want to phone home at some point I've just never tested using it offline long-term.Apparently it's also trivial to hack, since there are linux .appimage releases floating around.
>>532700837Then suck it up and learn Scribus, church-boy.
>>532699517>Do you even graphic design?>shills microslop orifice
>>532700945You are such a faggot, nobody cares about your religion or your schizo pamphlets. We maybe have a bit of a laugh before we put them in the bin. I promise you that nobody is going to murder you for them.
>>532698941https://massgrave.dev/office_c2r_linksOffice 2021 has it proplus or publisher
>>532701068I'm a master of acribus, it's garbage, I'm a professional graphic designer and artist for the biggest corporations in the world and I'm telling you nothing can replace publisher for the specific purpose Christians worldwide use it for.>>532701078Yes, i use professional tools, do you?>>532701130They've already jailed and killed friends of mine. You have no idea what you are talking about.
>>532701259Scribus*
I use office 2007 cracked version
>>532700945My brother in Christ it's called massgrave go there follow the simple instructions and your shit is activated
>>532701259>They cancelled Publisher because they hate Christians>They've already jailed and killed friends of minePlease take your meds, there's an Outlook notification reminding you to.
>>532701058Thanks, I'll see if i can uze the subscription to register once and then distribute copies across my household network without resubscribing, many of the users i know will be in remote locations and won't have internet access at all once in the field so they'll need to be able to reinstall from dvd or usb.
>>532697801>A Reddit userGo back
>>532698941>through microsoft serverswell there's your problem
>>532701340Thanks, I'll look into that too. Still need a publisher replacement to be developed though. Scribus sucks. Takes 10 minutes to open a photo heavy document of less than 40 pages, the cache is terrible.
>>532701433If you're obsessed with privacy just boot a live USB of Mint or some other distro and launch the .appimage of Affinity.Other than the USB there won't be a permanent trace of anything, and no internet required.
>>532700945>Christian missionary activityYou mean increase the worldwide nigger population
>>532701571Just get the office 2021 pro plus C2R installer, 2021 is still fine, I use it despite there being a newer one. It should have publisher in it, check the installers page for a list of what it has I linked it up above. You might have to uninstall the version you have now and run some kind of script to get rid of the remaining settings and files before installing a new one, I had to do that when uninstalling one version and installing another onehttps://massgrave.dev/office_c2r_linksher.
>>532701614Are there a lot of niggers in communist countries? I mean besides maybe America and South Africa?
>>532701722Thanks, I'll look into that
>>532701722https://massgrave.dev/office_c2r_linksSorry I messed that up
>>532701791Everyone on /g/ will tell you to do this too, it's safe, and Microsoft's Indian tech wizard portal just uses it too because it's easier.
doesnt latex do all that shit?
>>532700701Hello my dear
>>532697801>No program except Publisher itself, can open existing Publisher format files which are .pub files.Try LibreOffice Draw. If LibreOffice Draw can't open it on Windows, have a GNU/Linux user try to open it after installing all the extra compatibility options he can find.
>>532701610Ah, .appimage version hmm. Now that's an idea, would be nice to distribute live usbs with the software slready installed for rapid deployment, I'll see if affinity handles cmyk and full bleed correctly, that might work. Could hand put usb and printers and hit the ground running.>>532701899Wrll latex is a language, it's not software, you can write latex in a text editor like you can with html, but you still need interpretation software to produce a file from which you can print. It's great for things like news articles which have to be syndicated across different websites and newspapers each using their own layout, and for technical papers and scientific publications, but not great for desktop publishing which is more stylised. But yeah it can be used.
>>532697801>using Winblows in the post-Bill Gates erangmi
>>532700520What do you mean by your people? Expand. I‘m genuinely curious if you have a legitimate personal backstory here.
>>532702252>I'll see if affinity handles cmyk and full bleed correctlyIt does, I do a lot of printed media, I've done some billboards etc.
>>532697801Did anyone used Publisher instead of PowerPoint for such job?
I use Office for Mac was Published ever a thing? I only remember it on Windows from like the 90s.
>>532702379>pretending troonux is a viable alternativelol, lmao even
>>532702401Very cool, I'll try it tonight.>>532702392Well my story started in a warm place called smithfield and with a rather unknown translator named tyndale.>>532702541Most mac users used abode pagemaker which is now called indesign for this kind of thing
>>532699376Did you go to college in the 1960s?
>>532697801Open source Software is the only software you will ever truly own in any sense.If you can't clone and build it from a github it's just a rental, charge or no charge.
>>532702637On Mac Pages is free and basically what Publisher was, much more a layout program than a document creator like Word.
>>532697801I think I used Publisher, like more than 20 years ago. Even Quark was like 20 years ago for me, before I moved to InDesign, which I still use via an old, pirated version that pre-dates the Adobe subscription era. I have no idea what people are using nowadways.
>>532697801>stupid snow niggause notepad and print to pdfuse wordpad and print to pdf
>>532697801You have to buy an app to watch a dvd on pc now
>>532702724Very true, however i don't mind paying a one time purchase price for copyrighted software if it's genuinely mine forever after that. Software takes time to develop and the increase in productivity is worth the money. Even geeks have to eat.>>532702736I'll look into that too, i know linux can emulate mac.>>532702797Professionals still use indesign primarily, but i remember quark too, was pretty good, but i preferred pagemaker, the older version of indesign, but quark was solid.>>532702847Not quite that simple for the specific stuff we need to do, but you can certainly get a basic document printed or electronically distributed that way.>>532702865Vlc player works fairly well for that, the codecs are available, but yeah i know what you are talking about, even linux distros cucked on that
>>532702589My gif implies the exact opposite. If you must use Microsoft software, at least use the cracked copy so you aren't reliant on cloud modern shit like these morons. Even Adobe CC went all cloud, you vill own nothing and be happy
>>532699237Wait 6 months. If a genuine gap has been left in the market, America's unstoppable system of enterprise will resolve it.
>>532703145It used to, but so many software engineers think we want android apps and subscription services instead of pc software for one time fees. I'd program it myself but I'm already overworked and it's a big project.
>>532701433It asks you to log in to the account on first startup, not sure how frequent the subsequent prompts are
just use google docs like the rest of us niggersnever paying for microsoft jeet office prodycts
>>532703225>software engineers think we wantNigger, it's not the pee-ons slinging code that make those decisions, it's product managers and C-suite people. Do you also blame programmers for the spam emails you get? Keep blaming the common man for what the elites do and see how little ends up changing for the better.
>>532703321Thanks fren, that's what I'm afraid of, maybe if i can block that after the initial activation it would okay i guess, but i really want something entirely offline and stand alone, why is that so freaking hard to find now?
>>532701130>nobody cares about your religion or your schizo pamphlets.The most charitable possible interpretation of your statement is that you are utterly ignorant. Please stop giving us STEM people a bad reputation by acting like an overconfident moron in areas you know nothing about.
>>532698941>the local install doesnt work before its authenticity has been checked by microsoftCan't you just change the verification server to an outside one that verifies it for you? Iirc that's how i... I MEAN A FRIEND OF MINE verified my... I MEAN HIS Win 10 install
>>532701259>They've already jailed and killed friends of mine.I'm sorry to hear that, anon.
>>532697801Imagine crying about microslop further destructing itself, there's alternatives that deserve more attention
>>532703630Thanks fren, we'll keep trying to make things better though, never give up.
>>532701130Clueless faggot
>>532702502I was raised on Kid Pix, so Publisher's manic, retard layout system kept me entertained enough to complete school assignments many moons ago.God bless you and rest in peace, Publisher. Bew hew
Never paid for a Microsoft product and never will, Office has barely changed in 30 years, same shit same bugs with a different skin.The 'new Outlook' is everything wrong with current year UI design, and missing features, fucking awful jeet shit. Microjeet has been coasting on businesses being stuck with Office for far too long.
>>532704228Nothing beats the original toolbar design. It's so intuitive whereas with the Ribbon UI I'm still thinking "where the fuck is the tool I want to use?"
>>532704479>Nothing beats the original autopilot design. So intuitive to just activate and then handle takeoff and landing yourselfUnfortunately a global economy eventually chases universal design for niggers>Now planes crash themselves once the sensors malfunction
