LibreOffice comes to the rescue of Microsoft Publisher users! LibreOffice Draw is the quickest way to open, view, edit and manage Publisher documents, and although it is not a desktop publishing application, it can be used for small multi-page documents, such as newsletters, or for single-page documents of any format.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/14/libreoffice-come-to-the-rescue-of-microsoft-publisher-users/
@libreoffice Quote:
MS Publisher is not the first Microsoft application to disappear from the market, and it certainly won’t be the last. Each time, users are faced with the same question: who controls access to my documents? If the format is proprietary, the answer is: the vendor. If the format is standard and open, such as ODF, the answer is: the user.
So true, so very true.
@libreoffice LibeOffice is wonderful in many ways. It would be good to have a distraction-free mode like in the later MS Word versions, though (yeah, I know, but MS Word has been around so long it seems etched into our genes)...
@libreoffice ⬆️ "Each time, users are faced with the same question: who controls access to my documents? If the format is proprietary, the answer is: the vendor. If the format is standard and open, such as ODF, the answer is: the user."
@libreoffice LibreOffice Draw can also edit PDF files.
@libreoffice I find LibreOffice Calc to be far more reliable and usable than MS Excel for xlsx and especially csv files. Thank you for your work.
@libreoffice #Alt4You A picture of a lifebuoy
@libreoffice LibreOffice Draw is also my tool of choice to open PDFs with forms that I need to fill in. Placing text and the occasional image in the right places seems easiest with that.
The only drawback I have found is that it may substitute fonts of the original, which may result in a different look and occasionally even wrapped lines and such (note: this refers to a very old version and may no longer be the case).