It's been 40 years since I first saw Serif Publisher. At the same time, I saw Timeworks Publisher, Ventura Publisher, and Adobe PageMaker. I ended up using Calamus on the Atari ST but I became familiar with practically any available graphics software and even designed some of my own.
Today, Affinity announced that they are combining everything into one application, including Canva AI. You can mix things a bit through Personas, but I don't know if it's going to be so capable. What I know of all-in-one graphics software is that it has never worked well enough.
I'm skeptical but I don't have any huge projects. After the announcement that they were to be acquired last year, it was obvious that changes were on the way. If you want the Premium version, there is a subscription, as I understand that there has been with Canva.
For typical users, it's free. When upgrades are available, what will happen?
Update 2025.11.18: I downloaded the Windows version. They actually had four different downloads and I downloaded one of the x64 versions. Hopefully, I got the correct one.
In any case, it's installed and I took a look at the first tutorial, which was way too small to be useful.
I tried to bring up a raw photo that I had and tried to re-size it after expanding the application's window. The frame for the photo went one way and the image stayed where it started when I tried to increase the magnification past 25%. Maybe, it will be ready in a few months.
Unfortunately, going back to Affinity Photo didn't work. I still have the version 2.x Affinity applications on my Mac, and Affinity Photo worked on that machine just fine.
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