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Since Canva bought Affinity, I’m uncertain of the future. Maybe Canva will stay true to their word, but it seems questionable based on every other company that’s made similar claims.

I actually forgot this happened until I saw Affinity Publisher was discontinued. This reminds me I need to convert my Affinity docs and migrate as well.

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Canva's operated on a freemium model for years with their own main product, and they have a lot of stuff on the Canva side they can implement into Affinity as a value add. Very little reason to expect that they'd renege on their commitments. The only real risk for that is the upcoming IPO and becoming publicly traded, IMO. The current ownership seems committed enough.

It’s one thing if it was just me, I can get by with duct tape and glue and building shrines to Stallman, but I have to think about the not-so technical folks I hand things off to.

This is partly why I am exploring Scribus, as even if it’s not worked on actively it’s much less likely to just abruptly stop one day, and highly likely its successor software will have a tool to convert things over.

I looked at more competent alternatives to Scribus for Linux and I must say VivaDesigner[1] looks pretty awesome. It's 149 € for the buy-once version. But I believe you have to pay for upgrades...

[1] https://viva.systems/designer/

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