ISSUE 23.35 • 2026-08-31 SOFTWARE By Nathan Segal Six years ago, I reviewed Affinity Photo for AskWoody. Much has changed. In March 2024, Canva acquired Affinity from Serif. A year later, Canva’s intent became clear when it released Affinity Studio. The most notable change from my report in 2020 is that instead of three separate […]

ISSUE 23.33 • 2026-08-17 SOFTWARE By Will Fastie In October, Microsoft will throw the kill switch for Publisher 365, which will prevent Publisher from opening — and thereby orphan Publisher files. In previous articles (see References below), we have discussed what this means and how to deal with it. In this article, I’ll explain in […]

FROM THE FORUMS I recently wrote the article Older software to the rescue, which included a note about my having replaced Adobe Acrobat DC with the ten-year-old program PDF Fusion. The forum topic associated with the article received a lot of traffic. Although I mentioned other old software in the article, forum participants homed in […]

SOFTWARE By Will Fastie Adobe continues to be very annoying, to the extent that I reverted to older software to duck the problem. In the past three weeks, two of my “clients” (of the friends-and-family variety) came to me asking for help. In each case, the problem was Adobe software. Then I finally got fed […]