I downloaded a 10 day trial of Affinity Publisher from Serif, a company based in Britain. I have been using Inkscape my go-to vector app to create postcards and wanted to see how easy it would be to create them with Publisher. After only two days working with the trial version on my Windows 11 Surface Book 3 I decided to fork over the very reasonable asking price of $54.99 for the unlocked version. That's a one time fee not a subscription fee like some other graphics apps require.
Aside from a few initial learning quirks It was easy to repurpose or convert one of my Inkscape postcard templates to a better template in Publisher that will speed up the creation and production of postcards, greeting cards, posters and more. I have just scratched the surface and there is more to learn.
I had thought of using Scribus and although I’m a fan of open-source software Scribus is just too clunky and frustrating to use.
There are two other Affinity apps called Affinity Designer, a vector and raster illustration app and Affinity Photo, a photo and painting app. For the time being I’m going to continue using Inkscape for vector work and GIMP for photo meddling work.
Screen capture of one of the projects being worked on in Affinity Publisher.