Ginblue

Three years hence. Affinity Suit = Canva Pro, yours for the bargain price of £60 a month. Going to happen

Not sure I would be pushing that YouTube video, doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

This is not going to end well. I just upgraded to v2 and have invested in numerus add-ons and am now feeling regret at the money spent. All due respect but "no plans currently" doesn't mean jack. Unfortunately the marriage looks to be over and I wont be investing any more money into this software. Real shame I felt part of a community, now already feel like a customer.

Thank you. No, very strange but next time go to my account via my browser.

Hi all, I've just purchased the Distress Press distressing addon for Affinity Photo and for the life of my cannot locate the "Distressing Template" that seems to be a necessary part of the effects process and as used in the True Grit tutorial video. The brushes and macros are all present. Am I missing something obvious here? Could someone who has Distress Press point me direction in this template. Thanks, Anthony

Hi all, I've just purchased the Distress Press distressing addon for Affinity Photo and for the life of my cannot locate the "Distressing Template" that seems to be a necessary part of the effects process and as used in the True Grit tutorial video. The brushes and macros are all present. Am I missing something obvious here? Could someone who has Distress Press point me direction in this template. Thanks, Anthony

I guess what I'm asking is if you open a new document and then set the Text Style to US spelling, then from then on does all typography (fonts, spacings, weights etc) have US spellings applied, unless you specifically apply another Text Style. Some of the documents I'm working on are imputed into Publisher so if for instance the titles are in Times and the body in another font, if you set the the Text Style of the title to US that works fine for the title but if you then apply that style to the body which is a different font, it them changes the font to Time unless you set a different Text Style for the body. So I'm seeing that for every time I select a different text style I have to set that to US spellings. That seems to me to be the way it works. Bit convoluted I'm sorry, anyway I seem to be heading in the right heading direction now. Thanks.

Thanks @walt.farrell , this has set me in the right direction. The problem I'm having now is that the style editor is imposing unwanted text styles. I just need to get to grips with text style set up, ideally would like a style that only effects spelling. I'm assuming that if I set the spelling for a new doc to US in the default Text Style then that will persist regardless of typography changes. Thanks again

I installed the US language pack on Window and switch to US English as the default system language but it is still flagging color as wrong and colour as correct. I've altered numerous Windows setting but cant seem to find a solution to this problem. This is something I'm going to have to do on a fairly regular basis so if anyone has a solution or work around I'd be very grateful.

I kind of suspected this, real pain! Thanks

Revisiting this old topic as I am still have issues switching from UK to US spelling. Having changed the language settings from UK to US for a US document I am still getting UK spell checking. Example color is flagged as incorrect colour is not flagged. I am UK based so this is the default setting for Windows. I don't know if this is over-riding things but all of Publishers preferences are set to US spelling for this particular doc but it is still using UK English. So does anybody know how I can get Publisher to spell check in US English? Thanks, Anthony

Its OK I've solved the problem! I was changing the spelling setting but the main one . All working fine now.

I'm have a little problem with spelling settings. I am currently creating documents in Publisher that will be output in both UK (native) and US formats. The problem I have is that when I open the US version of the file and try to change the spellchecker to US in the preferences in order to check the US spellings, it reverts back to UK spellings dictionaries as soon as I close the preferences panel. I've tried setting the preferences to US and restating Publisher but when it opens again I'm back to UK settings. I'm sure I'm missing something simple here! So is there a different or correct way to switch spelling settings from UK to US? Yes, I do have the US dictionaries installed. Thanks, Anthony

@Zman88 would just add that is does seen to be a driver issue, so make sure your graphics drivers are all up to date first.

Hi @Zman88 I don't know if you can use earlier versions for a trial but the method described in the post below kind of worked for me. In my case just adding the lines described still wouldn't allow me to open Photo (in this case). However adding the equivalent line from Designer performance file did allow me to open Photo 1.9 and change the Performance Preferences from within the programme. This method did produce a warning message telling me that preferences could not be fully loaded but it did open and once you change the preferences I assume a new clean file is written. Same process was applied to Designer and Publisher and all now run without issue. Would just say this is not a difficult thing to do but a little computer knowledge will be helpful. You do so at your own risk! The setting I changed are Performance, disable openCL and in my case for other reasons set the renderer WARP. Hope this helps and good luck.

Yes, I've done that as Lenovo's drivers haven't been updated since 2018! Thanks anyway

No its a complete system crash no message or trace. I had a crash issue in Designer 1.7 & 1.8 when using isometric grids. After extensive investigation with Affinity no problem could be found. Disabling hardware acceleration was the only solution. Logs failed to record any useful information and CPU usage was fine. I have had to disable hardware acceleration in all my browsers also as it was causing a crash issue on certain sites. Guessing its something on my system, even reset Windows yesterday to see that would help but it made no difference.

I have to say before I continue that I have had to disable hardware acceleration and run WARP rendering in all the Affinity products. Some issue on my system probably. So having made sure I have the latest drivers, having rolled back to several older driver versions also, I still cannot use 1.9. Photo simple crashes trying to open, as mentioned in my previous post. Designer and publisher open but crash as soon as I touch them, so for the time being I'm going back 1.8. As I said I do believe that the issue is partly with my machine but am still open to suggestions regarding a fix. Thanks to all who replied to my previous post. Anthony

Photo 1.9 is crashing when opening. Enter product key ok gets to loading fonts and crashes. Have uninstalled it and reinstalled, with the same result. Both Designer 1.9 and Publisher have installed and are working fine. Anyone else having issues on Windows 10

OK, we seem to have some progress! Switched to the WARP drivers (something that never occurred to me to try) and was able to draw numerous objects, resize and move objects, change grid settings, use snapping and draw over a relativity lengthy time period. This is something I had not been able to do up to this point. I switched back to the Intel drivers opened the same document and almost immediately had a crash when I started to draw. So it would seem to be a driver issue then (fingers crossed). Using WARP is not a big issue at this point and is better then struggling in Inkscape. I've still attached the event log which should have a least two crash events in the time period covered. I see that a new version of Designer is available this was done in version 1.8.2.620 Thanks, Anthony Crash Events.evtx

OK, tried to screen record but of course crashed PC, no video. So we had to record the screen on a phone but you'll get the gist I'm sure. Its odd sometimes I'll just have to start drawing on the canvas and it will crash, sometimes I'll have several minutes before it goes. the actions required too crash the app do seem to vary but it will always crash! The crash is always the the whole PC not just the app. Intel driver need updating but Lenovo don't seem in any hurry to sign the updates off, not even sure it would have any effect. Have also included the app data from the filmed crash but don't think there is anything there. Regards, Anthony Affinity_Designer_Iso_Grid_Crash.mp4 1.0.zip

Hi Sean, Its a funny thing, well not funny but a real pain. I purchased Affinity Photo recently and have the exact same issue with Isometric grids in Photo. I now think its somehow connected to grid snapping. If I unset snap to guides (though I'm not using guides) and keep grid subdivisions down it seems to buy me some time before a crash. My computer is not the most powerful but I use Isometric grids in Inkscape without issue and even run Blender and Cinema 4D OK. I monitored CPU and memory performance and all seem reasonable low before any crash happens. Not that I'm an expert on these things but Designer does not seem to be able to capture the crashes. Thanks for the reply, stay well. Anthony 1.0.zip

Thank you. I'll give the reset a try.

I have some crash reports from an earlier install, but I'm not sure that they are capturing the crash, pretty certain its not. I'll induce a crash also anyway. My Crash Reports.zip Open designer New Doc (web) Opens with grid Open grid and axis manager - select Isometric preset Draw rectangle click - crash If I manually setup a grid it is somewhat more stable. I'm totally stumped. I've not installed any new software since Designer metadata options.json settings.dat attachment_Log.txt attachment_Log.txt attachment_Log.txt attachment_Log.txt metadata options.json 0cc322ff-8007-48a4-b84e-4d8f394f00c0.dmp 7478c6a7-2ad4-4b88-ab67-29ce293487e1.dmp b471a211-f51c-4fd9-8a7c-907ea351e9ac.dmp d7958b6e-e42d-4412-b7e1-c2473738c436.dmp settings.dat metadata options.json settings.dat My Crash Reports.zip

Have posted this in the Windows bugs section but also posting here in the hope it will get more traffic, so sorry if the post seems in the wrong place. Have to re revisit this as this is issue has returned. Having reinstalled Designer (see previous post) I thought the issue had resolved but it has returned. The first document (Crash Test 1) that I opened allows me to made alterations to the grid setting without crashing and still does if I reopen it and work in it all is well. All subsequent documents (Crash Test 2) crash as soon as grid setting are altered. Cannot do anything in the grid and axis manager without a crash, with the exception of this one document. I use isometric grids frequently so this is a big problem for me. I've updated all drivers, even reinstalled Windows, reinstalled Designer, deleted app data which seem to result in the one usable document I have. Does anyone have any idea how I can solve this or what is causing this issue. Have attached the working file and a crashing file example. Thanks in advance and desperation, Anthony. Update: I think that whatever is causing these crashes ls linked to the grid presets. If I manually set the grids it seems OK, if I start with or change to one of the preset it immediately crashes. Stumbling around in the dark a bit though. Affinity Designer Crash.zip