Patrick Connor

I noticed some weirdness with the auto-close feature when zoomed in (see video below). It gets harder to not only see the 'close loop', but to also trigger the auto-close feature the more you zoom in. This is especially noticeable on the iPad, to the point where I didn't think auto-close was working at all. I routinely work at zoom levels of 400% or higher, and this appears to be the point where the auto-close feature begins to get wonky.

CleanShot 2024-04-19 at 16.17.54.mp4    

trying to replicate the nice circle design with 0 to 100% pressure curve, I found that rendering has some issues at higher zoom levels. This is the same design at different zoom levels (on Macbook M2)


zoom levels.afdesign

This thread is not for feature requests and barcodes are unrelated to QR code as far as implementing them, so this doesn't help advance Barcodes, sorry.

Here's a list of some of the bugs which have been fixed in beta build 2.5.0.2402, since 2.4.2 (2371)
Please reply in this forum only to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other New Bugs and Issues in the Betas forum.
(A) Bug fixes which affected all platforms 
User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Select options in Photo Persona are offset based on bleed AF-1973 Cut and pasting Anchors creates a new Anchor, breaking Cross References to the original Anchor or Paragraph AF-1911 SVG rectangle with width="100%" height="100%" is imported incorrectly as 1x1 AF-1899 Eight digit SVG hex values not being parsed correctly AF-2152 Exporting to PDF with Tagging enabled fails when a text object is visually cropped with a vector mask, inside a group that is visually cropped with a vector mask AF-2112 Resource manager: OpenAsset image status shows as "Pending"  User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Paragraph > Spacing > Leading can be set to a negative value  (B) Bug fixes which affected Desktop (Windows and macOS) 
Blur Tool: blur effect quite subtle if Metal compute acceleration is enabled AF-2268 Text Styles Panel not displaying decorations correctly with CMYK values  Text Style Editor: Shouldn't each Stylistic Set be a On/Off/No Change value rather than a number  Text Style Editor: Caps to Small Caps/Petite Caps shows as Normal Caps in Style Settings  Text Style Editor: Stylistic Sets and Character Variants are not capped to the font max  Text Style Editor: Deleting a Shear or Scale value will set it to 'No Change' but doesn't remove the value from the style  Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options  Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font'  Text Style Editor: Initial Words end characters cannot be set to 'No Change' after modifying Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font' Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options AutoCorrect - Capitalise first letter of sentences issue AF-2340 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Running headers and paragraph style that is used in more than one paragraph in a row AF-1940 Hyperlink panel displays the same/first anchor for all if multiple are setup AF-1647 Find & Replace- Searching for words with an Anchor/note/index marker inserted will fail to find the word with 'match whole word' enabled AF-1928 Text styles panel doesn't show the text stroke outline unless you've also set the fill colour on MacOS AF-2186 Editing a TOC heading and updating TOC creates a new anchor incorrectly AF-1912 Develop Persona- Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM | C Lens profile not identified in the lens panel AF-2132 Importing a multi level list into Pub with various text styles AF-1832 HEIC files with transparency import with a solid black fill in place of the transparency  Table Format's text style appears blank if the original style has been renamed  [macOS/Win] Resource Manager panel doesn't update automatically  New Stack with images using 'bottom right' metadata orientation are stacked upside down AF-996 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Linked multi-page PDF files default to Page 1 when re-loading the document, changing passthrough policy subsequently causes an app crash AF-2662 (C) Bugs fixed which specifically affected Windows 
LAB/Greyscale values are showing with decimals AF-2327 Edit Text Style dialog does not always fit on screen & cannot be resized, hiding OK / Cancel options AF-2351 When inserting a Cross-Reference the Search from start files is not active AF-1747 Email Hyperlinks with multiple email addresses (CC & BCC) fail to validate / export AF-1736 Brush Previews are drawn within the Colour Picker Loupe when using the ALT modifier with Brush Tools Clear User Data dialog does not fit on screen for smaller displays AF-2217 Undesired Colour Conversion when using 'Performed by Printer' AF-1633 Buttons disappearing from preflight panel AF-2643 Menu Edit > Fill...: pressing Enter to validate choice/close dialog no longer works AF-2232 Text Style Editor: Outline stroke style doesn't have the ability to set 'No change'. Text Style Editor: Scrollers on Alternates page have a different max value on macOS than Windows [Japanese] Multiple panels show clipping [Spanish] Multiple panels show clipping Edit Text Style: There is a red dot bleeding through under Outline Export Persona: you can lose the Variable and Description fields in the Token flyout Publisher When export to PDF the UI progress bar freezes but the PDF is exported Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer  Edit > Copy Merged is incorrect for Portuguese AF-2188 Difficulty dragging a layer to the top of the stack  AF-2144 Grid and Axis manager always uses 3 decimal point values when adjusting using slider, regardless of UI setting AF-2450 Mouse Scrolling the Angle field in FX does not visually update changes on canvas when cursor is over the Angle value itself AF-2121 Overprint Swatches when Show as List enabled do not visually clip the ellipse used to denote the Overprint state AF-1323 Pressing Esc whilst dragging on Transform panel controls causes the controls to start reacting to mouseover Colour Studio in Slider view offers 16bit / Percentage options for HSL and LAB incorrectly AF-2424 Changing Colour Studio view from Sliders changes colour mode settings applied in Slider view AF-2423 Can't print multiple artboards with bleed AF-2358 Export Palette option is not greyed out in Swatches Studio menu with a Pantone Palette selected Show Column Guides and Show Pixel Selection toggles are missing in the pixel persona New Document dialog: No X to close documents in List View Overprint is not enabled when creating a Global Colour, and disables when edited 'Search' fields do not offer a right click context menu 'New from Clipboard' fails with SVG code on the clipboard AF-854 Stroke Well in Colour Studio cannot be clicked in the centre of the icon AF-2070 Layers Panel- Shift selecting multiple layers after using the Select > Select Bottom/Top command does not function AF-1820 Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer Select all layers keyboard shortcut not set by default  Cannot reapply the highlighted text style to multiple paragraphs (D) Bugs fixed which specifically affected macOS 
Placing any multiple page PDF and setting duplicate to display a different page will always show page 1 when saved and reopened AF-1726 'Characters Including Spaces' only shows as 'Characters' in the Status bar AF-1958 Colour modes in Colour Studio Slider view incorrectly share display settings, causing incorrect colour values to be shown AF-2421 Edit Text Style - Position & Transform baseline jumps to negative value AF-1691 Procedural Texture- 'rgbtoi' function canvas rendering inconsistent with metal enabled AF-1963 Text Style Editor: Setting Outline Stroke style to No Change doesn't appear to fully revert the values Show Column Guides and Show Pixel Selection toggles are missing in the pixel persona AF-2119 Layers Release option in context menu becomes greyed out when you have more than 30 objects selected Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu AF-1666 MS Word doc with page range index references aren't supported AF-1618 CMYK Color sliders in colour chooser inconsistent AF-657 Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip' Trash Can icon on Anchor Panel is too small on macOS Document Setup missing from File menu in Pixel Persona AF-839
  (E) Bugs fixed which specifically affected iPad 
Appearance > Options > Colour Wheel causes a crash  Korean Text does not get input/combined correctly on iPadOS AF-1268 Layers Studio menu missing 'Release' and 'Mask to Below' commands AF-1919 Top ruler is missing when stage manager is active  AF-1338 White flash shows on loading the in-app iPad help     Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu   pop-up dialogs from adjustments do not turn translucent when dragging the slider AF-595 Resource Manager Details page doesn't update automatically   Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip'     iPad edit / document menus conflict with brush settings     CMD+S shortcut doesn't work on the magic keyboard with Zhuyin input AF-669 Able to set negative values on Corner Tool slider 
  If you have reported a bug and it is not yet fixed, please do not report it again. More fixes will be made during the 2.5 beta cycle.

Here's a list of some of the bugs which have been fixed in beta build 2.5.0.2402, since 2.4.2 (2371)
Please reply in this forum only to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other New Bugs and Issues in the Betas forum.
(A) Bug fixes which affected all platforms 
User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Select options in Photo Persona are offset based on bleed AF-1973 Cut and pasting Anchors creates a new Anchor, breaking Cross References to the original Anchor or Paragraph AF-1911 SVG rectangle with width="100%" height="100%" is imported incorrectly as 1x1 AF-1899 Eight digit SVG hex values not being parsed correctly AF-2152 Exporting to PDF with Tagging enabled fails when a text object is visually cropped with a vector mask, inside a group that is visually cropped with a vector mask AF-2112 Resource manager: OpenAsset image status shows as "Pending"  User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Paragraph > Spacing > Leading can be set to a negative value  (B) Bug fixes which affected Desktop (Windows and macOS) 
Blur Tool: blur effect quite subtle if Metal compute acceleration is enabled AF-2268 Text Styles Panel not displaying decorations correctly with CMYK values  Text Style Editor: Shouldn't each Stylistic Set be a On/Off/No Change value rather than a number  Text Style Editor: Caps to Small Caps/Petite Caps shows as Normal Caps in Style Settings  Text Style Editor: Stylistic Sets and Character Variants are not capped to the font max  Text Style Editor: Deleting a Shear or Scale value will set it to 'No Change' but doesn't remove the value from the style  Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options  Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font'  Text Style Editor: Initial Words end characters cannot be set to 'No Change' after modifying Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font' Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options AutoCorrect - Capitalise first letter of sentences issue AF-2340 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Running headers and paragraph style that is used in more than one paragraph in a row AF-1940 Hyperlink panel displays the same/first anchor for all if multiple are setup AF-1647 Find & Replace- Searching for words with an Anchor/note/index marker inserted will fail to find the word with 'match whole word' enabled AF-1928 Text styles panel doesn't show the text stroke outline unless you've also set the fill colour on MacOS AF-2186 Editing a TOC heading and updating TOC creates a new anchor incorrectly AF-1912 Develop Persona- Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM | C Lens profile not identified in the lens panel AF-2132 Importing a multi level list into Pub with various text styles AF-1832 HEIC files with transparency import with a solid black fill in place of the transparency  Table Format's text style appears blank if the original style has been renamed  [macOS/Win] Resource Manager panel doesn't update automatically  New Stack with images using 'bottom right' metadata orientation are stacked upside down AF-996 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Linked multi-page PDF files default to Page 1 when re-loading the document, changing passthrough policy subsequently causes an app crash AF-2662 (C) Bugs fixed which specifically affected Windows 
LAB/Greyscale values are showing with decimals AF-2327 Edit Text Style dialog does not always fit on screen & cannot be resized, hiding OK / Cancel options AF-2351 When inserting a Cross-Reference the Search from start files is not active AF-1747 Email Hyperlinks with multiple email addresses (CC & BCC) fail to validate / export AF-1736 Brush Previews are drawn within the Colour Picker Loupe when using the ALT modifier with Brush Tools Clear User Data dialog does not fit on screen for smaller displays AF-2217 Undesired Colour Conversion when using 'Performed by Printer' AF-1633 Buttons disappearing from preflight panel AF-2643 Menu Edit > Fill...: pressing Enter to validate choice/close dialog no longer works AF-2232 Text Style Editor: Outline stroke style doesn't have the ability to set 'No change'. Text Style Editor: Scrollers on Alternates page have a different max value on macOS than Windows [Japanese] Multiple panels show clipping [Spanish] Multiple panels show clipping Edit Text Style: There is a red dot bleeding through under Outline Export Persona: you can lose the Variable and Description fields in the Token flyout Publisher When export to PDF the UI progress bar freezes but the PDF is exported Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer  Edit > Copy Merged is incorrect for Portuguese AF-2188 Difficulty dragging a layer to the top of the stack  AF-2144 Grid and Axis manager always uses 3 decimal point values when adjusting using slider, regardless of UI setting AF-2450 Mouse Scrolling the Angle field in FX does not visually update changes on canvas when cursor is over the Angle value itself AF-2121 Overprint Swatches when Show as List enabled do not visually clip the ellipse used to denote the Overprint state AF-1323 Pressing Esc whilst dragging on Transform panel controls causes the controls to start reacting to mouseover Colour Studio in Slider view offers 16bit / Percentage options for HSL and LAB incorrectly AF-2424 Changing Colour Studio view from Sliders changes colour mode settings applied in Slider view AF-2423 Can't print multiple artboards with bleed AF-2358 Export Palette option is not greyed out in Swatches Studio menu with a Pantone Palette selected Show Column Guides and Show Pixel Selection toggles are missing in the pixel persona New Document dialog: No X to close documents in List View Overprint is not enabled when creating a Global Colour, and disables when edited 'Search' fields do not offer a right click context menu 'New from Clipboard' fails with SVG code on the clipboard AF-854 Stroke Well in Colour Studio cannot be clicked in the centre of the icon AF-2070 Layers Panel- Shift selecting multiple layers after using the Select > Select Bottom/Top command does not function AF-1820 Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer Select all layers keyboard shortcut not set by default  Cannot reapply the highlighted text style to multiple paragraphs (D) Bugs fixed which specifically affected macOS 
Placing any multiple page PDF and setting duplicate to display a different page will always show page 1 when saved and reopened AF-1726 'Characters Including Spaces' only shows as 'Characters' in the Status bar AF-1958 Colour modes in Colour Studio Slider view incorrectly share display settings, causing incorrect colour values to be shown AF-2421 Edit Text Style - Position & Transform baseline jumps to negative value AF-1691 Procedural Texture- 'rgbtoi' function canvas rendering inconsistent with metal enabled AF-1963 Text Style Editor: Setting Outline Stroke style to No Change doesn't appear to fully revert the values Show Column Guides and Show Pixel Selection toggles are missing in the pixel persona AF-2119 Layers Release option in context menu becomes greyed out when you have more than 30 objects selected Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu AF-1666 MS Word doc with page range index references aren't supported AF-1618 CMYK Color sliders in colour chooser inconsistent AF-657 Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip' Trash Can icon on Anchor Panel is too small on macOS Document Setup missing from File menu in Pixel Persona AF-839
  (E) Bugs fixed which specifically affected iPad 
Appearance > Options > Colour Wheel causes a crash  Korean Text does not get input/combined correctly on iPadOS AF-1268 Layers Studio menu missing 'Release' and 'Mask to Below' commands AF-1919 Top ruler is missing when stage manager is active  AF-1338 White flash shows on loading the in-app iPad help     Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu   pop-up dialogs from adjustments do not turn translucent when dragging the slider AF-595 Resource Manager Details page doesn't update automatically   Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip'     iPad edit / document menus conflict with brush settings     CMD+S shortcut doesn't work on the magic keyboard with Zhuyin input AF-669 Able to set negative values on Corner Tool slider 
  If you have reported a bug and it is not yet fixed, please do not report it again. More fixes will be made during the 2.5 beta cycle.

Here's a list of some of the bugs which have been fixed in beta build 2.5.0.2402, since 2.4.2 (2371)
Please reply in this forum only to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other New Bugs and Issues in the Betas forum.
(A) Bug fixes which affected all platforms 
User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Select options in Photo Persona are offset based on bleed AF-1973 Cut and pasting Anchors creates a new Anchor, breaking Cross References to the original Anchor or Paragraph AF-1911 SVG rectangle with width="100%" height="100%" is imported incorrectly as 1x1 AF-1899 Eight digit SVG hex values not being parsed correctly AF-2152 Exporting to PDF with Tagging enabled fails when a text object is visually cropped with a vector mask, inside a group that is visually cropped with a vector mask AF-2112 Resource manager: OpenAsset image status shows as "Pending"  User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Paragraph > Spacing > Leading can be set to a negative value  (B) Bug fixes which affected Desktop (Windows and macOS) 
Blur Tool: blur effect quite subtle if Metal compute acceleration is enabled AF-2268 Text Styles Panel not displaying decorations correctly with CMYK values  Text Style Editor: Shouldn't each Stylistic Set be a On/Off/No Change value rather than a number  Text Style Editor: Caps to Small Caps/Petite Caps shows as Normal Caps in Style Settings  Text Style Editor: Stylistic Sets and Character Variants are not capped to the font max  Text Style Editor: Deleting a Shear or Scale value will set it to 'No Change' but doesn't remove the value from the style  Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options  Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font'  Text Style Editor: Initial Words end characters cannot be set to 'No Change' after modifying Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font' Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options AutoCorrect - Capitalise first letter of sentences issue AF-2340 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Running headers and paragraph style that is used in more than one paragraph in a row AF-1940 Hyperlink panel displays the same/first anchor for all if multiple are setup AF-1647 Find & Replace- Searching for words with an Anchor/note/index marker inserted will fail to find the word with 'match whole word' enabled AF-1928 Text styles panel doesn't show the text stroke outline unless you've also set the fill colour on MacOS AF-2186 Editing a TOC heading and updating TOC creates a new anchor incorrectly AF-1912 Develop Persona- Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM | C Lens profile not identified in the lens panel AF-2132 Importing a multi level list into Pub with various text styles AF-1832 HEIC files with transparency import with a solid black fill in place of the transparency  Table Format's text style appears blank if the original style has been renamed  [macOS/Win] Resource Manager panel doesn't update automatically  New Stack with images using 'bottom right' metadata orientation are stacked upside down AF-996 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Linked multi-page PDF files default to Page 1 when re-loading the document, changing passthrough policy subsequently causes an app crash AF-2662 (C) Bugs fixed which specifically affected Windows 
LAB/Greyscale values are showing with decimals AF-2327 Edit Text Style dialog does not always fit on screen & cannot be resized, hiding OK / Cancel options AF-2351 When inserting a Cross-Reference the Search from start files is not active AF-1747 Email Hyperlinks with multiple email addresses (CC & BCC) fail to validate / export AF-1736 Brush Previews are drawn within the Colour Picker Loupe when using the ALT modifier with Brush Tools Clear User Data dialog does not fit on screen for smaller displays AF-2217 Undesired Colour Conversion when using 'Performed by Printer' AF-1633 Buttons disappearing from preflight panel AF-2643 Menu Edit > Fill...: pressing Enter to validate choice/close dialog no longer works AF-2232 Text Style Editor: Outline stroke style doesn't have the ability to set 'No change'. Text Style Editor: Scrollers on Alternates page have a different max value on macOS than Windows [Japanese] Multiple panels show clipping [Spanish] Multiple panels show clipping Edit Text Style: There is a red dot bleeding through under Outline Export Persona: you can lose the Variable and Description fields in the Token flyout Publisher When export to PDF the UI progress bar freezes but the PDF is exported Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer  Edit > Copy Merged is incorrect for Portuguese AF-2188 Difficulty dragging a layer to the top of the stack  AF-2144 Grid and Axis manager always uses 3 decimal point values when adjusting using slider, regardless of UI setting AF-2450 Mouse Scrolling the Angle field in FX does not visually update changes on canvas when cursor is over the Angle value itself AF-2121 Overprint Swatches when Show as List enabled do not visually clip the ellipse used to denote the Overprint state AF-1323 Pressing Esc whilst dragging on Transform panel controls causes the controls to start reacting to mouseover Colour Studio in Slider view offers 16bit / Percentage options for HSL and LAB incorrectly AF-2424 Changing Colour Studio view from Sliders changes colour mode settings applied in Slider view AF-2423 Can't print multiple artboards with bleed AF-2358 Export Palette option is not greyed out in Swatches Studio menu with a Pantone Palette selected Show Column Guides and Show Pixel Selection toggles are missing in the pixel persona New Document dialog: No X to close documents in List View Overprint is not enabled when creating a Global Colour, and disables when edited 'Search' fields do not offer a right click context menu 'New from Clipboard' fails with SVG code on the clipboard AF-854 Stroke Well in Colour Studio cannot be clicked in the centre of the icon AF-2070 Layers Panel- Shift selecting multiple layers after using the Select > Select Bottom/Top command does not function AF-1820 Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer Select all layers keyboard shortcut not set by default  Cannot reapply the highlighted text style to multiple paragraphs (D) Bugs fixed which specifically affected macOS 
Placing any multiple page PDF and setting duplicate to display a different page will always show page 1 when saved and reopened AF-1726 'Characters Including Spaces' only shows as 'Characters' in the Status bar AF-1958 Colour modes in Colour Studio Slider view incorrectly share display settings, causing incorrect colour values to be shown AF-2421 Edit Text Style - Position & Transform baseline jumps to negative value AF-1691 Procedural Texture- 'rgbtoi' function canvas rendering inconsistent with metal enabled AF-1963 Text Style Editor: Setting Outline Stroke style to No Change doesn't appear to fully revert the values Show Column Guides and Show Pixel Selection toggles are missing in the pixel persona AF-2119 Layers Release option in context menu becomes greyed out when you have more than 30 objects selected Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu AF-1666 MS Word doc with page range index references aren't supported AF-1618 CMYK Color sliders in colour chooser inconsistent AF-657 Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip' Trash Can icon on Anchor Panel is too small on macOS Document Setup missing from File menu in Pixel Persona AF-839
  (E) Bugs fixed which specifically affected iPad 
Appearance > Options > Colour Wheel causes a crash  Korean Text does not get input/combined correctly on iPadOS AF-1268 Layers Studio menu missing 'Release' and 'Mask to Below' commands AF-1919 Top ruler is missing when stage manager is active  AF-1338 White flash shows on loading the in-app iPad help     Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu   pop-up dialogs from adjustments do not turn translucent when dragging the slider AF-595 Resource Manager Details page doesn't update automatically   Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip'     iPad edit / document menus conflict with brush settings     CMD+S shortcut doesn't work on the magic keyboard with Zhuyin input AF-669 Able to set negative values on Corner Tool slider 
  If you have reported a bug and it is not yet fixed, please do not report it again. More fixes will be made during the 2.5 beta cycle.

On Windows you will likely need to reset your toolbars (part of CTRL+Run-up) to get the new Line Width tool

Here's a list of some of the bugs which have been fixed in beta build 2.5.0.2402, since 2.4.2 (2371)
Please reply in this forum only to comment on any fixes which are in this list (in particular to let us know if you notice that something we say is fixed isn't!) To report any new bugs please do that against the relevant new feature post, or if unrelated to new functionality in the Other New Bugs and Issues in the Betas forum.
(A) Bug fixes which affected all platforms 
User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Select options in Photo Persona are offset based on bleed AF-1973 Cut and pasting Anchors creates a new Anchor, breaking Cross References to the original Anchor or Paragraph AF-1911 SVG rectangle with width="100%" height="100%" is imported incorrectly as 1x1 AF-1899 Eight digit SVG hex values not being parsed correctly AF-2152 Exporting to PDF with Tagging enabled fails when a text object is visually cropped with a vector mask, inside a group that is visually cropped with a vector mask AF-2112 Resource manager: OpenAsset image status shows as "Pending"  User file- Importing PSD file fails to load and causes high RAM usage AF-2621 Paragraph > Spacing > Leading can be set to a negative value  (B) Bug fixes which affected Desktop (Windows and macOS) 
Blur Tool: blur effect quite subtle if Metal compute acceleration is enabled AF-2268 Text Styles Panel not displaying decorations correctly with CMYK values  Text Style Editor: Shouldn't each Stylistic Set be a On/Off/No Change value rather than a number  Text Style Editor: Caps to Small Caps/Petite Caps shows as Normal Caps in Style Settings  Text Style Editor: Stylistic Sets and Character Variants are not capped to the font max  Text Style Editor: Deleting a Shear or Scale value will set it to 'No Change' but doesn't remove the value from the style  Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options  Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font'  Text Style Editor: Initial Words end characters cannot be set to 'No Change' after modifying Text Style Editor: Bullet List font cannot be removed (or added) by checking 'Use Selected Font' Text Style Editor: Desired Word (and Letter) Spacing is not capped by Minimum and Maximum Word (and Letter) Spacing options AutoCorrect - Capitalise first letter of sentences issue AF-2340 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Running headers and paragraph style that is used in more than one paragraph in a row AF-1940 Hyperlink panel displays the same/first anchor for all if multiple are setup AF-1647 Find & Replace- Searching for words with an Anchor/note/index marker inserted will fail to find the word with 'match whole word' enabled AF-1928 Text styles panel doesn't show the text stroke outline unless you've also set the fill colour on MacOS AF-2186 Editing a TOC heading and updating TOC creates a new anchor incorrectly AF-1912 Develop Persona- Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM | C Lens profile not identified in the lens panel AF-2132 Importing a multi level list into Pub with various text styles AF-1832 HEIC files with transparency import with a solid black fill in place of the transparency  Table Format's text style appears blank if the original style has been renamed  [macOS/Win] Resource Manager panel doesn't update automatically  New Stack with images using 'bottom right' metadata orientation are stacked upside down AF-996 [User File] Placing .xlsx causes app to hang and never recover AF-2374 Linked multi-page PDF files default to Page 1 when re-loading the document, changing passthrough policy subsequently causes an app crash AF-2662 (C) Bugs fixed which specifically affected Windows 
LAB/Greyscale values are showing with decimals AF-2327 Edit Text Style dialog does not always fit on screen & cannot be resized, hiding OK / Cancel options AF-2351 When inserting a Cross-Reference the Search from start files is not active AF-1747 Email Hyperlinks with multiple email addresses (CC & BCC) fail to validate / export AF-1736 Brush Previews are drawn within the Colour Picker Loupe when using the ALT modifier with Brush Tools Clear User Data dialog does not fit on screen for smaller displays AF-2217 Undesired Colour Conversion when using 'Performed by Printer' AF-1633 Buttons disappearing from preflight panel AF-2643 Menu Edit > Fill...: pressing Enter to validate choice/close dialog no longer works AF-2232 Text Style Editor: Outline stroke style doesn't have the ability to set 'No change'. Text Style Editor: Scrollers on Alternates page have a different max value on macOS than Windows [Japanese] Multiple panels show clipping [Spanish] Multiple panels show clipping Edit Text Style: There is a red dot bleeding through under Outline Export Persona: you can lose the Variable and Description fields in the Token flyout Publisher When export to PDF the UI progress bar freezes but the PDF is exported Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer  Edit > Copy Merged is incorrect for Portuguese AF-2188 Difficulty dragging a layer to the top of the stack  AF-2144 Grid and Axis manager always uses 3 decimal point values when adjusting using slider, regardless of UI setting AF-2450 Mouse Scrolling the Angle field in FX does not visually update changes on canvas when cursor is over the Angle value itself AF-2121 Overprint Swatches when Show as List enabled do not visually clip the ellipse used to denote the Overprint state AF-1323 Pressing Esc whilst dragging on Transform panel controls causes the controls to start reacting to mouseover Colour Studio in Slider view offers 16bit / Percentage options for HSL and LAB incorrectly AF-2424 Changing Colour Studio view from Sliders changes colour mode settings applied in Slider view AF-2423 Can't print multiple artboards with bleed AF-2358 Export Palette option is not greyed out in Swatches Studio menu with a Pantone Palette selected Show Column Guides and Show Pixel Selection toggles are missing in the pixel persona New Document dialog: No X to close documents in List View Overprint is not enabled when creating a Global Colour, and disables when edited 'Search' fields do not offer a right click context menu 'New from Clipboard' fails with SVG code on the clipboard AF-854 Stroke Well in Colour Studio cannot be clicked in the centre of the icon AF-2070 Layers Panel- Shift selecting multiple layers after using the Select > Select Bottom/Top command does not function AF-1820 Right click on Masked layer's icon on parent layer does not select mask layer Select all layers keyboard shortcut not set by default  Cannot reapply the highlighted text style to multiple paragraphs (D) Bugs fixed which specifically affected macOS 
Placing any multiple page PDF and setting duplicate to display a different page will always show page 1 when saved and reopened AF-1726 'Characters Including Spaces' only shows as 'Characters' in the Status bar AF-1958 Colour modes in Colour Studio Slider view incorrectly share display settings, causing incorrect colour values to be shown AF-2421 Edit Text Style - Position & Transform baseline jumps to negative value AF-1691 Procedural Texture- 'rgbtoi' function canvas rendering inconsistent with metal enabled AF-1963 Text Style Editor: Setting Outline Stroke style to No Change doesn't appear to fully revert the values Show Column Guides and Show Pixel Selection toggles are missing in the pixel persona AF-2119 Layers Release option in context menu becomes greyed out when you have more than 30 objects selected Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu AF-1666 MS Word doc with page range index references aren't supported AF-1618 CMYK Color sliders in colour chooser inconsistent AF-657 Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip' Trash Can icon on Anchor Panel is too small on macOS Document Setup missing from File menu in Pixel Persona AF-839
  (E) Bugs fixed which specifically affected iPad 
Appearance > Options > Colour Wheel causes a crash  Korean Text does not get input/combined correctly on iPadOS AF-1268 Layers Studio menu missing 'Release' and 'Mask to Below' commands AF-1919 Top ruler is missing when stage manager is active  AF-1338 White flash shows on loading the in-app iPad help     Copy To Category missing from Brush context menu   pop-up dialogs from adjustments do not turn translucent when dragging the slider AF-595 Resource Manager Details page doesn't update automatically   Chinese and Japanese characters fail to show on 'finger tooltip'     iPad edit / document menus conflict with brush settings     CMD+S shortcut doesn't work on the magic keyboard with Zhuyin input AF-669 Able to set negative values on Corner Tool slider 
  If you have reported a bug and it is not yet fixed, please do not report it again. More fixes will be made during the 2.5 beta cycle.

The new smoothing algorithm is fantastic! It's such a pleasure to use now, and with almost (I'm just being very fussy) no clean up required. The new implementation of the auto-close settings is really intuitive. Well done. I'll report back any issues I find with it, but just wanted to acknowledge what an improvement this is.
Addendum: Okay, now I know this is going to sound whiny, but is there anyway to reduce or turn off the smoothing? It's now very difficult to draw a rough, hand-drawn line. I do LOVE the new smoothing algorithm, but there are times where I want my lines to look a little rougher.

IT'S THE NEW CANVA DEAL!!!!!! THE BETA FORUM WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE BY SUBSCRIPTION!!!!!!!!
 

We expect to start 2.5.0 beta during April.

When it starts you'll know because they'll post the details. 

What? This deal was done 3 weeks ago and you seriously think "noticeable progress" (by which I assume you mean new features) will be beta ready by the very next cycle, as a consequence of Canva influence or involvement? It's hopefully starting this week. The contents of 2.5 are no way to judge any influence in my opinion as it's really early days. But I do love your thread and the scope of it's ambition.

The file format is not designed to be small it is designed with fast drawing in mind and image previews of all files are saved. "Linked" in an affinity file mostly means "watch out for possible changes" so the internally saved previews (at a number of sizes/zoom levels) are still there in the saved file, just not the original source file. Without those previews it couldn't draw quickly as you change zoom level.
Perhaps we could offer a slower loading smaller sized "save minimal" that always regenerates the previews of a linked file on each load but that's not what we have currently, sorry.

We are pleased to announce Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and Affinity Publisher 2 are now all updated to version 2.4.2 (for all existing customers on all platforms).
Here is the changelog for the whole suite
And here are the release notes for each application including how to access the update
Affinity Designer 2.4.2 for Windows               ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store [as sandboxed MSIX and unsandboxed MSI/EXE] ) Affinity Designer 2.4.2 for macOS                  ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store ) Affinity Designer 2.4.2 for iOS                        ( Apple iPad Store )
  Affinity Photo 2.4.2 for Windows                    ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store [as sandboxed MSIX and unsandboxed MSI/EXE] ) Affinity Photo 2.4.2 for macOS                       ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store )  Affinity Photo 2.4.2 for iOS                             ( Apple iPad Store ) 
  Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 for Windows              ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store [as sandboxed MSIX and unsandboxed MSI/EXE] ) Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 for macOS                 ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store ) Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 for iOS                       ( Apple iPad Store )  Please follow this thread here to get notified when any new releases are made.

This post covers the main bug fixes that are included in 2.4.2. The fixes are organised by operating system.
(A) Bug fixes which affected all platforms 
Export Preview does not correctly display results when using Rasterise = Nothing AF-2284  .CR2/CR3 images import with desaturated/washed out colours when switching between RAW engines (B) Bug fixes which affected Desktop (Windows and macOS)
Customer .docx file placed within a text frame in a new doc gives "Failed to Save" message. AF-2158 Tables: Update from Selection on Default format enables 'Delete' causing app to crash when deleting format. AF-2142 (C) Bugs fixed which specifically affected Windows
Pixel and Pixel Grid gridlines are thicker in v2.4. AF-2167 Attempt to fix RAW files having Artefacts when opened. AF-2178 Crash when changing between Light and Dark UI with stroke panel and unselected curve on page. Crash - adding pages from files and specifying a section to add. Layers panel: layer drop zones broken. AF-2394 Can't undo live filter or adjustment layer creation. AF-2265 CTRL modifier for boolean Add now makes compounds. AF-2432 Grids fail to instantly update on document when modified. AF-2224 Using a keyboard shortcut for Geometry > Add results in a compound shape as if ctrl \+ add was clicked. AF-2444 Builds on arm devices failing to render documents with OpenCL enabled. AF-2173 (D) Bugs fixed which specifically affected macOS
Crash when dropping Promised files into a document. AF-2264 Threadlock opening documents on some devices. AF-2264 Crash clicking Regular Expressions with the layer name text field active. AF-2139 Mac Apps crash when an image is dragged and dropped from a Zip file. AF-2264 Certain RAW images render in black and white when developed AF-2179 (E) Bugs fixed which specifically affected iPad
"Lessons" tab name changes to "Samples" after opening settings.   Affinity Windows applications include the fixes in lists (A)+(B)+(C)
(A) Bugs fixes affecting All Apps
+ (B) Bug fixes affecting desktop Apps
+ (C) those fixes affecting Windows Affinity macOS applications include the fixes in lists (A)+(B)+(D)
(A) Bugs fixes affecting All Apps
+ (B) Bug fixes affecting desktop Apps
+ (D) Bug fixes affecting macOS Affinity iPad applications include the fixes in list (A)+(E)
(A) Bugs fixes affecting All Apps
+ (E) Bug fixes affecting iPads. If you have reported a bug and it is not yet fixed, please do not report it again. More fixes will be made in the forthcoming 2.5 beta cycle.

What? This deal was done 3 weeks ago and you seriously think "noticeable progress" (by which I assume you mean new features) will be beta ready by the very next cycle, as a consequence of Canva influence or involvement? It's hopefully starting this week. The contents of 2.5 are no way to judge any influence in my opinion as it's really early days. But I do love your thread and the scope of it's ambition.

Is there a separate forum for serious customers who use the software for serious purposes? I ask because every time I visit the forum, I get the impression that there are incredibly many people in this forum who use it more as a warming room and for social purposes. Even this thread about something really pervasive, which can have drastic or significant consequences for several million customers, ends up wildly unserious.
There is more focus and serious users in even smaller open source forums, so I am speechless at the absence of a forum with a network of serious users of the software when the forum is hosted by the company behind the programs. It is just not helpful or trustworthy for allegedly professional software, and the content becomes significantly more serious and focused when you visit Reddit or other places.
Anyway, I'm going back to passive spectator mode, I'm probably not the only one holding back on asking about professional or advanced challenges when it's the same few who always answer here, not the right few in the specific context being asked about, and moreover, not the professional few in that context.
Having stated one's opinion thousands of times does not confer professional expertise. That's what the internet has proven.

What? This deal was done 3 weeks ago and you seriously think "noticeable progress" (by which I assume you mean new features) will be beta ready by the very next cycle, as a consequence of Canva influence or involvement? It's hopefully starting this week. The contents of 2.5 are no way to judge any influence in my opinion as it's really early days. But I do love your thread and the scope of it's ambition.

These tags are simply used by our team to track certain conversations about features / feature requests - they do not indicate that a feature will be added to the apps, or indicate any specific timescale for features once added to a thread.
They are purely an internal tool for our teams metrics and information gathering therefore I would not recommend paying them mind as a user.
Once we have information to share about new and upcoming features, these will almost always be posted first in the New Features beta section of the Forums

Not what I meant @Patrick Connor. I think you misunderstood me or I expressed myself imprecisely.
I don't expect miracles from the next cycle 2.5, but progress that will be felt, even a small one. Because that's what's been missing lately.
First of all, I will pay attention to whether any regressions will appear again. If not, I will already consider it as a noticeable progress🤭.
You see, not excessive expectations, right Patrick?
This is obvious. And I know that it will take some time.
But as your CEO Ash told↓ — great updates are already in the work and nothing will be held back. So he woke up the users appetites🍗.
Patrick your CEO @Ash should be more careful with his words. 
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P.S And here's a short request to you, Patrick, as the head of QA.
Keep pressure on developers to avoid situations like the ones below↓

 

The best place for asking software questions, reporting bugs and requesting features is right here on our forum – this is where we all hang out.
If you haven't already done so make an account to post on these forums (this forum uses an independent login and not the same as an Affinity Store Account).
 
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To contact our Customer Service Team online, Affinity customers can email affinity@serif.com.
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If you have a technical question or problem in using our software, or indeed if you just want some advice, our support is provided online.
For all Affinity apps, please post your question right here on the Affinity Forums.
Members of our own team are actively involved within the forum and you will often receive a pretty quick response. For critical issue support you may be asked to email support staff directly at affinitysupport@serif.com, but please start on the appropriate forums, as the regulars here often answer quickly and correctly.

What? This deal was done 3 weeks ago and you seriously think "noticeable progress" (by which I assume you mean new features) will be beta ready by the very next cycle, as a consequence of Canva influence or involvement? It's hopefully starting this week. The contents of 2.5 are no way to judge any influence in my opinion as it's really early days. But I do love your thread and the scope of it's ambition.

What? This deal was done 3 weeks ago and you seriously think "noticeable progress" (by which I assume you mean new features) will be beta ready by the very next cycle, as a consequence of Canva influence or involvement? It's hopefully starting this week. The contents of 2.5 are no way to judge any influence in my opinion as it's really early days. But I do love your thread and the scope of it's ambition.

Sorry it's not solved for you. We will be starting a 2.5.0 beta soon and I am sure that this can be resolved