Mark Ingram

Can you delete that file, then try to get the application to crash again? Before re-launching the application after the crash, can you check that directory, and if there is a crash report in there, can you attach it to this thread?

Do you have any crash reports in %APPDATA%\Affinity\Designer\1.0 (Beta)\CrashReports?

1.5.0.25 (RC1) is now available.

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Release Candidate 1 Purpose: Stability Requirements: None As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity Designer 1.5 cannot be opened in Affinity Photo 1.4, which means that although files created with the Windows beta can be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer (currently on 1.5.1) they cannot be opened in the latest Mac App Store versions Affinity Photo, instead you will need the latest macOS 1.5 beta. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed sporadic crash when closing the application Fixed left click and drag on popup sliders so they automatically close (same as macOS version) Fixed changing a slice output from raster to vector not re-adding the name or initialising the dialog correctly Fixed User Variables not exporting making it possible to create files from Export Persona with no filename Fixed Export Persona Path Components dialog containing text that should not be present Fixed right clicking the brushes list to not select the brush Fixed floating document windows remaining on top after switching to another application Fixed being able to edit registration colour swatch Fixed sporadic crash when starting a second instance, if the first instance had crashed Fixed sporadic crash when launching URLs when Windows can't find a suitable application to use Fixed sporadic crash when attempting to show a panel context menu for panels that shouldn't have a menu Fixed context bar not updating for marquee selection Fixed sporadic crash when closing documents Fixed crash on Windows 7 & 8 when scrolling the mouse wheel during the splash screen Fixed PSD import of grey colours Changed multi-page PDF export to be for whole documents, and selections of only artboards (if there is anything else in the selection, it will create a single page PDF of the selected area) Fixed slices with invalid filenames failing to export Fixed Show Selection in Layers Panel not expanding groups when individual object is selected Fixed file extensions not getting stripped from file names when using Save As Fixed Corner types to be disabled until a node is selected Fixed double clicking an already applied Text Style will re-apply it before displaying the Edit Text Style dialog Fixed being unable to apply black/grey/white/none swatch if already highlighted Fixed opening program after toggling UI bringing panels back, but leaving the toggle in unusable state Fixed being unable to create snapshots Fixed Preferences > Performance not saving Fixed Cog shape to allow more than 48 teeth Improved performance of non-OpenType fonts

We aim for consistency with the macOS version, but also try to conform to normal Windows user experiences where it makes sense.

Hi, can you provide a video of what you're seeing? I can type text, change opacity, change fill colour, etc.

Hi, I use Designer on my laptop every day and have never noticed it switching my brightness settings (we don't have anything in the code which does this). Perhaps you have a power setting that does this?

Moving to Questions forum.

It seems like this is a problem with a corrupt package in Windows: http://superuser.com/questions/460773/vs2010-sp1-installation-the-feature-you-are-trying-to-use-is-on-a-network-reso

Hi, thanks for attaching the profile. We've had a look at it, and it indeed appears to be a broken profile. I have no idea why Samsung ship a broken profile, clearly they've never tested it on anything that actually does colour profiling...

We use Right-Click for the fourth modifier on Windows, which probably wouldn't work well in this scenario! Like you say, we don't have another key available to us, unfortunately.

I appreciate this doesn't help your situation, but the thumbnail appears fine for me. There is a command to register the thumbnail provider on the command line, I'll hunt it out and get you to try it.

Sorry TomR, I've not had an email from the support account letting me know that they've arrived! I'll try to find out what's going on. Alternatively, you can PM me a link via the forum, and I will download it myself.

Xara probably puts something on the clipboard which we're not handling properly. If you go to Edit > Paste Special it will show the formats that are on the clipboard, so we can try to support them. The same with Freehand's clipboard formats.

Just out of interest, do you have the following preference enabled?

Thanks. We've managed to reproduce the same crash once this morning, but struggling to do it again. I'll keep you updated.

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling Designer?

Moving to Questions forum.

Do you have another crash report that you could upload for build 24?

Moving to Feature Requests forum.

Do you have a document that you can provide which would help to reproduce these problems? As I can't reproduce anything here.

Try going to the View > Show Tools menu item. Do you remember turning the tools off?

1.5.0.24 is now available.

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: None As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.5 cannot be opened in 1.4, which means files created with the Windows beta cannot be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer, instead you will need the latest macOS beta. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed crash when pressing ALT+Spacebar on a floating window Fixed crash using Wacom Bamboo on external display (thanks federix) Fixed middle mouse button panning becoming stuck Fixed PDF import of default widths for Japanese fonts Fixed printers marks smaller borders when bleeds are unequal Added publisher details to Add/Remove Programs Added keyboard support to text styles combobox on the context toolbar Fixed crash when exporting to an SMB share from Export Persona Fixed PDF export failing when adding negative value to Phase for a dashed stroke Fixed embedded documents incorrectly displaying their path when they are edited Fixed 'PDF Information' font changes Fixed crash when making no selection with the 'Show selection in layer panel' option enabled Added document loading message Fixed being able to edit a registration colour by double clicking Fixed crash when clicking on swatch panel after editing a swatch Fixed swatches saved with non-default Opacity/Noise values not being applied to objects correctly Added reporting of warnings when loading PSD files Fixed loading of PSD files with noise gradients (but will just ignore the noise gradients as we can't reproduce them) Fixed measuring between siblings inside groups and containers (can also measure immediate children of a container, and between the selected object and it's ancestors) Fixed preview of masks in Layers panel Fixed Customise Toolbar context menu being available during customisation Fixed Asset panel category changing when the panel is docked/undocked Fixed Character panel not disabling controls when no document is available

Moving to Questions forum.