Mark Ingram

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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. Updated help and translations Improved performance of importing PDFs Improved OpenAsset support Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents, failing to load because we exceed the maximum number of open file handles (leading to Future Version Error) Fixed copying clipboard data as PDF forcing a conversion to RGBA8 Fixed Convert to Curves on text giving unwanted transforms on child nodes Added a message box on Astro Stacking completion to say if any light frames could not be aligned Fixed rare hang in Info page sampler when hardware acceleration is enabled Improved performance of LUTs when there are less target pixels than LUT entries Improved performance of rendering tiny clips Previous release notes

@drswoboda, just to let you know, I've put in a fix for this now, and it will be available in an upcoming 1.10 beta. Please keep an eye on the beta forum if you'd like to try this out. Thanks for your report.

And generally speaking, bar any mistakes, if it's not in the changelist, it's not been changed.

Hi Pat, I've seen this before, quite a while ago. It was caused by some third party software. Please check the list here - https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/44770-issues-caused-by-third-party-software/ Copy & pasted from that thread: ASUS Sonic / MSI NahemicProblem: User Interface elements can disappear or appear stretchedCause: ASUS Sonic / MSI Nahemic interferes with Direct3D9 rendereringSolution: Start the application with --no-hw-ui flag, or stop the software (this won't affect the driver or functionality of the sound card)https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/49247-16089-issues-tabs-vanishing/&do=findComment&comment=249809

Did you use DDU to uninstall, or just tick the "Clean" option in the NVIDIA installer?

This is against the licence agreement. You need to purchase separate licences for each operating system that you run on.

I posted the following in another thread.

Just to confirm: The crash is within the NVIDIA driver, so there's nothing we can do about this unfortunately. I suggest trying DDU to do a clean uninstall and then reinstall your graphics drivers.

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Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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. Changes Fixed subsequent view openings not honouring the 'Limit zoom to 100%' setting Fixed crash when text doesn't fill the frames Fixed PDF Import crash when nesting many empty layers Fixed IME crashes Fixed potential artefacts in hardware acceleration on brightness/contrast adjustments Fixed TIFF files that have cm as resolution unit are calculated incorrectly Improved the noise in gradient fills Fixed double-applying of blend modes when objects are clipped to the blending object Fixed selection refinement and outputting as new layer with mask on a document with artboards Fixed Glyph browser failing to render bitmap emoji Fixed failure to load files with certain unicode characters in the path Added highlight for individual clauses when editing text via IME Fixed PDF Export failure with gradients that have large numbers of nodes Fixed vector export unnecessarily rasterising clips Previous release notes

New version available.

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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. Fixed subsequent view openings not honouring the 'Limit zoom to 100%' setting Improved performance of Info panel samplers when hardware acceleration is enabled Fixed crash when text doesn't fill the frames Fixed PDF Import crash when nesting many empty layers Fixed IME crashes Fixed potential artefacts in hardware acceleration on brightness/contrast adjustments Fixed lookup of Tamron SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (A025) lens profile Fixed TIFF files that have cm as resolution unit are calculated incorrectly Added EOS 850D CR3 support Fixed creating a new LUT category not displaying the new category Fixed PSB import error Improved memory management of OpenCL resources to try to prevent out of memory errors (resulting in fallback from hardware to software) Fixed Apply Image results on masks Fixed the crop tool to allow portrait ratio presets Fixed incorrect lens identification with Canon lens and extender (identifying as Tamron) Improved the noise in gradient fills Fixed double-applying of blend modes when objects are clipped to the blending object Fixed selection refinement and outputting as new layer with mask on a document with artboards Fixed Astrophotography FITS Bayer pattern Monochrome crash Fixed Glyph browser failing to render bitmap emoji Fixed failure to load files with certain unicode characters in the path Added highlight for individual clauses when editing text via IME Fixed Patch Tool causing artefacts in LAB colour mode Fixed failure to stitch very large panoramas Fixed PDF Export failure with gradients that have large numbers of nodes Fixed vector export unnecessarily rasterising clips Previous release notes

There's no need to argue or discuss the point of AMD support. We are in contact with AMD, who are being very responsive, and they are working on a fix. The issue is that their latest drivers have been re-written for the new architectures, and there's a problem with the OpenCL kernel compiler, as it's now 10X slower than it was before (this would translate to a hang when switching to a new tool for the first time for each app launch). I've provided them with test cases, and I'm in regular contact with their engineers about the problem.

Hi Jason, our office is still closed, and we're all working from home still. Thanks for your patience.

1.9.4 became 1.10.0

This is completely off-topic for this thread. Just because your favourite / required feature hasn't been implemented yet, does not mean that we aren't listening, or not working on them. Many features have been implemented based on the feedback from those forums. In your complaint about the lack of a Knife tool in Designer, you acknowledge that we've added Corner tools and Astrophotography (to Photo), both of which were raised from user feedback. I appreciate that you are desperate for a Knife tool, but we have to prioritise which features to work on, which bugs to fix etc. And it goes without saying that the Photo team is separate to the Designer team, so the addition of Astrophotography had no impact on Designer.

That's because it only supports D3D Feature Level 11.1. That GPU is in the Haswell chip, and the earliest supported Intel GPU is in the Skylake chips.

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Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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. Changes Improved linked documents to try to restore the correct artboard after a linked document has been modified Improved IME text editing Improved support for some lesser used Unicode characters Added Emoji support Fixed SVG export not exporting stretched text correctly when transforms are flattened Fixed SVG import to allow whitespace between "translate" and the following open bracket Fixed RTF export to close small caps correctly Fixed placing an embedded file incorrectly favouring the edited one in memory and not the source file used Previous release notes

New version available.

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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. Allow simultaneous stacking of astro images for different filters Fixed Info Panel not updating properly after opening images Improved Astrophotography to treat calibration masters from iTelescope the same as files from a camera (i.e. the bias is not already subtracted from the master dark) Improved Astrophotography to ignore damaged FITS files Improved Astrophotography for master calibration images created with Maxim DL by iTelescope Fixed Monochromatic Icons not affecting Adjustments Panel Improved IME text editing Improved support for some lesser used Unicode characters Added Emoji support Fixed SVG export not exporting stretched text correctly when transforms are flattened Fixed SVG import to allow whitespace between "translate" and the following open bracket Fixed RTF export to close small caps correctly Fixed placing an embedded file incorrectly favouring the edited one in memory and not the source file used Previous release notes

@emmrecs01 / @walt.farrell I've updated the original post to be 1.9.4.1083 now (was 1.9.4.1079 previously). The new version fixes the OpenCL issues, but as it's a zero-change from the previous beta, there is nothing mentioned in the changelist.

Where are you copying them to?

New version available.

Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer Beta Purpose: Fixes Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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. Further performance improvements Fixed hardware acceleration failing to use multiple devices with identical platform IDs (e.g. integrated and discrete from same manufacturer) Fixed hardware acceleration ignoring certain devices that should have been compatible Fixed Astrophotography Stacking failing with no warning Added ability to name Astrophotography Stack images Fixed crash when WMI is disabled Fixed crash loading user-specific PSD Changed line break algorithm to not break after dashes or hyphens if followed by a digit or close-quote Fixed loading of Nikon D780 and Nikon Z6 images (loading black) Fixed crash undoing replace of missing PDF resource Added multiple drop support to OpenAsset file imports Added additional file drag drop options when holding Alt key Previous release notes