Mark Harris
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To be clear -- this issue may be present in macOS 12.x... but this is a problem w/ the app and development team; and it clearly isn't getting the appropriate attention. I've lost work due to this issue. I have to imagine that Serif no longer has any development staff. At this point, the Adobe price-point makes sense.
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@Zheehau If you are using the symbols feature, there is a reported/known issue with macOS 12 (since Oct.). It's reproducible and, depending on the complexity of your documents, causes the application to become unusable for many of us. Perhaps you're experiencing something similar -- or something under the hood is causing a similar symptom. For what it's worth -- I'm not experiencing issues like this in any other applications. Moreover, nearly all of my other design applications have been updated multiple times since late Oct. Serif is an outlier at this point.
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Organize Symbols and Global Symbols.
Mark Harris replied to Mr. K's topic in Older Feedback & Suggestion Posts
@RADAR products It's likely that adding symbols as assets won't work the way you're hoping. Managing them can/will be a nightmare if your work is iterative between the documents. You should also be careful: The symbols feature of the current Affinity Designer (1.10.4) has some known issues on macOS Monterey. Using the symbols feature may cause the application to become unusable -- specifically, the application can become extremely latent and unresponsive when using complex or extensive symbols. The issues were reported and confirmed (in ~late Oct.), but haven't been addressed to this point. Hopefully they will be resolved in the near future; as well as some of the lingering and outstanding enhancement requests. -
Removing symbols defeats the purpose of this functionality entirely -- and is not a workaround for anyone using these features extensively. Regardless of the technical issue(s) described here, the Symbols feature is missing some rather basic features -- e.g. sorting, searching, auditing/reporting instances, deferred rendering, etc. Hopefully this receives the attention that it deserves very soon.
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Update: The issue appears to be related to Symbols. After uninstalling, and cleaning up the application leftovers, I launched the app and did not experience issues -- *until I updated my Studio settings to include Symbols. It is reproducible on my machine. Unfortunately, I rely on these heavily... so again, the application is unusable at this time.