VIPStephan

Sorry for hijacking this thread but my “request” is related to this. I find it a little odd that the vector shape tools (rectangle, ellipse, etc.) in Draw persona are separate. In Fireworks, from where I’m coming, the vector shapes were in their own subset group (see attached image), and you could cycle through them by repeatingly pressing the shortcut key. And see the thin line between the first three tools and the rest of them? Only to the first three the shortcut key was assigned – that is kind of similar to how AD currently works. So, yeah, I would also find it very useful if one could create their own tool groups/subsets.

I don’t know if such thing exists already, at least I haven’t found it yet: In Fireworks there is a “select behind” tool in the same place (i. e. as “subset item”) as the default select tool (what you call “Move” tool). I’ve always had a hard time selecting objects behind other objects in Affinity Designer. In Fireworks, with that tool, if first selects the topmost object, and then if you click in the same place it selects the next object behind the one currently selected, and then the next one behind, and so forth. How about this?

Yeah, I agree. That sounds like something really useful.

If I have the layer opacity slider in the side panel open and switch to another application, AD disappears in the background but the slider stays visible and on top of everything.

It might seem so obvious that I almost don’t even dare to bring this up but in the latest beta, when I repeatingly hit ‘M’ to cycle through the vector shape tools it just goes back and forth between the two last selected tools. So, let’s say I have the default selection/move tool selected and hit ‘M’ repeatedly, it switches back and forth between the rounded rectangle tool and the move tool. That is not what I expect and not what it does in the current official version.

Sounds like you have the color of the window background the same as the background color of the canvas/artboard (i. e. both white). Go into the general settings > User Interface, and then change the background gray level to something lower than you currently have.

Oh well, it works in the beta version. Thanks.

Oooooh, I see now. I had to scroll down in that pane. That wasn’t obvious at all because the quality select was positioned nicely at the bottom that it appeared to be the last item there. Thanks a lot, Dave.

I just bought AD brand new, never used before (except the trial version which is a separate app, I figure). It happened to be a PNG, indeed. It’s not happening with any PNG, just a specific one, as I just found. I have a Word document from which I saved an image to my desktop. Opening this image immediately crashes AD. Other images work fine for some reason. It also works if I open that image in Preview (or any other image editing software), re-export/save it from there, and then open it in AD. Unfortunately I just have one PNG in that Word document so I can’t compare it with others. JPGs work fine. Below is the crash report (can’t post the entire report; post too long). Process: Affinity Designer [824] Path: /Applications/Affinity Designer.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Designer Identifier: com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner Version: 1.3.5 (1.3.6) App Item ID: 824171161 App External ID: 813046220 Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: ??? [1] Responsible: Affinity Designer [824] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2015-10-13 12:11:05.942 +0200 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.11 (15A284) Report Version: 11 Anonymous UUID: 7897D58D-F338-3871-BD83-A70675B9894C Sleep/Wake UUID: 523A4C33-BC57-474C-9FFE-D4126F550B9D Time Awake Since Boot: 9800 seconds Time Since Wake: 9500 seconds System Integrity Protection: enabled Crashed Thread: 5 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000003 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY VM Regions Near 0x3: --> __TEXT 00000001018a6000-0000000101939000 [ 588K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Affinity Designer.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Designer Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf18f8 -[NSKeyedUnarchiver error] + 0 1 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf83ef -[NSKeyedUnarchiver decodeBoolForKey:] + 102 2 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff9500355f -[NSMenuItem initWithCoder:] + 357 3 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf2603 _decodeObjectBinary + 2743 4 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf369d -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _decodeArrayOfObjectsForKey:] + 1469 5 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf7f2c -[NSArray(NSArray) initWithCoder:] + 203 6 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf2603 _decodeObjectBinary + 2743 7 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf1a45 _decodeObject + 281 8 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff950068dd -[NSMenu initWithCoder:] + 156 9 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf2603 _decodeObjectBinary + 2743 10 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf1a45 _decodeObject + 281 11 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff95003224 -[NSNibConnector initWithCoder:] + 68 12 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff950030d5 -[NSNibOutletConnector initWithCoder:] + 75 13 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf2603 _decodeObjectBinary + 2743 14 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf369d -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _decodeArrayOfObjectsForKey:] + 1469 15 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf7f2c -[NSArray(NSArray) initWithCoder:] + 203 16 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf2603 _decodeObjectBinary + 2743 17 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf1a45 _decodeObject + 281 18 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff95001d86 -[NSIBObjectData initWithCoder:] + 200 19 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf2603 _decodeObjectBinary + 2743 20 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93cf1a45 _decodeObject + 281 21 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff9511b3b5 -[NSNib _instantiateNibWithExternalNameTable:options:] + 591 22 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff953dcc5c -[NSNib instantiateNibWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 212 23 com.seriflabs.libcocoaui 0x000000010219cc98 -[AppController setupMenubar] + 232 24 com.seriflabs.libcocoaui 0x000000010219d121 -[AppController setupWorkspace:] + 145 25 com.seriflabs.libcocoaui 0x000000010218ac7b -[ApplicationDelegate applicationDidFinishLaunching:] + 155 26 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9ae79a0c __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12 27 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9ae7999f ___CFXRegistrationPost_block_invoke + 63 28 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9ae79917 _CFXRegistrationPost + 407 29 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9ae79682 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke + 50 30 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9ae36442 -[_CFXNotificationRegistrar find:object:observer:enumerator:] + 1922 31 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9ae35695 _CFXNotificationPost + 693 32 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93ce831a -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 66 33 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff95189045 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 297 34 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff95188daf -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 203 35 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff95275420 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenDocumentsForURLs:] + 356 36 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff95043af3 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 478 37 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93d36bbd -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 290 38 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff93d36a37 _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 102 39 com.apple.AE 0x00007fff995871b5 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned int, unsigned char*) + 531 40 com.apple.AE 0x00007fff99586f3c dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 31 41 com.apple.AE 0x00007fff99586e58 aeProcessAppleEvent + 288 42 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cd3bef5 AEProcessAppleEvent + 55 43 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff9503f3d4 _DPSNextEvent + 2245 44 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff9503e369 -[NSApplication _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 454 45 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff95032ecc -[NSApplication run] + 682 46 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff94ffc162 NSApplicationMain + 1176 47 com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner 0x00000001018a7f14 0x1018a6000 + 7956 Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9ce80f8e __psynch_mutexwait + 10 1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce62e5f _pthread_mutex_lock_wait + 89 2 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce60626 _pthread_mutex_lock_slow + 300 3 liblibraster.dylib 0x000000010982b14c Raster::PNGBase::BaseConstPixelAccessor::BaseConstPixelAccessor(Raster::PNGBase const*, int, int) + 76 4 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0f3f7 void Raster::PixelProcessor<Raster::Horizontal>::Process<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::X1, Raster::X2, Raster::X3, Raster::X4, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5> const*, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>*, Raster::Copy&, Kernel::RectT<int>, Raster::IdentityMask::Params const*, Raster::IdentityTransform::Params const*, Raster::IdentitySampler::Params const*, Raster::NormalBlend::Params const*) + 183 5 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0f2e5 void Raster::Software<Raster::Multithreaded>::WorkUnit<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::X1, Raster::X2, Raster::X3, Raster::X4, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(void*, unsigned long) + 101 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9421e029 _dispatch_client_callout2 + 8 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9421df7a _dispatch_apply_invoke + 87 8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420c453 _dispatch_client_callout + 8 9 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff942102e3 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 1890 10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420fb48 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91 11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce624f2 _pthread_wqthread + 1129 12 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce60375 start_wqthread + 13 Thread 2:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9ce820a2 kevent_qos + 10 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff942121ad _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 216 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff94211e15 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52 Thread 3:: Dispatch queue: NSCGSDisableUpdates 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9ce7bc96 mach_msg_trap + 10 1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9ce7b0d7 mach_msg + 55 2 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff9b5ea890 _CGSReenableUpdateForConnection + 92 3 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff9b5ea571 CGSReenableUpdateToken + 469 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff942178ff _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420c453 _dispatch_client_callout + 8 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff94211083 _dispatch_queue_drain + 754 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff942176c9 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 549 8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420c453 _dispatch_client_callout + 8 9 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff942102e3 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 1890 10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420fb48 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91 11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce624f2 _pthread_wqthread + 1129 12 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce60375 start_wqthread + 13 Thread 4:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos 0 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x00007fff8c92bed5 _platform_bzero$VARIANT$Ivybridge + 85 1 liblibraster.dylib 0x000000010982d958 Raster::Block::GetMutableBuffer() + 536 2 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010a32544e Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>::HomogenousChannelAccessor<Raster::AllChannels>::_FullLookup(int, int) + 1582 3 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0f522 void Raster::PixelProcessor<Raster::Horizontal>::Process<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::X1, Raster::X2, Raster::X3, Raster::X4, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5> const*, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>*, Raster::Copy&, Kernel::RectT<int>, Raster::IdentityMask::Params const*, Raster::IdentityTransform::Params const*, Raster::IdentitySampler::Params const*, Raster::NormalBlend::Params const*) + 482 4 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0f2e5 void Raster::Software<Raster::Multithreaded>::WorkUnit<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::X1, Raster::X2, Raster::X3, Raster::X4, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(void*, unsigned long) + 101 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9421e029 _dispatch_client_callout2 + 8 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9421df7a _dispatch_apply_invoke + 87 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420c453 _dispatch_client_callout + 8 8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff942102e3 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 1890 9 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420fb48 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91 10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce624f2 _pthread_wqthread + 1129 11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce60375 start_wqthread + 13 Thread 5 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos 0 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0fa59 Raster::IdentitySampler::Sampler<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Safe, Raster::IdentityTransform>::SpanRead(Raster::InterleavedPixelSpan<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>&) + 57 1 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0f67c void Raster::PixelProcessor<Raster::Horizontal>::Process<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::X1, Raster::X2, Raster::X3, Raster::X4, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5> const*, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>*, Raster::Copy&, Kernel::RectT<int>, Raster::IdentityMask::Params const*, Raster::IdentityTransform::Params const*, Raster::IdentitySampler::Params const*, Raster::NormalBlend::Params const*) + 828 2 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0f2e5 void Raster::Software<Raster::Multithreaded>::WorkUnit<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::X1, Raster::X2, Raster::X3, Raster::X4, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(void*, unsigned long) + 101 3 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9421e029 _dispatch_client_callout2 + 8 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9421df7a _dispatch_apply_invoke + 87 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9421de1f dispatch_apply_f + 753 6 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0f25e void Raster::Software<Raster::Multithreaded>::Process<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::X1, Raster::X2, Raster::X3, Raster::X4, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5> const*, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>*, Raster::Copy&, Kernel::RectT<int>, Raster::IdentityMask::Params const*, Raster::IdentityTransform::Params const*, Raster::IdentitySampler::Params const*, Raster::NormalBlend::Params const*) + 1678 7 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010b1fbfc4 void Raster::DynamicFile::ExecuteSource<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::DynamicsAreSameFormatAndNotMasksHint, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::DynamicFile, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>*, Raster::DynamicFile const*, Raster::Copy::Params*, Raster::IdentityMask::Params const*, Raster::IdentityTransform::Params const*, Raster::IdentitySampler::Params const*, Raster::Safe::Params const*, Raster::NormalBlend::Params const*) + 1796 8 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010b1d8b61 void Raster::DynamicBase<Raster::DynamicBitmap>::ExecuteDestNotMask<Raster::DynamicsAreSameFormatAndNotMasksHint, Raster::DynamicBitmap, Raster::DynamicFile, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(Raster::DynamicBitmap*, Raster::DynamicFile const*, Raster::Copy::Params*, Raster::IdentityMask::Params const*, Raster::IdentityTransform::Params const*, Raster::IdentitySampler::Params const*, Raster::Safe::Params const*, Raster::NormalBlend::Params const*) + 81 9 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000011298b965 DocumentController::LoadDocumentI(Kernel::StringT<Kernel::TEncUtf8> const&, bool, bool, bool, Kernel::Counted<LoadDocumentOptions const>, OpenDocumentFailedNotification&) + 10693 10 liblibpersona.dylib 0x0000000112988f28 DocumentController::LoadDocument(Kernel::StringT<Kernel::TEncUtf8> const&, bool, bool, Kernel::Counted<LoadDocumentOptions const>, OpenDocumentFailedNotification&) + 56 11 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010b22d747 LoadDocumentCommand::Do() + 327 12 liblibpersona.dylib 0x00000001129aba32 PersonaController::StaticDoCommand(void*) + 50 13 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420c453 _dispatch_client_callout + 8 14 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff942102e3 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 1890 15 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420fb48 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91 16 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce624f2 _pthread_wqthread + 1129 17 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce60375 start_wqthread + 13 Thread 6:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9ce80f8e __psynch_mutexwait + 10 1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce62e5f _pthread_mutex_lock_wait + 89 2 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce60626 _pthread_mutex_lock_slow + 300 3 liblibraster.dylib 0x000000010982b14c Raster::PNGBase::BaseConstPixelAccessor::BaseConstPixelAccessor(Raster::PNGBase const*, int, int) + 76 4 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0f3f7 void Raster::PixelProcessor<Raster::Horizontal>::Process<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::X1, Raster::X2, Raster::X3, Raster::X4, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5> const*, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>*, Raster::Copy&, Kernel::RectT<int>, Raster::IdentityMask::Params const*, Raster::IdentityTransform::Params const*, Raster::IdentitySampler::Params const*, Raster::NormalBlend::Params const*) + 183 5 liblibpersona.dylib 0x000000010aa0f2e5 void Raster::Software<Raster::Multithreaded>::WorkUnit<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5, Raster::X1, Raster::X2, Raster::X3, Raster::X4, Raster::X5, Raster::PNG<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Bitmap<Raster::Red8, Raster::Green8, Raster::Blue8, Raster::Alpha8, Raster::X5>, Raster::Copy, Raster::IdentityMask, Raster::IdentitySampler, Raster::IdentityTransform, Raster::Safe, Raster::NormalBlend>(void*, unsigned long) + 101 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9421e029 _dispatch_client_callout2 + 8 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9421df7a _dispatch_apply_invoke + 87 8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420c453 _dispatch_client_callout + 8 9 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff942102e3 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 1890 10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9420fb48 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91 11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce624f2 _pthread_wqthread + 1129 12 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9ce60375 start_wqthread + 13 Thread 5 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit): rax: 0x0000000000000003 rbx: 0x0000000000000001 rcx: 0x0000000000000001 rdx: 0x0000000000000000 rdi: 0x000070000021c328 rsi: 0x000070000021c2a0 rbp: 0x000070000021c250 rsp: 0x000070000021c240 r8: 0x0000000000000001 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000000 r11: 0x0000000000000193 r12: 0x0000000000000020 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x000070000021c480 r15: 0x0000000000000000 rip: 0x000000010aa0fa59 rfl: 0x0000000000010202 cr2: 0x0000700000218ff8 Logical CPU: 0 Error Code: 0x0200012d Trap Number: 133

Is there any way to export interlaced images, like progressive JPEG? Can’t find anything in the export persona mode. That would be really useful for web export.

I’m trying to open or place an image with/in Affinity Designer and it immediately crashes. What’s up with that? I can send you a crash report if you like (I’ve sent them to Apple, too, though).

Is this something similar to what I have suggested earlier?

So, I finally purchased Affinity Designer, albeit reluctantly, via the App store, after having tried the trial version. Now I seem to have a completely new and unrelated application on my computer that doesn’t use any of the settings I’ve set in the trial version. Is there any way to use those? I can’t find anything in the Application Support directory where other software usually stores preferences etc. And isn’t there a better/more convenient way to handle this? I mean, the trial version is already a fully functional program, and you’d just have to have a “register” button or something like that, like every other software I’ve used so far. It makes me uncomfortable, not knowing and being able to choose where the App Store installs software. While the application is awesome this entire process really was not a pleasant experience for me.

How about a Mac mini with a third-party monitor that is better than an Apple one but for a fraction of the price? Should be sufficient for the Affinity applications.

I’m sorry that I always bring Fireworks as comparison but its workflow was/is just so convenient. Here is another one: When you had guides shown and the default selection tool (V) selected, pressing the Shift key showed the distance between those guides between which the cursor was placed. I’d love to see that in AD, too.

I also like a lighter UI. Fireworks has it and I don’t know if I’m just so used to it but the dark UI feels awkward – like an application that wasn’t specifically designed for Apple’s OS. I also don’t understand why one wouldn’t use the user interface API the OS provides; I never understood, for example, why Adobe had to introduce their own design for their installers instead of using the native one by Apple. Same with the application UI for Affinity Designer.

Nice, I’m looking forward to that. As Fireworks user I’m also used to having multiple pages. That also makes sense when designing websites.

Well, actually you can still edit vector shapes with a minor workaround: add points on the shape where you want to cut it and then use the “open curve” (or whatever it says in English; I have a different language) from the context panel. You can then delete the point(s) you want to get rid of and there you go, you’ve cut your shape.

If I remember correctly, the next update will feature multiple artboards. I suppose that’s as close as you get to “pages”. Coming from Fireworks and designing websites I really miss the concept of “pages” but I figured that AD is currently more leaning towards being an alternative to Adobe Illustrator than Fireworks. Wenn ich mich richtig erinnere, dann wird es in der nächsten aktualisierten Version eine Funktion für mehrere Zeichenflächen geben. Das kommt noch am nächsten an „Seiten“ heran. Als hauptsächlich Webseiten gestaltender Fireworks-Nutzer vermisse ich das Konzept der „Seiten“ aber ich denke, dass AD momentan eher dazu neigt, eine Alternative für Adobe Illustrator zu sein als zu Fireworks.

I had the need for a charcoal textured vector line and found no such texture in the default brushes that come with AD, so I watched some tutorials on creating my own textured vector brush. I did succeed, I might say, but have the feeling there are a few improvements the developers could make: I’d like an option to keep the size of the texture the same when changing the stroke size. Currently the texture (i. e. the image it’s based on) is scaling with the brush. I needed a relatively thin charcoal-style line but the texture was almost not visible anymore, so I had to go back an forth with exporting the properly sized image to use as texture for the exact stroke size I want. That’s not very flexible. Ideally a separate option to scale the texture inside the stroke would be awesome. And one can check a checkbox to either scale with stroke or stay as is. And related to that, I’d appreciate if actual vector graphics could be used as texture images for vector brushes, so that it doesn’t look blurry if the stroke size (and the pattern that is scaled with it) gets larger than the original image. Sorry if it turns out that there is already something like this implemented and I just didn’t see it. In that case kindly point me in the right direction.

Man, you guys are fast with your responses. Don’t you have anything else to do? :P Well, that sucks that there is no other way to obtain the software. I noticed that I can’t even pay with PayPal on the Crap Store. There is no way I’m using a credit card. Gonna have to buy an iTunes gift card or whatever. It might be convenient for you to just provide the software via the App Store but the lengths I have to go through just to get it the way I want aren’t very customer friendly.

I’d like to buy Affinity Designer but I despise the App Store. Is there any way to purchase and download it directly from you (Serif)? I’d rather see my money completely spent on your software than for Apple’s App Store fees. And I’d also like to avoid the App Store for privacy reasons.

Me too! That’s similar to my post at https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/842-affinity-designer-feature-roadmap/?p=59690(accidentally posted in the wrong section. I see that this post here is already more than a year old. Perhaps the feature is already there but I’ve missed it?

Coming from Fireworks I’m used to being able to double click a guide line where a modal box opens that lets me enter a numeric pixel value to position it precisely (horizontally or vertically, depending on the guide). I’d like to have that in AD, too.