April

Will there be a beta soon that will have the "new" SVG export behavior? With 1.4.1 beta, I get SVG files that look really lousy and are ~500KB+ in size. This compares to about one tenth(!) of the size in the 1.3 betas, where the SVG exports were razor-sharp. I would use the old 1.3 betas, but they no longer work: they all declare that I need a retail version installed for them to work. Apparently having the retail version on 1.4 means I can no longer use 1.3 betas anymore. The fact that I get unusable and gigantic SVG exports with 1.4 means I can't do my job anymore. :(

Yeah, these documents are composed of many other embedded afdesign documents. That's a shame, as the Mac App Store behavior causes my SVGs to all be 3-10x larger, since they're entirely rasterized... and that's at pixelated garbage resolution. Would it be possible to get a link to the last beta version that used the new export method? .15? I really depended on that much decreased export size.

Yeah, going back from .16 to .10 gets me a crystal clear (except for drop shadow'ed text that's rasterized) export. The export size drops from 100KB to 27KB as well.

With this version, my entire SVG export is being rasterized and I have no idea why. Version 10, the previous version I was on, didn't have this problem.

That is great to know and I've definitely taking advantage of it. I just wanted to cast my hat in with retrograde that it's a really confusing and frustrating default. A Leading Unnamed Competitor , for example, binds Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush, Patch Tool, Content-Aware Move Tool, and Red Eye Tool to the shortcut J. But hitting J multiple times just brings you to that spot on the palette, it doesn't switch between them. If you want to toggle between them, you can use Shift-J. I think that setup make way more sense and I never end up on the wrong tool like I do with the Affinity defaults.

I'm having a ton of crashes with 1.3.5.9 and 1.3.5.10. Sent them all in via the usual reporting mechanism; they seem to happen most frequently on closing a document, but it's hard to say what exactly is causing it. Otherwise, the beta is looking great. Still having large SVG sizes when there is an effect on a curve, but otherwise the SVG export is much improved. I will say that I really really dislike that the artboard tool sits under the move tool. I'm constantly switching back and forth from the node (A) and move (V) tools. I always hit "V" before I need the move tool (regardless of where I currently am), and I've ended up in the artboard tool a ton of times when I just meant to be in the move tool. It's making me crazy! I don't mind artboard being under move, but could we pleeeease bind it to a different keyboard shortcut?

Oh hey, you're totally right. For some reason, I feel like that wasn't working before. My bad! So scratch my second comment, but it would still be nice to add a bit to the reminder text. :)

(it would actually probably be nice if the chord was simpler too, like just ⌥+Click to select another object)

When you click on an object with the move tool, it suggests this at the bottom: 'xyz' selected. Drag to move selection. Click another object to select it. Click on an empty area to deselect selection. It would be fantastic if it instead said: 'xyz' selected. Drag to move selection. Click another object to select it. ⇧⌥+Click to select an additional object. Click on an empty area to deselect selection. It took me forever to discover that method of selecting multiple objects, and would have saved me a ton of time when I was first learning Affinity. Thanks so much!