Ken Cope

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Status: Customer Beta (Release Candidate)
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 registration failure (will now use the browser to complete registration, rather than attempt it in-app) Fixed corrupt images when entering Photoshop plugins, with hardware acceleration enabled Updated help Previous release notes

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 registration failure (will now use the browser to complete registration, rather than attempt it in-app) Updated help Previous release notes
 

Additional Cameras supported by SerifLabs RAW engine in all Affinity Photo Desktop 1.10.5 builds (going forward)
DJI Mavic Air 2S Fujifilm GFX 50S II GFX 100S X-E4 GoPro HERO9 HERO10 Nikon Z fc Olympus E-P7 Panasonic DC-GH5 Mark II Pentax K3 Mark III Ricoh GR IIIx Sony A1 (ILCE-1) A7R-IIIA (ILCE-7RM3A) A7R-IVA (ILCE-7RM4A) ZV-E10 Multiple Camera Phones added Canon EOS M50 Mark II (was supported but not listed in camera list)

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 background layer being blurred when re-opening an afphoto file Fixed artefacts on export of documents with a Live Radial Blur Fixed Overlay Paint and Erase Tools in Develop Persona not painting correctly at small brush sizes Fixed Overlay Paint Brush starting at the edge of canvas Updated SerifLabs RAW (updated libraw to 202110) Previous release notes

We are pleased to announce Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher on macOS and Windows are now all updated to version 1.10.3 (for all new and existing customers).
Here are links to the release notes
Affinity Designer 1.10.3 for Windows               ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store ) Affinity Designer 1.10.3 for macOS                  ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store ) Affinity Designer 1.10.3 for iOS                        ( Apple iPad Store )
  Affinity Photo 1.10.3 for Windows                    ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store ) Affinity Photo 1.10.3 for macOS                       ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store )  Affinity Photo 1.10.3 for iOS                             ( Apple iPad Store ) 
  Affinity Publisher 1.10.3 for Windows              ( Microsoft Store and Affinity Store ) Affinity Publisher 1.10.3 for macOS                 ( Mac App Store and Affinity Store ) Please follow this thread here to get notified when any new releases are made

Click here to download the latest beta Currently there is no beta more recent than the 1.10.4 release
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. 

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Fixed Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards Fixed Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools Fixed Live Filters with Radius or Distance spuriously changing the Azimuth anticlockwise Previous release notes

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 Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards Fixed Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools Previous release notes

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.2.1187 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.10.1 version recently released to all customers. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the release version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer. Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply. Vector import (SVG, IDML etc) can be created at incorrect size. Space incorrectly gets added to text on clipboard if you double click a word to highlight. Fixed bug when deleting multiple pinned objects at the same time. Other assorted small fixes. Previous Beta Release Notes
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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.
Fixed Toggling 'Quick Mask' not updating until you toggle the mask off and on again Fixed 'Overlay Paint' and 'Overlay Erase' tools in Develop Persona not painting with correct spacing Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer Fixed vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size Fixed 16-bit 'Saturation blend mode' displaying white pixels Fixed crash painting on empty pattern layer Fixed 'Levels' > 'Output black and white' using the same values when changing channels Fixed files losing quality after a merge or export Fixed potential crash opening an EXR document Fixed crash opening multiple FITS files at once Fixed DNG files not being displayed in Develop Persona with Hardware Acceleration enabled Fixed Astrophotography to cope with unicode file paths Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply Fixed some occassionally fonts failing to be recognised at startup Fixed Borderless printing having a border Improved 'Uninstall Pack' flow to auto-select the pack Fixed 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click Fixed hang on My Account page  Fixed 'Defringe' > 'Also remove complementary colour' Fixed crash when closing the application Fixed potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font Fixed document pixel resolution being stored in the wrong format within XMP metadata (breaks later parsing of the same data; hides the values from the metadata panel's 'Detail' view)  Increased maximum defringe radius Fixed 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc.  Fixed Astrophotography Stack failing on some DNG's with no warning Improved Astrophotography 'Make Align Layers By Stars' to work for layers in transformed groups  Previous release notes

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 document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer Fixed vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply Fixed some occassionally fonts failing to be recognised at startup Fixed Borderless printing having a border Fixed 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click Fixed hang on My Account page  Fixed crash when closing the application Fixed potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font Fixed 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc.  Previous release notes

Status: Beta
Purpose: Compatibility / Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.2.1156 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.10.1 version recently released to all customers. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the release version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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Issues with the Affinity Web Services 'My Account' Page 'Replace' in the Resource Manager converts Linked to Embedded Invalid URL hyperlinks prevent PDF export Other assorted minor fixes Affinity Publisher 1.10.1 Release Notes
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Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1127 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer.
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Fixed crashes when pasting between documents with different colour formats Assorted minor fixes and improvements Localisation updates Help updates Previous Release Notes
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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.
Fixed Adjustment enclosures which affect alpha (curves, levels) not working Fixed problem when pasting raster nodes from one document to another with a different format Fixed adjustment histograms Fixed crash when adding raster formats to Astrophotography Lights Previous release notes

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. 

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Changes
Added 'Select Parent', 'Select Top', and 'Select Bottom' to main menu Changed behaviour of Select All when Edit All Layers is disabled - if you’re inside a group, it will now Select All within the group Fixed PDF passthrough getting rasterised if vector cropped  Previous release notes

Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1115 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer.
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Prevented unnecessary duplication of placed documents on IDML import Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents failing to load (The maximum number of allowed open file handles was being exceeded leading to erroneous 'Future Version Error') Improved OpenAsset support Localisation updates Help updates Previous Release Notes
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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

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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
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 Improved performance of rendering tiny clips Previous release notes

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

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

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1103 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer.
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Fixed crash composing text under certain circumstances
IDML Import - Fixed issue where text could disappear with certain files
PDF Import - Fixed crash for specific file where the importer was creating many nested empty layers unnecessarily
Vector Export - Simplify gradient fills that have been created with many stops that could crash when exporting
Vector Export - Fixed instance where clipped items were being rasterised unnecessarily
Fixed issue where 'Next Style' could fail to work when entering text
Fixed possible crash when auto-flowing text into master based text frames 
Character Panel - Kerning and Tracking scroll increments are inconsistent
Character Panel-  Baseline field up/down arrows function incorrectly using comma decimals.
Fixed issue where 'Limit zoom to 100%' could fail to apply
Fixed crashes with Japanese IME under certain circumstances
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Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1098 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer.
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Major Improvements
Defer more text composition tasks until required. This results in a notable increase in speed when editing long stories.
General
Fix for double apply of Blend Mode in nodes with clipped children
Fix loading files from paths containing decomposed Unicode
Master Pages
When migrating masters take account of editability of candidate parents. Strengthened candidate name matching to disallow set and mismatched names
Render and Performance
Eliminated inefficiency in placed PDF cache handling
Improved Pages Panel page thumbnail rendering / caching
Fixed possible memory leak on Document Close
Text
Glyph Browser was showing corruption / failing to render emoji
Improve performance of Glyph Browser with emoji fonts by using appropriate resolution bitmaps
Text Style panel samples can be poor quality
Inline pinned nodes were exporting as a spurious character
Highlight individual clauses when IME editing
Resource Manager
Resource Manager cosmetic tweaks, prevented removal of all columns etc
Export
PDF Export - Reduced file export size when multiple copies of the same passthrough PDF are present
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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

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

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1085 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer.
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Text
- Added Emoji support
- Improved Windows IME support for Chinese / Japanese text entry
Import / Export
- IDML Import - fixes for specific documents
- IDML Import - improved text style grouping and added import of keyboard shortcuts
- SVG Import - Parser improvements for whitespace handling
- SVG Export - Fix for export of stretched text when transforms are flattened
- RTF Import - Fixed specific crash if line breaks occurred in the vicinity of ligatures
- RTF Export - improved support for Unicode characters above 64k
- RTF Export - wasn't closing small caps correctly
Resources
- Improved performance of Resource Manager for documents containing of placed documents
- Placing an embedded document was incorrectly favouring any currently placed instance over the source file
- EPS files can now be 'Made Linked' in Resource Manager if the original source file is present
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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

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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