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I am using macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 (Apple M1 max 64G with OpenGL renderer setting). No joke, since Affinity was acquired, the latest two versions, v2.4.1 and v2.4.2, have been crashing frequently, including Designer and Photo. I don't use Publisher often, so I haven't kept track, but Designer and Photo crash 20~30 times a day. If I continue using them, the number will be even higher. Once I switch to other programs, they inevitably pop up crash prompts. Now, I plan to downgrade to v2.4.0. ap-crash-report.txt ad-crash-report.txt ad-crash-report-2.txt ap-crash-report-3.txt ap-crash-report-2.txt

Fireworks is the best! Recently, I've been scripting to perform batch jobs for replacing images in a distorted graphic-symbol and changing image series numbers in Fireworks, tasks that can't be done in Affinity Software. I've also tried scripting in Photoshop, but it's frustrating due to an inexplicable warning: "The command 'Edit Contents' is not currently available," which made me give up. I hope this acquisition will not change Affinity's original development plan and software positioning.

Game over, if Affinity become a "Canva" desktop version, I'd return to Adobe without a second thought...

Using scripts, you can add new features to Affinity, like the ones shown here: https://github.com/AbdullahAlfaraj/Auto-Photoshop-StableDiffusion-Plugin. For example, Stable Diffusion can separate parts of an image, such as the "sky/background/objects", as seen here: https://github.com/continue-revolution/sd-webui-segment-anything. So, when the Affinity team makes their scripting API available, communities will be able to create similar extensions.

I think Scripting can not only help developers feel less stressed but also let extension creators be more creative. "Creating documents and text processing" is just one part of it. In fact, scripting is even more powerful. Photoshop also has many add-ons that give designers extra ways to edit images, including AI. It would be too narrow-minded to think that it is just a batch text handler just because of a few early demo videos.

I need an 'Opacity' option to set the step value of opacity (for example, 10% or -10%). It would be great if the official could add this option. Does anyone also need this feature? 😁

Super looking forward to it! I wish there is an alpha version of scripting release, even if there are still bugs. 🤩

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I am also using Linked Document, same problem with Embedding document, I am not sure if these are the same issues with the post you provide, at lease it did not crash the app on @madPXL 's computer. Thank you for giving me a hint that I can send screenshots to @NathanC, when I'm home.

Environment: AffinityDesigner v2.1.0 macOS Ventura 13.3.1 Display: OpenGL Hardware acceleration: Apple M1 Max (Metal) Issues Detail: - Adding a new Artboard in Embedding Document not showing on the Main document (showing empty with bounding box) - Adding more Artboards in Embedding Document may cause the app crashed Expected Result: Sample result as Affinity Designer 1.x Steps to reproduce: 1. Open main document 2. Double click the embedding document to enter edit mode 3. Select on artboard in the embedding document and press Cmd+J to duplicate, drag to a new position (have content like shape/text...) 4. Go back to the main document, select the embedding document and switch to the new ardboard duplicated just now from context toolbar 5. The embedding document layer showing empty with bounding box Additional Information: - The document was created in Affinity Designer v2.0.4 - Issues still exist after app restarted - Sometimes the first duplicated artboard shows normal bug the second one shows empty - Sometimes duplicated artboard in embedding document may cause the app crashed - If the main document and embedding document created in v2.1.0, main document can not be saved with warning (see screenshot-1) - I have a SD card inserted, but all documents I worked with is on local SSD - Please provide official email address for upload sample documents and videos (for privacy reasons I can't upload here) Screenshots/Videos:

I think if Affinity products release Scripting API, there would be many ways to implement it. For example, by scripting to store text information and font properties as layer names when export PSD format. Then opening this PSD file in Photoshop, the text can be restored as a text layer through Photoshop's script.

I found that Photopea can export PSD files with editable text layers, perhaps they have commercial partnership with Adobe? For now, I am exporting PDF to illustrator, and then save as PSD file to keep the text layer editable in Photoshop, which is painful, it seems Sketch use the same way to do this.

I think that if Affinity supports extension development, it can solve all of these requirements and problems, and make Affinity even more capable. 😘

My pleasure

Try to run Fireworks as administrator (Right click .exe and choose run as Administrator)