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TonyB Yes, it is a windows bug, but it was caused by AD. AD has weird requirements such as necessary windows updates - never ANY program required an OS update; a particular OS - yes (win xp only, win 7 only, win 10 only) - but never an update. And never any program required to turn on Aero - not graphic editors, not movie editors, not sound editors, not even 3d editor! - they all manage to use hardware acceleration without making the user to modify his OS. And as I said, I worked on my lovely win7 pc for years without any problems, and then I install AD and have these awful bugs in my system, instantly (alright, not quite instantly, because I discovered them only a day after). Yeah, these bugs look like windows bugs and they are windows bugs, but they appeared because AD did something to my system. And I dunno how you can be so sure that it's not AD. You guys didn't even know about fonts problems until I made a bug report, see my thread: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21631-how-to-fix-horrible-ui-fonts/ I mean, this is a beta, right, and it's a beta because it has lots of bugs and you can't even charge people money for it, because obviously noone will pay for a buggy program that can ruin a workflow, so it's kinda of a risk. And here I am, took my chance, made a couple of bug reports so that YOU can fix them and earn money in the future, when commercial production-ready version will be prepared (thanks to all of the beta testers), and because of that my system is ruined and you tell me that it's not your problem? This is outrageous, thanks for all your help! and 1 more thing, i hate adobe for their awful bugs inside their programs that they will never fix because people don't have an actual choice, and i tried AD because i am dead sick of illustrator's bugs, but atleast adobe's programs never touched my system, never interfered with anything that's not adobe on my pc. UGHH! Damnit, I'll have to reinstall the OS :( You guys are programmers, you must be like gods in knowing the system, why can't you help me and give advice on what to do?

OMG a new portion of bugs, this time with Photoshop. It now doesn't update a JPEG if saved replacing an old file. Discovered it too late, lots of work wasn't updated... OMG. This is a disaster, hate to say it - but I regret installing AD. I've been working on my computer for years, and on my previous PCs - for years as well, and never had any trouble with win7, never had to reinstall it, always kept everything clean and working and now it seems that I have to reinstall the OS :( :( :( I'm also disappointed that moderators and admins aren't paying much attention to my problem, because this is a dead serious problem

itsahobby Good question! Yes, I've discovered that problematic images have 32bit color depth AND CMYK color space. ANd I was wrong when I said that Illustrator suddenly started to work normally. So now the situation is: InDD and AI create CMYK images which have 32bit color depth. They cannot be preview or displayed. But same files, saved as RGB JPEGs from InDD/AI, have 24bit color depth and are previewed and displayed just fine. Again, the funny part is that when I open those 32bit CMYK JPEGs in PHOTOSHOP and save them (just make a minor change and hit CTRL+S) - images get ressurected: they are preview and displayed normally. I understand why CMYK images have 32bit color depth (4 channels multiplied by 8 bits per channel vs 3 channels by 8bit in RGB), but I don't understand why Photoshop is creating such images just fine, but AI and InDD don't. Any thoughts? :o

itsahobby That's the thing, all params are OK, only the color depth seems suspicious :huh: BTW, Illustrator *suddenly* started to generate normal JPEGs. One guy gave me his DLLs and I replaced mine (it was quite a trick to do, replacing system files) - maybe that was the solution. But previously "broken" jpegs are still not displaying... Sigh.

itsahobby Hmm. I took a look at the properties of the image (not through irfanview, just RMB->Properties), and it seems that all problematic JPEGs have 32bit color depth, while normal one have 24bit. But this is still weird, since PNGs have both 32 and 24 bit color depth and are displaying just fine. Can you comment this please?

itsahobby What is this Q&D app you're talking about? May be it'll help me out too? MikeW That's an idea, thanks! peterapas I agree, lots of problems with Windows, but for a graphic designer it's simpler to stick to it right now, since most people use it and full file compatibility is a must when designing some stuff for brand identity (for example, mac versions of MS Office don't support font embedding and that's a real problem)

Mark Ingram Yeah, I know. It's fine in LAN, google drive and graphic editors. But not in thumbnails and native windows viewer, that's the problem

Hey everyone, thanks for the replies. I fully checked the HDD (low level disk check, including surface check) - no probs with the HDD, no bad sectors or errors, so it's definately not HDD. Mark Ingram See attached image. Created it today - as I said, newly created JPEGS (from AI/INDD) instantly get broken. Bhikkhu Pesala Doubt it - cyrillic letters were sometimes a problem with WinXP, but Win7 doesn't have such issues. besides, even if an image is inside a fully latin-lettered path and has latin name - problem remains. peterapas Yeah, I'm starting to think that DLLs got broken somehow and now am searching for new ones. BTW can you give yours, if you have win7 x64 pro? 4 dlls (2 from system32 and 2 from syswow64). And yeah, reinstalling OS would be the simplest way (way back the time when XP ruled it was a regular procedure) but reviving the OS from ground zero would consume too much time for me right now (reinstalling a bunch of apps, backing up saves of computer games, trying to remember all logins and passwords to tens of accounts in the internet lol).

Remember that trojan that encrypts files on your pc, asking your for money in order to decrypt files? That's not it. And remember that standard issue with bad sectors on HDD, which ruins some files? That's not it either (I think). Yesterday I installed AD. Before that, I installed the windows update it required. And today I've discovered that some of JPEGs are not previewed in explorer and can't be opened by the native picture viewer. Problematic JPEGs occur everywhere on the harddrive. Needless to say that this is a catastrophy. But not quite a catastrophy, and that's the trick: these images open normaly in Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, MS Word, Fastone Viewer, MS Paint, whatever but not standard viewer. Also, these images open through a local network on another computer with standard viewer (same OS - win7 64bit PRO). And here's trick #2: only photoshop and paint can save jpeg files now, all other programs can't! I export jpegs from INDD and AI - they instantly get "broken" (though they can be opened with the same programs and through LAN). All other formats export fine, but not newly made JPEGS. I googled around and found some interesting advice: two commands have to be executed, but they don't - regsvr32 shimgw.dll and resvr32 shmedia.dll. I triedto execute them via command line (WIN+R) and tried just to open those dll's with regsrv32.exe (in 4 variations, since there is a copy of each dll in two folder - System32 and SystemWOW64 and there is a copy of regsrv32.exe in same two folders) - no use, it gives out an error. I can't restore the system, since never used system restore points. I'm not saying it's AD's fault, but this looks suspicious. Again: 1) Only JPEGs have this bug. 2) Only SOME of the jpegs have this bug, and problematic images can be in the same folder side by side with normal jpegs. 3) Thumbnails aren't shown and only native image viewer can't open these JPEGs, only on the original PC - everything is previewed and opened through LAN Any ideas? Thank you

Although I agree with splitting the workflow between several apps, I can't walk by this comment. Illustrator has so many panels because it offers high functionality and control over the image, which is a must in prepress, for example. I can't even say what can be redone in Illustrator UI, because all of its functions are pretty useful in all sorts of cases. Are there any demonstrative tutorials?

No prob, here are a bunch of apps versus AD

1920x1080 PS: if it helps, my monitor specs: Dell S2340L, 1920x1080, 8M:1, HDMI, 7ms, IPS Connected with HDMI-DVI cable to GT 630 (not GTX 630, just GT 630) But again, all other programs render fonts nicely and smoothly, bug occurs only in AD

Thank you! Suggestion to developers: make this option active by default, since most users are migrating from Adobe Products and any similarity to Corel Draw is instantly hurting butt :)

yes, all of the UI is like that. and yes, clear type is on. and as well as emmrecs01 I didn't have any problems installing and running AD on my very old Win7 distributive that I ever updated only because AD asked me to.

In Illustrator you have to just hit an object with the selection rectangle and it gets selected, but in Affinity you have to encapsulate the object in the selection rectangle in order for the object to get selected (like in Corel Draw). Is there an option that allows to change that?