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Im having a similar problem and found this topic. I bought AD on release, got the e-mail and the resources; But i recently lost my hdd and only now searching my e-mails i realized that one was deleted when i did a major clean up some time ago. How can i get then again?

Hi Short after the launch of AD's retail for windows (1.5) ive come to a hiatus working with graphics that made me out of the loop regarding Designers latest developments. I was following every update closely until then and i recall having some bugs and issues with 1.5 - and firing it up again today i found it strange not being prompted for any update. Coming here just now ive found out the updates are still coming but for beta only wich is 1.6 something at this time - but now theres too many updates since 1.5 for me to peruse it all as well as most recent bugs so im coming here for some help deciding wich version to use. I know only retail is recommended for production but if im not mistaken bugs with symbols and text on 1.5 were really getting in my way and since symbols came up its my most beloved and used feature on Designer so im more then willing on dealing with any other odd bug for a better experience with that. 1- Was any feature added since 1.5? Besides bug fixing any new features im ignorant of? I was really looking up for some planed and missing features. 2- Does beta have better symbols? 3- Which is the most stable/safe beta version? I mean, i recall some beta updates bringing up issues that weren't there prior and one or two builds being particularly more troublesome (prior to 1.5). Most probably the latest beta is the best one, just asking if this particular build is in someway more unstable or toublesome then the previous one- in case i decide to go with beta. 4- By any chance its possible to have two builds installed? Of course being well aware that saved files within each may work differently, i could see myself saving and finishing up final work on retail while doing busy work on beta without overlaping saves using things like exporting and importing. Any help?

Second that. A LOT

Second that

Of all the speed and practical features i enjoy in my workflow- wich AD excels and covers me (thanks a lot!) - the most crucial for me is missing: profiles. (2nd most, right below shortcuts) I want speed. I want to focus on what im working with - and something that enhances the experience a lot is having the interface suited precisely for what im doing. The more tabs i have to find/click, floating windows, move the cursor across my monitor and such the less i concentrate; I easily get into 'the flow' - and AD is top on getting me there, thanks A LOT - but it fades and breaks the more menu fiddling i have to do. AD already is councious of that with the amazing Draw, Pixel and Export personas. Amazing. But how much im missing fine tuning then to specific needs. Typography for instance. How much i wanted to 'click' in typography (how i would call a personal profile) and the interface changing to show all text panels in the layout i liked most for that. Or the symbols and assets panels (loving these features) wich sits better docked alongside the artboard but only when i need then... Wouldn't be any fuss if my process was linear - first this then that - but i constantly switch between 'modes' so to say, ridiculously more so the earlier i am on a design - testing and tuning combinations of elements and alterntives and such. Surely not as critical as bug fixing, or major features (how much i want some kind of 'blob brush') - but considering how Ux is king and on my view what is making AD take on the competition so well (killing at it id say), this is pretty much the only major Ui/ux feature i see missing from the perfect AD i can envision. Just imagining assigning some shortcuts to profiles and swithcing in the blink of a eye would sit really really well alongside the fluid 10000 zoom, infinite history... the feel and practicity of the whole thing.

I love you. I love the affinity team too. Guess im still habituated to bloated interfaces and sub-menued-hidden operations, can't believe how i missed that. I work with ui/ux and i can see how that came from my expectations, previous mental models. I was deceived by the stroke properties window, expecting it to hold full control and options on strokes - makes sense, but would be redundant given the list is already at the brushes panel. Sorry for the dumb question, thanks a lot for the quick answer!

Thanks!

I double on arrows switching fonts. Such a small thing but makes a heap of difference for some of us.

Even tough i have a tablet im not good with it - in other apps smoother/less precise drawing options always saved me, and when not Lazy Nezumi. Unfortunally Lazy Nezumi isn't working with my particular tablet+affinity beta on windows, and AD's default smooth while good isn't enougth for my terrible jibbling lines. So like i do 90% of the time i go with the pen tool like im used to... But i can't for my life find how to apply brushes to curves made with the pen. Am i missing something? And if im not how thats not allowed? I mean, since brush tool also create curves, i tought that wouldn't make a difference how i created a curve. Surely pen misses pressure and speed of a stylus so i can get not having that- but vector brushes should apply to curve right? Is there a more hidden menu option for it? If there aren't is there any work around? Heck, i wouldn't mind to lock curve editing to apply a brush if thats what it takes. Took me a long time tracing a image (im loving AD, can't stop using it!) that i planed to use with a brush... im stuck now. Any ideas?

Any news on this? This and some kind of blob brush are probably the only things i really miss in Affinity; Sure theres a lot i would love to see added but they would, well add- Halftones and Blob feels like a void, frequently i reach to them and they're not there.

Thanks a lot! Googling i only found messages that probably pertained to a older version(without clip to canvas). That helped me A LOT. Trying margins again i think i could replicate the problem: its when creating margins on the new document window. From ctrl+N margins don't appear(creating artboards)- previously ive only created margins that way, and they sometime appeared (and i recall then disapearing even when selecting the correct artboard). But i don't recall wich version of the beta ive saw the erratic appear/disappear behaviour. On the current release margins on the 'create new document' aren't appearing for me- but when changing then throught the document setup window they appear and behave correctly as you explained, all nice. I really missed margins, this bug on new document made me tought they weren't working at all.

Today i decided to check how different artists organized in affinity (layers, groups, artboards and so on) - when looking at Frankentoon's work Toxic Land affinity freezed. Trying to pin point if it was a single event and what was causing it i narrowed it down to this single file- it happens when i expand specific layers (the character's ones), and only then. I can't tell if its something within these layers thats triggering the total freeze since i can't look into then. I tried a number of times, also checking other artists, the bug strikes precisely every time i click to expand said layers on this specific file. I know its something very specific - but precisely for being so consistent and easy to track i felt the need to give my 2 cents for the beta. Im on a windows 10, core i5, 8ram, gtx960. I monitored the freezed app for some time and theres no memory leak, it goes from using 227 of my ram and 0% cpu when i open the file, then jumps to 27-28% of cpu usage with the same and steady ram usage of around 219mb. Every time. Im also under the impression it got something to do with scrolling throught the layer panel, rather then some kind of corrupted file or misreading. When i expand one of the 'bug trigger' layers i can scroll up withou freeze, its going down it freezes imediatly. Unrelated bugs ive seen Don't know if i should make a topic to report every single one so here it goes: Embedded documents update erratically: making a pattern ive followed one tutorial saving a tile then embeding (btw i would love a specific pattern tool); Most of the time the document updated imediatly (working on the tile alongside the document, different monitors), but as changes amounted only half of the layer updated, divided in half vertically or horizontally (varies). Hiding and unhinding the layer updated everything, so its something with the draw/render of the working space. Margins: Can only see margins when creating artboard, margins disappear and re-appear erratically i can't say how. Ive been mostly just checking out affinity (and loving it! really glad its coming to windows!) so i hadn't tried to use margins for enought time to replicate the bug or pin down triggers. Artboards/document limits not hiding objects crossing their boundaries. This one is tricky, it happened while making the pattern mentioned above; It seemed to follow a mistyped keyboard shortcut so i guessed ive hit some 'show/hide' function, but not only i didn't find any such option googling ive found users saying theres no 'show beyond document boundaries' function in affinity. Whats strange is that its persistent: whenever i open affinity everything that bleeds pages are always in plain sight - so am i missing something or is it a bug?