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Cobalt Dragon - maybe Serif should hire you for their company. You've done something Serif can't. Or maybe, for a reasonable fee, you'll do a feature for me - for Windows 11 - that Serif won't do, and I suspect there's no one there who can do it.

Unable to download Beta version 2.6.4.

Will the update to version 2.6.4 take place in early 2026? I'm asking because I want to hire an employee for my advertising company and I don't know whether to give up on Affinity and send the employee to use CorelDraw or Adobe software. I wouldn't want a new employee to get used to software that may not be developed. At the moment, there really is such silence that if it weren't for the fact that in this thread, for the first time in a long time, a moderator mentioned something about an update - I would have thought Affinity was dead.

All of the things you mentioned were only done a little, on the principle of getting users off my back, they are not fully finished despite the requests and insistence of users. I still believe that the former Serif does not use the programs they made.

I don't know if you know, but each of these 3 programs is really one program that only has functions blocked for the user. Different ones for Publisher, different ones for Designer and different ones for Photo. You can see this by opening in Photo, for example, a file made in Publisher in which there is a Data Merge Layout with a cut-down editing option, or, for example, you can open files with Symbols or files with Artboards made in Designer. I have Publisher in version 1 in which Serif mistakenly gave the Pages panel to Persona Designer. In version 2, Serif already removed this panel. I also wrote for 5 years to make 1 program. I also offer my money for it - nothing for free.

OK. Good to know he's okay.

That's not an answer. And my next question - Isn't Ash the Director anymore?

Affinity - if you're alive let me know. What happened to Ash? Was he fired? Did he take a really long vacation after selling Serif? Time to pack up?

I'm returning to CorelDraw after 8 years, the money I had prepared for the development of Affinity and many times wanted to give more to improve this program, I'm spending on CorelDraw 2025. Affinity is dead. Even Canva doesn't want to admit that it now owns Affinity.

I want to go back to the topic and allocate - $700 - (equivalent to Coreldraw 2025) to implement this feature. It seems that after Canva took over, the number of employees at Serif has decreased and I would like to allocate the money to financially support Serif. Please just give Serif the account number to which I should transfer the money!!! In all Affinity programs: 1. Double-click the Rectangle tool icon to create a rectangle around the page or selected workspace. 2. SHIFT + Double-click the Rectangle tool - creates a rectangle around the page margin or the margin of the selected workspace. 3. CTRL + Double-click the Rectangle tool - creates a rectangle around the page bleed or selected workspace. 4. Alt + Double-click the Rectangle tool adds a rectangle around selected elements. I remind you that Coreldraw has had this feature built in since the beginning of its existence. People who use CorelDraw know how much it makes everyday work easier. Thank you and I am waiting for the account number.

Yes, I know. This bug has not been fixed after 10 years. But it is interesting that when the Node Tool is selected, and the mouse pointer is placed in the Corner field and you turn the mouse wheel, the field does not move (that's how it should be), and the object name changes from Rectangle to Rounded Rectangle - only after changing the tool to another one (that's how it should be)!!!!!! Serif - wake up! Fix this!! It's been 10 years. My children have grown up in the meantime.

Can someone who has survived in Serif explain why the page thumbnails are so tiny in version 2.6.3 in Publisher? I'm not even asking for them to be made bigger, because I know it won't be done anyway, I'm just curious what the Serif developer had in mind when they reduced the page thumbnail to an absurd size? Nobody asked Serif to make these icons smaller, and yet instead of correcting the mistakes that people ask for, Serif comes up with such idiotic things on its own. Even though I have a 28-inch monitor, you can't see on these microscopic icons which one has a gray border and which one has a blue border. And please don't tell me to set the thumbnails to Medium, because they are too big in Medium size. There is an insanely big difference between the size of Small and Medium icons, the page captions are in the middle of the icons, and that's why it's unclear whether the page caption applies to the top or bottom page icon. I really regret installing version 2.6.3, it was my mistake, now when I want to install version 2.5.7 the computer tells me that I can't install a lower version. I'm really really nervous! And by the way, where is Ash? After he showed up in 2024 at the Canva circus, he disappeared from the scene. I'm starting to get really worried!

Why are you surprised? It's Serif!

Total disaster. This bug was not fixed in the production version 2.6.3 (I think so). I'm going back to version 2.5.7.

The production version 2.6.3 was released a moment ago. And this bug still hasn't been fixed. Is there anyone left at Serif who can fix this annoying bug? Maybe the guy from Vectorstyler could help you fix this annoying bug? It's been a year since this bug was reported, will 10 years be enough to fix it?

Don't you get the impression that this is Affinity dying? These last Beta versions give the impression that no one is working at Serif. Compared to Vectorstyler, where improvements and fixes are released every two weeks, Affinity is at a glacial standstill. For now, I don't plan on updating to version 2.6. In my professional work, I use Affinity version 2.5.7 on a daily basis. I just hope that Serif doesn't break anything and one day I'll find that I can't run the program because the servers checking licenses will be blocked.

Stop with these requests. Serif can't export to .BMP This is too high a challenge for Serif.

But did you know this team photo of Canva employees is AI-generated?!

While I agree with all of these points, I wanted to cool down the enthusiasm of new forum members and inform them not to have too high expectations for Serif-Canva to implement the mentioned features quickly or at all. It is obvious that Serif will not implement these requests within the next 10 years. After Canva took over, the quality of updates has clearly dropped. I feel like Affinity is slowly coming to an end.

Please note that in 1 week there are 1500 views of this topic and no response from Serif, nor any reaction to our users' speculations regarding the continued existence of Affinity.

I guess Google Translate translated something wrong. I think that programmers design the Affinity program, invent some functions, but they don't know how they behave in real life, during normal utility work. That's why there are so many inconsistent things and things started but never finished properly. And despite user comments, programmers think that they know better how it should look.

I don't mean that programmers design this program, but they don't work in this program in everyday life. So they don't know how the program behaves during real work.

A few years ago, Serif even published teasers of new features in beta versions in the form of animations. You could then see what would be changed or added to the software. The pace of updates and fixes was really once every two weeks. I took part in it myself and thanks to my comments, fixes were also introduced to the program. Back then, during the update, there weren't as many errors that appear now during updates. I suspect that different IT people worked back then as now. Now, after the update is introduced, errors of previously working features are accidentally added somewhere. How is it possible not to check this before the release? It's incomprehensible. Besides, from the beginning of Affinity, I personally thought that the creators of Affinity were not working on this program. Thank you

I have the impression that Affinity is coming to an end. Canva probably bought Serif so that there would be no competition. When I see new users on the forum asking for some features or fixes, I can only feel sorry for them, that they have such hopes for their implementation, and from experience I know that it will end in nothing anyway. And this silence on the Canva 2025 Circus about Affinity is also worrying. It looks like Serif employees are quitting after Canva took over, and who is going to work there now? Too bad, at the beginning Affinity made a good impression, now after 10 years the development of the program has slowed down terribly. So, will version 3.0 ever be created?

Hello Serif, are you going to make a correction to this bug, version 2.6.2 is already released. Should I give up and stop reporting this bug? Let someone from Serif answer whether they even read these reports (and even more so in the archive) and I will never write about this topic again