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It's simply because, if you used a preset of an iPad, for example, you could preview while you work at retina or standard pixels and then when you output at 1x or 2x you got the thing you were seeing while you were designing.

Status: Release Candidate Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer for iPad From App Store App Store: Submitted Download link: Join the TestFlight Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.0 for iPad. 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 significantly different from the 1.8.6 version available for purchase - 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. Thanks again for your continued support! Matt Changes This Time - Larger back/home button at the top left of the UI on an iPad that has no physical home button (to aid the user hitting it!) - New samples and associated graphics - Fix for TIFF in Export Preview - Fixed crash when choosing to 'bake' corners in the Corner Tool - Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour without interacting with the dialog Changes Since 1.8.6 - Numerous drawing issues resolved- Fix for paste-style leaving objects with misbehaving lines - Fix for 'Export Time-lapse' not working correctly - Tweak for behaviour of disabling external display presentation - hopefully should act more sensibly now... - Added Beta icons back (at the last moment!) so you know which version you're using, lol! - Restored 'Export Time-lapse' feature that I'd inadvertently removed last time - sorry.... - Account-related improvements - Added Contour Tool option to allow the user to change the mitre limit of the contour - PDF import improvement to handling of mask images - Fix for Preferences crash for non-English setups - Added Preference option (under 'General') to disable external screen broadcasting - New splash screen - Numerous contour related fixes - Fix for Transform studio being incorrect and not allowing access to Constraints - Removed Package feature for now - Added Export Timelapse video - Added Snapping to Pixel Selection Bounds - Help improvements - Added Export Preview in the Export dialog - Fix for colour-picker not working correctly in brush tools - Fix a number of potential symbol-related problems - Text improvements - particularly relating to mid-word punctuation - Snapping tweaks - you can now snap to column guides if they're hidden and you have 'snap to hidden objects' turned on - Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Layer Options view in the layers studio - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th) - Fix for printing of passthrough PDFs - Misc PDF export tweaks - Fix for Column Guides not updating correctly - PDF Import improvements (particularly around tinted colours and unknown fonts) - Application registration and content streaming (see post below) - Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) - Fixed sporadic crash with Pencil Tool (yay!) and hopefully generally improved product stability - Fix for artefacts occasionally noticed in the noise pattern while editing objects with noise on a linear fill - Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path - Fix for terrible rendering problems - particularly affected cropped items with layer effects applied - Added Contour tool. - Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say... - Improved performance with large documents. I will aim to improve this further over time. - Added a new “Divide” blend mode. - Allowed snapping to the bounds of the pixel selection.

Status: Release Candidate Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not available Hello, 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 significantly different from the 1.8.x version available for purchase - 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. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes this time - Replacing an image via the context toolbar now allows users to specify linked or embedded placement - Fix for TIFF in the Export Preview window - Present user with notice relating to the terms accepted in order to use H264 encoding in Export Timelapse Changes Since 1.8.x - Numerous drawing issues resolved - Fix for paste-style leaving objects with misbehaving lines - Fix for PDF export on an M1 Mac causing issues - Fix for PDF passthrough failures. Disabled passthrough of multi-page PDFs (for now, at least) - Fix for macOS beep when using keyboard shortcuts within the Export Preview window - Numerous export preview improvements (press Escape to close the preview quickly, you can now reposition the export dialog so you can work with it and the preview window more easily at the same time, shortcuts for zooms implemented (as per the main view), click-drag with mouse to pan the preview, Apple Magic Mouse better supported - Account-related improvements - Added user-controlled Mitre limit to the Contour Tool - Enabled PDF passthrough context toolbar control - PDF import improvement with mask images - Fixed Contour Tool's light UI context toolbar icons being invisible - Contours now form miters (when requested) until greater angles - Performing a boolean operation on an object with a contour no longer leaves the new object with an additional (unwanted) contour - Double-clicking the View Tool's tool icon should zoom to fit - Export preview UI tweaks and ensure it uses the correct ICC profile to show the colours as intended - Improved performance of OpenType features - Added export preview panel (for raster types) - updates live whenever you change an export parameter - Added JPEG-XR 101010 import support (useful for screen captures from Xbox, etc.) - Added new splash screen - Content download service improvements - Numerous assorted fixes - Help improvements - Localisation improvements - Export Time-lapse should now draw without pixellation when showing zoomed in areas - PDF export improvements - particularly around filter effects - Added 'Select Same Name' and 'Select Same Colour Tag' options - Updated Help - A few Big Sur UI-related tweaks - Fix for printing of passthrough PDFs - Fix a number of potential symbol-related problems - Text improvements - particularly relating to mid-word punctuation - Snapping tweaks - you can now snap to column guides if they're hidden and you have 'snap to hidden objects' turned on - Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Blend Options dialog on the layers panel - Added 'Export Time-lapse' feature from Photo - Fixed insertion target button failure! - Fixed font combo not previewing changes in the document correctly - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th or if you know the magic trick!) - Misc PDF export tweaks - Fix for Column Guides not updating correctly - PDF Import improvements (particularly around tinted colours and unknown fonts) - Fix for a UI issue in Big Sur (the vertical positioning of some checkboxes) - New samples! - Added Preferences item to allow auto-updating of linked images in the document when the images are edited externally - Fix for 'Embed'/'Link' image placement preference working incorrectly from some dialogs... - Added 'Save as package' feature for easy delivery of a complete project - Improvements to application registration and content syncing - Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) - Added Studio Presets with, hopefully, complete functionality - Tabbing between fields in the New Document dialog should no longer crash! (sigh) - Fixed sporadic crash with Pencil Tool (yay!) and hopefully generally improved product stability - Fix for artefacts occasionally noticed in the noise pattern while editing objects with noise on a linear fill - Fix for occasional disabling of some buttons - Added registration page to the app - allows users to login and auto-install brushes (so far) - Fix for Select Same and Select Object when they encounter text objects - Enable image placement options in Designer (you can now choose Linked or Embedded) and also Resource Manager (from the View menu) - Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path - Application icon updated to fit the 'Big Sur' visual style, also document icons updated. Misc other Big Sur fixes. - Fix for terrible rendering problems - particularly affected cropped items with layer effects applied - Added ability to rotate canvas if you have a scroll wheel mouse (or two-finger vertical drag on your touchpad) if you hold down Command. This will rotate around the mouse cursor location. Holding down Shift in addition to Command while scrolling will rotate around the centre of the view. - Contour tool. - Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say... - Improved performance with large documents. I will aim to improve this further over time. - Added a new “Divide” blend mode. - Allowed snapping to the bounds of the pixel selection. To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this beta notification thread To be notified when this update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Affinity Designer customers, please follow this release notification thread

Oooooh, I wonder if that's a patentable feature? lol

We're talking about operations performed on documents with many objects. Physical document size has never really meant much in Designer until you start adding raster layers - and even then we should scale fairly well... Incidentally it's worth stating that in the future, we'll be able to scale to huge numbers of document objects much faster than we currently can... so don't fear

Both of these should be sorted for the next RC...

Status: Release Candidate Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer for iPad From App Store App Store: Not submitted Download link: Join the TestFlight Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.0 for iPad. 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 significantly different from the 1.8.6 version available for purchase - 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. Thanks again for your continued support! Matt Changes This Time - Numerous drawing issues resolved- Fix for paste-style leaving objects with misbehaving lines - Fix for 'Export Time-lapse' not working correctly - Tweak for behaviour of disabling external display presentation - hopefully should act more sensibly now... Changes Since 1.8.6 - Added Beta icons back (at the last moment!) so you know which version you're using, lol! - Restored 'Export Time-lapse' feature that I'd inadvertently removed last time - sorry.... - Account-related improvements - Added Contour Tool option to allow the user to change the mitre limit of the contour - PDF import improvement to handling of mask images - Fix for Preferences crash for non-English setups - Added Preference option (under 'General') to disable external screen broadcasting - New splash screen - Numerous contour related fixes - Fix for Transform studio being incorrect and not allowing access to Constraints - Removed Package feature for now - Added Export Timelapse video - Added Snapping to Pixel Selection Bounds - Help improvements - Added Export Preview in the Export dialog - Fix for colour-picker not working correctly in brush tools - Fix a number of potential symbol-related problems - Text improvements - particularly relating to mid-word punctuation - Snapping tweaks - you can now snap to column guides if they're hidden and you have 'snap to hidden objects' turned on - Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Layer Options view in the layers studio - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th) - Fix for printing of passthrough PDFs - Misc PDF export tweaks - Fix for Column Guides not updating correctly - PDF Import improvements (particularly around tinted colours and unknown fonts) - Application registration and content streaming (see post below) - Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) - Fixed sporadic crash with Pencil Tool (yay!) and hopefully generally improved product stability - Fix for artefacts occasionally noticed in the noise pattern while editing objects with noise on a linear fill - Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path - Fix for terrible rendering problems - particularly affected cropped items with layer effects applied - Added Contour tool. - Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say... - Improved performance with large documents. I will aim to improve this further over time. - Added a new “Divide” blend mode. - Allowed snapping to the bounds of the pixel selection.

Status: Release Candidate Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not available Hello, 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 significantly different from the 1.8.x version available for purchase - 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. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes this time - Numerous drawing issues resolved - Fix for paste-style leaving objects with misbehaving lines - Fix for PDF export on an M1 Mac causing issues - Fix for PDF passthrough failures. Disabled passthrough of multi-page PDFs (for now, at least) - Fix for macOS beep when using keyboard shortcuts within the Export Preview window - Updated help Changes Since 1.8.x - Numerous export preview improvements (press Escape to close the preview quickly, you can now reposition the export dialog so you can work with it and the preview window more easily at the same time, shortcuts for zooms implemented (as per the main view), click-drag with mouse to pan the preview, Apple Magic Mouse better supported - Account-related improvements - Added user-controlled Mitre limit to the Contour Tool - Enabled PDF passthrough context toolbar control - PDF import improvement with mask images - Fixed Contour Tool's light UI context toolbar icons being invisible - Contours now form miters (when requested) until greater angles - Performing a boolean operation on an object with a contour no longer leaves the new object with an additional (unwanted) contour - Double-clicking the View Tool's tool icon should zoom to fit - Export preview UI tweaks and ensure it uses the correct ICC profile to show the colours as intended - Improved performance of OpenType features - Added export preview panel (for raster types) - updates live whenever you change an export parameter - Added JPEG-XR 101010 import support (useful for screen captures from Xbox, etc.) - Added new splash screen - Content download service improvements - Numerous assorted fixes - Help improvements - Localisation improvements - Export Time-lapse should now draw without pixellation when showing zoomed in areas - PDF export improvements - particularly around filter effects - Added 'Select Same Name' and 'Select Same Colour Tag' options - Updated Help - A few Big Sur UI-related tweaks - Fix for printing of passthrough PDFs - Fix a number of potential symbol-related problems - Text improvements - particularly relating to mid-word punctuation - Snapping tweaks - you can now snap to column guides if they're hidden and you have 'snap to hidden objects' turned on - Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Blend Options dialog on the layers panel - Added 'Export Time-lapse' feature from Photo - Fixed insertion target button failure! - Fixed font combo not previewing changes in the document correctly - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th or if you know the magic trick!) - Misc PDF export tweaks - Fix for Column Guides not updating correctly - PDF Import improvements (particularly around tinted colours and unknown fonts) - Fix for a UI issue in Big Sur (the vertical positioning of some checkboxes) - New samples! - Added Preferences item to allow auto-updating of linked images in the document when the images are edited externally - Fix for 'Embed'/'Link' image placement preference working incorrectly from some dialogs... - Added 'Save as package' feature for easy delivery of a complete project - Improvements to application registration and content syncing - Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) - Added Studio Presets with, hopefully, complete functionality - Tabbing between fields in the New Document dialog should no longer crash! (sigh) - Fixed sporadic crash with Pencil Tool (yay!) and hopefully generally improved product stability - Fix for artefacts occasionally noticed in the noise pattern while editing objects with noise on a linear fill - Fix for occasional disabling of some buttons - Added registration page to the app - allows users to login and auto-install brushes (so far) - Fix for Select Same and Select Object when they encounter text objects - Enable image placement options in Designer (you can now choose Linked or Embedded) and also Resource Manager (from the View menu) - Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path - Application icon updated to fit the 'Big Sur' visual style, also document icons updated. Misc other Big Sur fixes. - Fix for terrible rendering problems - particularly affected cropped items with layer effects applied - Added ability to rotate canvas if you have a scroll wheel mouse (or two-finger vertical drag on your touchpad) if you hold down Command. This will rotate around the mouse cursor location. Holding down Shift in addition to Command while scrolling will rotate around the centre of the view. - Contour tool. - Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say... - Improved performance with large documents. I will aim to improve this further over time. - Added a new “Divide” blend mode. - Allowed snapping to the bounds of the pixel selection. To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this beta notification thread To be notified when this update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Affinity Designer customers, please follow this release notification thread

Incidentally @Gear maker I think I've fixed the issue you mentioned with artefacts being left on the screen after resizing that object and dragging it around - so hopefully the next beta might tempt you back

The problem is that those 'miscellaneous' items are usually things which the dev spots or nails down before they've even been brought to their attention as issues... If there's something like "Attempted to fix a long standing, widely reported problem" needs saying on the release list, it will most certainly be on the release list, so don't worry about missing it! I do agree that for testers it would be fantastic to have as much info as possible, but we have a very limited number of developers - who have very little spare time - it's not that it hasn't been thought of, it's more that it's hard to find the headspace and opportunity to log these things somewhere

@Hokusai - I have managed to reproduce and fix the issue you clearly show - thank you! @Gear maker - I can't find a good reason for the behaviour you've experienced, but I think it's not unreasonable to assume that something was amiss at some point during the early betas and is hopefully resolved now. Please do let me know if you see anything further though

I have to say this, unfortunately, that if something hasn't been explicitly stated as fixed, it's not reasonable to list it as still not fixed - because we haven't said we've fixed it yet. If everyone did this then we would have a number of pages full of things that aren't fixed yet. That's simply not helpful. The Divide operation has been fixed in a development branch, to the best of my knowledge, but this is currently unreleased. A fix is coming, but it is not appropriate to put it into this version at present as the potential for disruption is far too high at this stage. These long-standing issues are not ignored and they are not somehow classed as 'okay'... we simply haven't forgotten about them just because you see no obvious movement. As mentioned in the other forum post, Sean reiterated that the bug is logged and with development. Progress was being made and we're looking better with a comprehensive fix now, but it needs time and appropriate phases of development to launch this to the public. Many thanks for bearing with us, I know it's not easy looking in from the outside when there is only so much we can say :) Matt

Status: Release Candidate Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer for iPad From App Store App Store: Not submitted Download link: Join the TestFlight Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.0 for iPad. 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 significantly different from the 1.8.6 version available for purchase - 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. Thanks again for your continued support! Matt Changes This Time - Added Beta icons back (at the last moment!) so you know which version you're using, lol! - Restored 'Export Time-lapse' feature that I'd inadvertently removed last time - sorry.... - Account-related improvements- Miscellaneous small bug fixes and crash fixes Changes Since 1.8.6 - Added Contour Tool option to allow the user to change the mitre limit of the contour - PDF import improvement to handling of mask images - Fix for Preferences crash for non-English setups - Added Preference option (under 'General') to disable external screen broadcasting - New splash screen - Numerous contour related fixes - Fix for Transform studio being incorrect and not allowing access to Constraints - Removed Package feature for now - Added Export Timelapse video - Added Snapping to Pixel Selection Bounds - Help improvements - Added Export Preview in the Export dialog - Fix for colour-picker not working correctly in brush tools - Fix a number of potential symbol-related problems - Text improvements - particularly relating to mid-word punctuation - Snapping tweaks - you can now snap to column guides if they're hidden and you have 'snap to hidden objects' turned on - Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Layer Options view in the layers studio - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th) - Fix for printing of passthrough PDFs - Misc PDF export tweaks - Fix for Column Guides not updating correctly - PDF Import improvements (particularly around tinted colours and unknown fonts) - Application registration and content streaming (see post below) - Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) - Fixed sporadic crash with Pencil Tool (yay!) and hopefully generally improved product stability - Fix for artefacts occasionally noticed in the noise pattern while editing objects with noise on a linear fill - Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path - Fix for terrible rendering problems - particularly affected cropped items with layer effects applied - Added Contour tool. - Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say... - Improved performance with large documents. I will aim to improve this further over time. - Added a new “Divide” blend mode. - Allowed snapping to the bounds of the pixel selection.

Status: Release Candidate Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not available Hello, 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 significantly different from the 1.8.x version available for purchase - 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. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes this time - Numerous export preview improvements (press Escape to close the preview quickly, you can now reposition the export dialog so you can work with it and the preview window more easily at the same time, shortcuts for zooms implemented (as per the main view), click-drag with mouse to pan the preview, Apple Magic Mouse better supported - Account-related improvements - Miscellaneous small bug fixes and crash fixes Changes Since 1.8.x - Added user-controlled Mitre limit to the Contour Tool - Enabled PDF passthrough context toolbar control - PDF import improvement with mask images - Fixed Contour Tool's light UI context toolbar icons being invisible - Contours now form miters (when requested) until greater angles - Performing a boolean operation on an object with a contour no longer leaves the new object with an additional (unwanted) contour - Double-clicking the View Tool's tool icon should zoom to fit - Export preview UI tweaks and ensure it uses the correct ICC profile to show the colours as intended - Improved performance of OpenType features - Added export preview panel (for raster types) - updates live whenever you change an export parameter - Added JPEG-XR 101010 import support (useful for screen captures from Xbox, etc.) - Added new splash screen - Content download service improvements - Numerous assorted fixes - Help improvements - Localisation improvements - Export Time-lapse should now draw without pixellation when showing zoomed in areas - PDF export improvements - particularly around filter effects - Added 'Select Same Name' and 'Select Same Colour Tag' options - Updated Help - A few Big Sur UI-related tweaks - Fix for printing of passthrough PDFs - Fix a number of potential symbol-related problems - Text improvements - particularly relating to mid-word punctuation - Snapping tweaks - you can now snap to column guides if they're hidden and you have 'snap to hidden objects' turned on - Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Blend Options dialog on the layers panel - Added 'Export Time-lapse' feature from Photo - Fixed insertion target button failure! - Fixed font combo not previewing changes in the document correctly - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th or if you know the magic trick!) - Misc PDF export tweaks - Fix for Column Guides not updating correctly - PDF Import improvements (particularly around tinted colours and unknown fonts) - Fix for a UI issue in Big Sur (the vertical positioning of some checkboxes) - New samples! - Added Preferences item to allow auto-updating of linked images in the document when the images are edited externally - Fix for 'Embed'/'Link' image placement preference working incorrectly from some dialogs... - Added 'Save as package' feature for easy delivery of a complete project - Improvements to application registration and content syncing - Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) - Added Studio Presets with, hopefully, complete functionality - Tabbing between fields in the New Document dialog should no longer crash! (sigh) - Fixed sporadic crash with Pencil Tool (yay!) and hopefully generally improved product stability - Fix for artefacts occasionally noticed in the noise pattern while editing objects with noise on a linear fill - Fix for occasional disabling of some buttons - Added registration page to the app - allows users to login and auto-install brushes (so far) - Fix for Select Same and Select Object when they encounter text objects - Enable image placement options in Designer (you can now choose Linked or Embedded) and also Resource Manager (from the View menu) - Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path - Application icon updated to fit the 'Big Sur' visual style, also document icons updated. Misc other Big Sur fixes. - Fix for terrible rendering problems - particularly affected cropped items with layer effects applied - Added ability to rotate canvas if you have a scroll wheel mouse (or two-finger vertical drag on your touchpad) if you hold down Command. This will rotate around the mouse cursor location. Holding down Shift in addition to Command while scrolling will rotate around the centre of the view. - Contour tool. - Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say... - Improved performance with large documents. I will aim to improve this further over time. - Added a new “Divide” blend mode. - Allowed snapping to the bounds of the pixel selection. To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this beta notification thread To be notified when this update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Affinity Designer customers, please follow this release notification thread

Status: Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer for iPad From App Store App Store: Not submitted Download link: Join the TestFlight Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.0 for iPad. 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 significantly different from the 1.8.6 version available for purchase - 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. Thanks again for your continued support! Matt Changes This Time - Added Contour Tool option to allow the user to change the mitre limit of the contour - PDF import improvement to handling of mask images Changes Since 1.8.6 - Fix for Preferences crash for non-English setups - Added Preference option (under 'General') to disable external screen broadcasting - New splash screen - Numerous contour related fixes - Fix for Transform studio being incorrect and not allowing access to Constraints - Removed Package feature for now - Added Export Timelapse video - Added Snapping to Pixel Selection Bounds - Help improvements - Added Export Preview in the Export dialog - Fix for colour-picker not working correctly in brush tools - Fix a number of potential symbol-related problems - Text improvements - particularly relating to mid-word punctuation - Snapping tweaks - you can now snap to column guides if they're hidden and you have 'snap to hidden objects' turned on - Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Layer Options view in the layers studio - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th) - Fix for printing of passthrough PDFs - Misc PDF export tweaks - Fix for Column Guides not updating correctly - PDF Import improvements (particularly around tinted colours and unknown fonts) - Application registration and content streaming (see post below) - Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) - Fixed sporadic crash with Pencil Tool (yay!) and hopefully generally improved product stability - Fix for artefacts occasionally noticed in the noise pattern while editing objects with noise on a linear fill - Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path - Fix for terrible rendering problems - particularly affected cropped items with layer effects applied - Added Contour tool. - Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say... - Improved performance with large documents. I will aim to improve this further over time. - Added a new “Divide” blend mode. - Allowed snapping to the bounds of the pixel selection.