MattP

I suspect this may be if you are using a non-UK English setup? Hopefully the new build (just releasing right now!) should fix this - sorry

I’ll have a look into that bug

Status: Beta 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 an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes This Time - Potentially huge performance improvements for large documents. We've spent a long time looking at this and have improved performance many-fold for large documents and improved scalability. If you have particular documents that still appear 'too slow' then feel free to share them with me and I'll do my best to look into them - Memory handling improvements - Fixed PDF Export group opacity potentially being applied twice - Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard - Localisation improvements

What awesome work!! Bravo!!!

What the heck!?!?! Mind-blowing!!!!

Fantastic!

Wow!!!

Quite right, @Alfred, it was an Exige - they're very similar, but just not the same I didn't comment because I'm busy with other tasks and I don't really have anything thrilling to add... Yes, I wrote the Mesh fill in DrawPlus, I know what to type and where to make it in Affinity Designer - the bigger issue is the tool itself, which takes longer to write, but my main reason for not adding it yet is that I'm still favouring the addition of a different type of gradient, that achieves what people are trying to do with a Mesh, but in a much neater, more manageable way... I don't really want to add 'bloat' (a tool that's there 'just because Illustrator has it') when we could do something better, but I understand the frustration of not having it (or the other option) at present... But once I add something, it's there forever - and I'm not sure if I want to commit to having the traditional Mesh Fill tool forever? Perhaps I have to, but any time spent writing that is time NOT spent writing the thing that I think would be better, so it's hard to justify, if you see what I mean?

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 an incremental update to the 1.9.1 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes This Time - A few fixes for opening documents which contain embedded documents. - Fix for dragging an asset which contains an artboard into the document. - Fix for exporting large images occasionally failing. - OpenAsset fixes. Changes Since 1.9.1 - Fix for insta-crash encountered in the Vector Brush tool on 'Undo' action. - Fix for inability to create a new Object Style if the only difference was a property of the stroke. - Added support for OpenType reverse chaining contextual single substitutions.- Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.).- Unsplash stock panel functional again. - Typography panel performance improvements.- Help improvements.- Localisation improvements. - Fix for Assets and Symbols transforming greatly when dragged onto resized artboards. - Small fixes for occasional misbehaviour of placed PDFs. - Fix for OpenAsset issues. - Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. - Hopefully fixed an occasional problem with the New Document dialog not showing content after tabbing away to another app and back again. - Renamed the export area options to something more friendly (on the Export dialog). - Misc visual fixes for menu items that were not the correct (app) colour scheme.

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 1.9.2 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 an incremental update to the 1.9.1 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Matt Changes Since 1.9.1 - Fix for insta-crash encountered in the Vector Brush tool on 'Undo' action. - Fix for inability to create a new Object Style if the only difference was a property of the stroke. - Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.).- Unsplash stock panel functional again. - Small fixes for occasional misbehaviour of placed PDFs. - Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. - Localisation improvements.

Status: Beta 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 an incremental update to the 1.9.1 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes This Time - Fix for insta-crash encountered in the Vector Brush tool on 'Undo' action. - Fix for inability to create a new Object Style if the only difference was a property of the stroke. - Hopefully add a fix for the slow startup issue encountered since becoming a Universal binary (supporting both Intel and Apple silicon). - Added support for OpenType reverse chaining contextual single substitutions.- Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.).- Unsplash stock panel functional again. - Typography panel performance improvements.- Help improvements.- Localisation improvements. Changes Since 1.9.1 - Fix for Assets and Symbols transforming greatly when dragged onto resized artboards. - Small fixes for occasional misbehaviour of placed PDFs. - Fix for OpenAsset issues. - Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. - Hopefully fixed an occasional problem with the New Document dialog not showing content after tabbing away to another app and back again. - Renamed the export area options to something more friendly (on the Export dialog). - Misc visual fixes for menu items that were not the correct (app) colour scheme.

Status: Beta 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 an incremental update to the 1.9.1 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes this time - Fix for Assets and Symbols transforming greatly when dragged onto resized artboards. - Small fixes for occasional misbehaviour of placed PDFs. - Fix for OpenAsset issues. - Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. - Hopefully fixed an occasional problem with the New Document dialog not showing content after tabbing away to another app and back again. - Renamed the export area options to something more friendly (on the Export dialog). - Misc visual fixes for menu items that were not the correct (app) colour scheme. Changes Since 1.9.0 - Fix for bug in the Brushes list that prevented editing the correct brush! (ahem...) - Fix for occasional crash creating Text Styles. - Fix for small layer icons! (ahem, again...) - Fix for dragging assets into the document if they contain large images. - Hopefully we'll now create smaller Assets when exporting them... - Fixed New Document dialog on older macOS versions. - Fix for some old documents with Constraints failing to load properly if they contained Compound objects. - Fix for Compound node operation mode chooser not being available in the Layers studio. - Fixed Resource Manager on OS X 10.9. - Fix for updating images via Resource Manager causing image scale to be reset. - Improvements to user experience and downloading in My Account. - Fixed printing crash when the document has multiple artboards. - Fixed some icons being very small. - Fixed incorrect cursor issues. - Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings. - Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped. - Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. - Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes). - Fixed crash loading large TGA files. - Fixed monochromatic iconography option not working. - Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. - Fixed marquee selection issues on Apple Silicon devices. - Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF. - Assorted other small fixes.

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 an incremental update to the 1.9.0 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes this time - Fix for bug in the Brushes list that prevented editing the correct brush! (ahem...) - Fix for occasional crash creating Text Styles. - Fix for small layer icons! (ahem, again...) - Fix for dragging assets into the document if they contain large images. - Hopefully we'll now create smaller Assets when exporting them... Changes Since 1.9.0 - Fixed New Document dialog on older macOS versions. - Fix for some old documents with Constraints failing to load properly if they contained Compound objects. - Fix for Compound node operation mode chooser not being available in the Layers studio. - Fixed Resource Manager on OS X 10.9. - Fix for updating images via Resource Manager causing image scale to be reset. - Improvements to user experience and downloading in My Account. - Fixed printing crash when the document has multiple artboards. - Fixed some icons being very small. - Fixed incorrect cursor issues. - Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings. - Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped. - Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. - Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes). - Fixed crash loading large TGA files. - Fixed monochromatic iconography option not working. - Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. - Fixed marquee selection issues on Apple Silicon devices. - Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF. - Assorted other small fixes.

We've just fixed this - it'll be in the next build. Sorry!

Thanks for this! It looks like your crash was due to one of the controls in the Stroke panel having focus and possibly performing and action while the app was shutting down... I haven't seen the crash before, but with that info we might be able to reproduce it, thank you!

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 1.9.1 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 an incremental update to the 1.9.0 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Matt Changes this time - Fix for some old documents with Constraints failing to load properly if they contained Compound objects. - Improvements to user experience and downloading in My Account. - Fix for some brush packs causing the current brush to become 'stuck' so others could not be chosen. Changes Since 1.9.0 - Fixed printing crash when the document has multiple artboards. - Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings. - Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped. - Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. - Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes). - Fixed crash loading large TGA files. - Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. - Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF. - Assorted other small fixes.

Status: Beta 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 an incremental update to the 1.9.0 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes this time - Fixed New Document dialog on older macOS versions. - Fix for some old documents with Constraints failing to load properly if they contained Compound objects. - Fix for Compound node operation mode chooser not being available in the Layers studio. - Fixed Resource Manager on OS X 10.9. - Fix for updating images via Resource Manager causing image scale to be reset. - Improvements to user experience and downloading in My Account. Changes Since 1.9.0 - Fixed printing crash when the document has multiple artboards. - Fixed some icons being very small. - Fixed incorrect cursor issues. - Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings. - Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped. - Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. - Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes). - Fixed crash loading large TGA files. - Fixed monochromatic iconography option not working. - Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. - Fixed marquee selection issues on Apple Silicon devices. - Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF. - Assorted other small fixes.

Could you screenshot this for me please?

Here you go! original_cat.afdesign

Mac. He likes his mice to have less buttons...

While we're waiting, here's my own cat, Brian... helping out, thinking about some terribly tricky code, I'm sure... or he could be sleeping?

(I'm just building it with the Cat tool rigged to generate the original Cat Shape, so I can share the file with any other interested minds, lol! Hang in there!)

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 1.9.1 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 an incremental update to the 1.9.0 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Matt Changes Since 1.9.0 - Fixed printing crash when the document has multiple artboards. - Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings. - Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped. - Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. - Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes). - Fixed crash loading large TGA files. - Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. - Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF. - Assorted other small fixes.

Status: Beta 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 an incremental update to the 1.9.0 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes Since 1.9.0 - Fixed printing crash when the document has multiple artboards. - Fixed some icons being very small. - Fixed incorrect cursor issues. - Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings. - Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped. - Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. - Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes). - Fixed crash loading large TGA files. - Fixed monochromatic iconography option not working. - Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. - Fixed marquee selection issues on Apple Silicon devices. - Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF. - Assorted other small fixes.

Yes, v_kyr is right, I meant the *original* cat shape - the one cat shape to rule them all... I might make it show that Cat shape at random on Friday 13th