MattP

Absolutely awesome as usual!

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 - 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 Changes Since 1.8.6 - 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.

I don’t disagree - I just haven’t written that yet and if I add it, I don’t know if there’s time to update the help and videos....

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 - 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 Changes Since 1.8.6 - 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: 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 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 - 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 Changes Since 1.8.x - 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

Thanks ronny! Sorry I've not replied earlier - everything's. very busy here - both in and out of work! Take care mate!

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 Since 1.8.6 - 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 - Enable image placement options in Designer (you can now choose Linked or Embedded) - 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: 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 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 - 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 Changes Since 1.8.x - 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

Hmmm, that's interesting - I'll take a look, thanks!

WOW!!!! 🤩

Good Heavens!!!! Well done to 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 1.9.0 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 Since 1.8.6 - 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 - Enable image placement options in Designer (you can now choose Linked or Embedded) - 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: 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 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 - 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 Changes Since 1.8.x - 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

I keep looking at this... it's just AMAZINGLY GOOD!!!!

What the hecky-deck!?!?!

So cute!

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 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 - 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! Changes Since 1.9.0 - Updated to work correctly with new 1.8.6 Mac App Store version - Universal build, so includes Intel and Apple silicon code - Fix for Contour Tool crashing and boolean geometry operation crashing introduced last time... - 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

Ha! Okay, fair enough! Yes, I'll build the Beta (1.9.0.10) tomorrow when I've done adding it to the iPad version too (don't want to commit it until it's finished in all products).

I don't see why not, but don't forget you could just set the top level layer itself to 'Force off' and see on document exactly what you'll be getting at Export time? I don't know why you wouldn't want to see what you're outputting while designing?

This is just a view option though - what about output? I've added this to the next Beta, hopefully building it for you tomorrow. It's fully hierarchical, you can inherit, force on or off at each stage. It's the most flexible approach and is supported in all our raster output. [Edited to say - WOW, that's awful compression on Twitter - sorry!]

What the heck!?! That’s awesome! Well done!

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 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 This is basically a rebuild of 1.9.0.8, but with working vector brushes.... Sorry... (again!) Changes this time - Updated to work correctly with new 1.8.6 Mac App Store version - Universal build, so includes Intel and Apple silicon code - Fix for Contour Tool crashing and boolean geometry operation crashing introduced last time... - 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... Changes Since 1.9.0 - 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

Should be fixed by this, sorry:

Hopefully fixed by this, sorry: