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Serif decided to sell their soul to crappy Canva. A great product is dying.

Superb. Thanks a lot.

First off, AWESOME job on Version 2!! 👍 I can not wait to switch to V2. One thing I have noticed is the FAQ mentioned that V2 files are not backward compatible. V2 files can not to be open in V1. I guess it is recommended to completely uninstall V1 prior using V2? Does V2 import my existing preferences?

Quick update on this issue: It turned out this glitch effect was caused by a dying Radeon graphic card. I have replaced the AMD Radeon HD 7950 with the exact same model. Now, random glitches are gone! Hope this helps...

@Alex M Thanks. What hardware are you using? Glad I am not alone. Photoshops performance is terrible, though.

@Dan C Thanks, I am sorry to confirm the same issue with Affinity Photo Customer Beta (1.10.5.270). Metal acceleration is enabled. Glitches show up with and without "Preserve alpha" settings enabled.

Today, The glitch occurred when I applied a gaussian blur to pixel layer. It was impossible to guess the modification. Disabling metal acceleration will prevent those glitches, though. Anything else I can do? Is it a graphic card issue?

@Chris B The glitch is totally random. It's happening with Live Filters enabled. When I add a new curve layer and zoom in and out 10 times, everything looks good. However next time the glitch shows up again. Screenrecord-Glitch-withAffinityStore1.10.4 -WebMPEG4-2000kbps.mp4 testfile.afphoto.zip

@Patrick Connor Wow. That is an impressive bugfix speed! Thank you! I have upgraded to 1.10.4. I'm sorry to confirm that the glitch effect while zoom in/out still shows up. It is happening randomly on white background, type faces, embedded PNGs or rectangle color boxes. Update: It is occurring with Live Filter Layers. I have applied a Unsharp Mask filter to an image. When I disable the Live Filter, everything looks good. Are you able to reproduce this?

@Alex M Yes, It's happening in Affinity Photo 1.10.1 too.

@DEF13 Thanks for bringing this up. I have experiencing the same issue on macOS Mojave and Affinity Photo 1.10.3.

@MEB When I turn off Metal computer acceleration, the weird background distortion does not occur. I hope this helps. I do not want to disable acceleration. Specs

@pruus Thanks, Checking Preserve alpha resolves this issue. However the background distortion still looks weird to me. A white background does make more sense to me.

Affinity Photo 1.10.1 shows random black-white background distortion when I apply a Gaussian Blur to a PNG with alpha mask. I have attached a screen recording. It's happening on macOS 10.14.6, Affinity Photo 1.10.1 Steps to reproduce the behavior: Take a screenshot in macOS Open that screenshot.png in Affinity Photo Add Gaussian Blur and change the radius to more 50px

Yes, that is the expected behaviour 😉

Interesting, it looks like Catalina specific issue.

Yes, I am able to open the SVG file as well in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. Make sure to copy and paste the complete SVG code.

Which print settings are you using? Does Affinity Photo for Mac crash while opening the macOS print dialog? I am not able to reproduce it running Mojave 10.14.6

Unfortunately, I am not able to reproduce this issue using the exact same Macbook Pro , Mojave 10.14.6 and Affinity Photo 1.8.4. I tried to rebuilt your workflow, but artifacts issue does not appear. Could you share your workflow step by step?

Sounds fantastic! Great work

Thanks for sharing. Indeed PDF-XChange Editor Plus ships with some interesting features. It's Windows only, though. As already pointed out PDF-XChange Editor Plus is an PDF-Editor and PDF Viewer for simple office tasks. It's not intended for prepress. Kind of strange argument. Pre-flighting is a essential step in prepress. It reduces costs and minimises undesired results. For now, I will stick with Acrobat Pro.

Yes, advanced custom preflight checks would be a great

With a Acrobat Pro background PDF Checkpoint is not a serious replacement. It's missing so many basic features e.g, PDF/X Output Intents, PDF conversion settings.

Did you find a solution? I do experience the exact same export error message. It turns out that old PostScript fonts are causing the issue.

Thank you. Sounds good to me. Totally agree. Even Adobe's Acrobat Pro 2017 single licence is within the same $500 price range.