VolkerMB

Hi there!
While 1.10.x and 2.0.4 do work fine at my end with setting custom dpi to anything but 100/125/150/175%, the new 2.1.0 doesn't. That is a step backward.
The Affinity apps do start despite having set Windows 10 to a custom dpi value, but the moment I want to call the colour dialogue in Affinity the apps crash without any warning or any crash report. The are also reports here in the forum that it does happen with the gradient tool, too.
Would be highly appreciated if this regression could be fixed with the next version/update.
Best, Volker

Hallo,
während Sunny Burnett Probleme mit Affinity Photo hat, hatte ich die immer mit Photoshop. Weil Photoshop ein schlechtes Programm ist? Mitnichten. Ich war nur vorher anderes gewohnt. Und so dürfte es auch hier sein: Affinity macht manches anders als Photoshop. Ob besser oder schlechter, sei dahingestellt. Wer jahrzehntelang BMW gefahren ist, tut sich am Angang im Umgang mit einem Mercedes schwer ("Huch, wo ist denn den Handbremse geblieben?"). Wir haben einfach eintrainierte Abläufe, die plötzlich nicht mehr in gewohnter Weise funktionieren. Ging mir genauso. Da hilft nur: Viel probieren und viel lesen. Vielleicht stellt man am Ende ja fest: Beide Programme sind effizient - jedes auf seine Weise.
Best,
Volker
 

It seems that all the apps have lost steam... at least on my computer (Ryzen 7 3700, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, RX5700XT (8GB)). I've encountered a similar problem to @4dimage with the glyph browser, too. Without having measured it precisely, I'd say all V2.0 apps run half as fast as V1.x, sometimes even slower. Currently I prefer to use the older iterations of the Affinity apps if none of the newer features are required for the job.
Let's hope, V2.0.1 will fix some of the issues.

It seems that all the apps have lost steam... at least on my computer (Ryzen 7 3700, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, RX5700XT (8GB)). I've encountered a similar problem to @4dimage with the glyph browser, too. Without having measured it precisely, I'd say all V2.0 apps run half as fast as V1.x, sometimes even slower. Currently I prefer to use the older iterations of the Affinity apps if none of the newer features are required for the job.
Let's hope, V2.0.1 will fix some of the issues.

Okay, I am back in business! How so?
After I had done the test drive with my friend's Benq display I encountered some wiered situations with my original display configuration: During a session with Affinity Photo both my display went black. Only a restart brought the displays back. The same happend two more times the next day. The reason: Windows switched back to its basic display drivers and discarded AMD's drivers. In total I had to reinstall them three times.
Fortunately I got hold of a used Nvidia RTX 2070 and installed it. What can I say? Colors are rendered correctly on both screens and Windows sticks to Nvidia's drivers. Apparently something was wrong with either my RX 5700xt or AMD's drivers. Who knows...
So, thanks for all the input and suggestions. They've deepend my understanding of color management a lot.

Okay, I am back in business! How so?
After I had done the test drive with my friend's Benq display I encountered some wiered situations with my original display configuration: During a session with Affinity Photo both my display went black. Only a restart brought the displays back. The same happend two more times the next day. The reason: Windows switched back to its basic display drivers and discarded AMD's drivers. In total I had to reinstall them three times.
Fortunately I got hold of a used Nvidia RTX 2070 and installed it. What can I say? Colors are rendered correctly on both screens and Windows sticks to Nvidia's drivers. Apparently something was wrong with either my RX 5700xt or AMD's drivers. Who knows...
So, thanks for all the input and suggestions. They've deepend my understanding of color management a lot.

It seems that all the apps have lost steam... at least on my computer (Ryzen 7 3700, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, RX5700XT (8GB)). I've encountered a similar problem to @4dimage with the glyph browser, too. Without having measured it precisely, I'd say all V2.0 apps run half as fast as V1.x, sometimes even slower. Currently I prefer to use the older iterations of the Affinity apps if none of the newer features are required for the job.
Let's hope, V2.0.1 will fix some of the issues.

Hi All,
Well, it’s been a pretty crazy week since the launch of V2!
This has been a real labour of love for us over the last year or so, and I can’t even begin to describe how hard the development team have worked on it. Not only getting the V2 apps launched, but also of course finally bringing Publisher to iPad. 
With this being our first paid-for upgrade there has understandably been a lot of feedback / questions around future updates and our pricing policies. I thought it was worth addressing / clarifying our position on some of these personally...
Updates to V2 moving forward
Buying V2 not only gets you all the new features you have seen, but we have various updates planned – including many more new features and improvements – which you will get for free. This will continue until such a time that V3 is released. We’re not sure exactly when V3 will be, but I can confirm we are not going to move to anything as regular as an annual upgrade cycle as has been speculated.
It’s worth saying too that V2 does include many under-the-hood changes to our underlying technology, and we have also been investing in several new areas of research recently. Some of these haven’t manifested themselves into new features yet, but overall V2 does give us a better platform to develop on moving forward and I’m sure you will be pleased with the updates V2 will receive.
Updates to V1 moving forward
While we did say on the FAQ that V1 would no longer receive any updates, I want to clarify that was about new feature updates. We will be updating V1 to fix any critical problems caused by operating system updates in the future. So if the next version of macOS breaks V1 we will endeavour to fix it. There will be a point in time when continuing to maintain V1 in this way will not be tenable, but certainly for the foreseeable future we will continue to patch. In fact, we have an update to V1 queued up for release very shortly with some fixes for Ventura and issues caused by a recent Windows security / quality update. 
We will update our FAQ shortly to make that clearer for everyone.
Offer period
In case you didn’t see, I’m pleased to confirm we have decided to run this initial launch offer until 14th December to give everyone the best chance possible to get it if they wish / have a decent amount of time to trial it. 
Upgrade pricing
It’s been really hard to see some of the comments about us not looking after our existing customers – we’re pretty devasted that anyone feels like that to be honest. But the fact is we felt our hands were tied somewhat with being able to offer upgrade pricing in a fair way. The main reason for this was App Store customers (which make up around 35% of our userbase). The problems with that are two-fold: firstly, we didn’t have a way from within V1 to validate an App Store purchase receipt to reliably ensure customers who were entitled to an upgrade could get one; and secondly, we could not find a good way for people to get that discount via the App Store. Us pushing upgrade customers to go exclusively via our own site (including customers who were previously acquired via the app stores) may also have put us in violation of App Store Ts & Cs which we were obviously concerned about.
I’m not saying that these issues were completely insurmountable, but any solutions we came up with would be messy, and most importantly could have resulted in some bona fide V1 customers struggling to get validated and claim their discount. We certainly don’t have the support resource here if we ended up needing to manually validate tens of thousands of receipts for example.
The only option we felt was safe to move forward with was a general launch offer, which would guarantee that every V1 customer could get the discount, whether they purchased directly through us or the App Stores. We knew a side effect of that would mean some new customers would end up receiving that same discount – but we felt that was a better option than V1 customers missing out. It’s also worth saying that while there has been some good press about V2, all our main marketing has been via email and through social media to our followers. In other words, we felt ok about it because we knew the vast majority of people who would find out about it or take advantage of the offer would be existing customers. I would be surprised if over the offer period customers upgrading from V1 didn’t make up more than 90% of our sales.
Overall I do believe us giving a 40% discount, along with the addition of the new Universal Licence of course, is offering fantastic value for money for those who want to upgrade. 
However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. 
We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can.
A comment on no subscription
I do want to say that some of the points above are exactly the reason why software companies move to subscription. Whatever you do with upgrade pricing, you still have the issue of customers who bought the previous version 3 months ago vs. those who have had it 2+ years. Offering perpetual licences also gives the additional overhead of needing to maintain the previous version longer than you would if everyone was on subscription / generally always on the latest version.
We are a small team so some of these complications are not ideal — all we really want to do is focus on developing our latest codebase, push out regular updates and continue with our mission to make great creative software accessible to everyone. 
But it does need to be funded somehow. We know you love our no-subscription model, but there also needs to be a level of appreciation that the alternative is having paid-for upgrades from time to time. That unfortunately comes with its own problems.
All of that said, I have to say we have been blown away with the response to V2 - around 3 times as many people have upgraded in the last week than we expected - and we really can't thank you enough for the support you have shown. More than anything the success of this upgrade puts us in a great place to continue investing heavily in development which is ultimately what it's all about, and we’re super excited to crack on with some great updates coming next year!
All the best,
Ash
This is a duplicate post of a thread that is now locked and moved to the questions forum

I know it is my fault, however, every time I use artboards I run into this issue. And it takes some extra steps to correct it (I always exort it first before I realize something is wrong...).
One example: Create two artboards of size A4 with "force pixel alignment" and "move by whole pixels" switched on. The initial position of the artboards is fine, but the size is not: 2480,3 x 3507,9 px. If you move one of the artboards for any reason and let it snap to the other one you are in trouble afterwards. When moving the artboards now, the position is never an intereger value again but a floating one.
The solution is to swich off "move by whole pixels" so that the artboard position can fall back to full interger values. However, it is a bit counter-intuitive... Maybe a different default setting could help.

There are actually two hyphens in the SVG.
One hyphen is the soft hyphen (00AD).
The other hyphen is the hyphen-minus (002D).
Arial has both of those characters (code-points) mapped to the same glyph.
So Word is just showing what is actually there in the SVG.

Some fonts have no glyph there for soft hyphen (00AD), so nothing appears.
This some-have-it, some-do-not has to be handled by the applications.
Some applications display nothing for soft hyphen (00AD), even if there is a glyph in the font.
That would explain why QuarkXPress, and Inkscape show only one hyphen.
Affinity apps should not be including both of those different hyphens in the SVG.
So that is a bug.
May be technically "correct", but the result is bad.
Which is why other DTP apps, and browsers, do not show the 00AD.

Hallo,
während Sunny Burnett Probleme mit Affinity Photo hat, hatte ich die immer mit Photoshop. Weil Photoshop ein schlechtes Programm ist? Mitnichten. Ich war nur vorher anderes gewohnt. Und so dürfte es auch hier sein: Affinity macht manches anders als Photoshop. Ob besser oder schlechter, sei dahingestellt. Wer jahrzehntelang BMW gefahren ist, tut sich am Angang im Umgang mit einem Mercedes schwer ("Huch, wo ist denn den Handbremse geblieben?"). Wir haben einfach eintrainierte Abläufe, die plötzlich nicht mehr in gewohnter Weise funktionieren. Ging mir genauso. Da hilft nur: Viel probieren und viel lesen. Vielleicht stellt man am Ende ja fest: Beide Programme sind effizient - jedes auf seine Weise.
Best,
Volker
 

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Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, 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.
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Major Improvements
Defer more text composition tasks until required. This results in a notable increase in speed when editing long stories.
General
Fix for double apply of Blend Mode in nodes with clipped children
Fix loading files from paths containing decomposed Unicode
Master Pages
When migrating masters take account of editability of candidate parents. Strengthened candidate name matching to disallow set and mismatched names
Render and Performance
Eliminated inefficiency in placed PDF cache handling
Improved Pages Panel page thumbnail rendering / caching
Fixed possible memory leak on Document Close
Text
Glyph Browser was showing corruption / failing to render emoji
Improve performance of Glyph Browser with emoji fonts by using appropriate resolution bitmaps
Text Style panel samples can be poor quality
Inline pinned nodes were exporting as a spurious character
Highlight individual clauses when IME editing
Resource Manager
Resource Manager cosmetic tweaks, prevented removal of all columns etc
Export
PDF Export - Reduced file export size when multiple copies of the same passthrough PDF are present
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Hi!
It is easy to select multiple objects on a canvas and change their stroke colour/thickness using the stroke panel. However, it seems impossible to add a couple of more strokes via the appearance panel if more than one object is selected. That is a pitty in particular when you deal with text (converted to curves). Currently you have to add the desired strokes to each character individually which is a tedious and time consuming task. Perhaps this could be improved in a future update.
Best,
Volker
 
 

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Auto-update: Available
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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 from 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.
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More fixes for Replace Image transform issues Fixed Stock Panel retrieval for Unsplash ---
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Auto-update: Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.2.998 is now available as a download from the link above.
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Fixes
General
Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time)
Document / Spread setup
Document size presets create incorrectly sized pages if the Document DPI doesn't match the preset DPI
Business card templates shouldn't be facing page
Import / Export / Resources
Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images
Improved Brush and Asset categories alphabetical sort options
Fixed crash choosing Add Pages from File with 'After Last Page' selected
Replacing a scaled Picture Frame image wasn't maintaining placement
Convert to Picture Frame does not use default saved settings, cf Convert to Text Frame
Renaming then re-linking a cropped PDF or AF document scales the un-cropped document
Missing Content Status for placed PDFs
Placed PDF Page Box / Maximum Content calculated incorrectly
Add Pages from File could handle z-order badly when moving page content
Renamed Export Area 'With background' option to avoid confusion. Fixed other Export UI inconsistencies
Text
Added Preferences option to normalise text breaks on copy to clipboard
Unwanted auto-correct capitalisation caused by exclamation and question marks
Inline text objects should not have Text Wrap options enabled
Text Style Editor > Next level should use "[Same Style]" rather than "[No Style]"
Active text Selection on pasteboard not always drawn correctly
Decrement paragraph level would sometimes find the wrong previous style
Fixed potential hang moving pinned nodes
If spaces are overset, squeeze them up to keep the caret within the frame
Performance improvements generating text wrap shapes in complex cases
Table Format Panel previews always rendered as RGB
Hyperlinks to Anchors can point to incorrect Anchors if Anchor name has been duplicated
Paragraph Decoration has no "inherit state" when used as "based on" style
Alignment context toolbar options for table cells don't work
Not enough space to show Text Style shortcut on Windows
General
Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized Artboards or Groups
Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document
Guides added via Guides Manager are now clamped to Spread size
Master Page Guides could be applied incorrectly when a Master is applied to only one page of a facing page Spread
Transform panel ignores ruler origin in line mode
Performance improvements when Preflight panel showing lots of errors / warnings
Printing
Print auto-rotate not always triggered when other paper properties changed
Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects on certain printers
Some Printer Drivers (Canon) return inconsistent status codes while printing
Fixed printing issues when the Print Spooler service has been stopped
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Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Fixes
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Fixes

Fix for some placed PDFs being scaled incorrectly Fix for disappearing master page objects when zooming Fixed crash updating a linked placed document inside a picture frame ---
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Fixes

General
Fixes to mitigate issues with hardware acceleration on some systems
Document Loading
Fixed possible crash when opening files with iCloud based image resources
Fix for documents failing to load due to infinite loop with Constraints and certain document structures
Fixed potential hang while composing text in text frames with non-default Vertical Alignment
Import / Export / Resources
Fix for performance problems when placing an asset which contains images
PDF set for Passthrough crops incorrectly
PDF Export - Fixed crash exporting file with Bookmarks
Updating images via Resource Manager was resetting scale
Resource Manager now sorts by page number
Text
Spelling applied through Paragraph style only takes effect after re-applying the style
Pressing delete whilst unlinking frames causes a crash
Fixed possible crash when inserting a TOC
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Fixes

General
Fixed Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales
Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file
Fixed crash on open for a number of reported 1.8 / beta documents
Fixed intermittent crash on applying Master Page
Import / Export / Resources
Fixed blocking that could occur when placing especially large raster heavy PDF files
Updating a PDF via Resource Manager resets Interpret / Passthrough state
IDML Import - Fixed unlocking of layers coming from IDML Import
IDML Import - Fix for Text Styles not applied correctly with specific file
IDML Import - Fix for rotated items in Picture Frames
IDML Import - For for failure to import some text items in Table cells
IDML Import - Fix for crash on import of specific file(s)
PDF Import - Improvements to how PDF Import handles text lists. Ambiguity between Roman numeral "c" and Latin letter "c" is handled better.
PDF Import - Fix for clipping paths being incorrectly identified as redundant and discarded in some circumstances
EPS Import - Fixed failure to detect colour space when the EPS only had shades
Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files
Placed landscape afpub files could be treated as portrait under certain circumstances
Fixed EMFs not rendering on non-RGBA documents
Copy As SVG prevents Affinity data being added to the clipboard
Fixed Resource Manager selection issues
Resource Manager Replace button enabled state was mismanaged under certain circumstances
Tools and Rendering
Transform Objects Separately was ignored for some operations
Align buttons were modifying master page content when used in "Edit Detached" mode
Fix for parts of some master page objects / paragraph decorations not showing in bleed on regular pages
Recent colours are now updated when changing a Table cell Fill or Stroke
Text
Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible
Paragraph > Justification > Minimum, Desired and Maximum word spacing controls inoperative
Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped
Added Glyph Picker for Initial Words characters
Interactive > Go To Hyperlink can crash if no target
Fix for wrap settings on pinned objects not always updating correctly
Fixed scaling instability with inline text objects under certain circumstances
Objects inserted into Master Page text were not updating correctly on regular pages
Truncate long Find and Replace MRU menu entries to prevent UI overflow
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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

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Changes
Fixed Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales Fixed EMFs not rendering on non-RGBA documents Fixed performance of Posterise when hardware acceleration is enabled Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file (introduced in 944 beta) Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes) Fixed being unable to create custom export presets for PDF export Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped  Fixed Copy As SVG preventing Affinity data being added to the clipboard  Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible  Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents Fixed Panorama Erase from Source Mask tool artifacts Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files Fixed crash when loading specific CR3 file 1.9.1.944 release notes

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.9.0
Changes in this Build
A highlights explanation can be found here: 5 things you should know about Affinity Designer 1.9
The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.0 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.5) are as follows:
New Features:
Powerful contour tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves (learn more) Select Same to efficiently match attributes such as fill colour, stroke colour, stroke weight, transparency, blend mode or shape type (learn more) Select Object to select all objects of a certain type within your document to make editing even easier (learn more) Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card) Studio presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations (also learn more) Linked images and Resource Manager (learn more) PDF passthrough option added Save As Package feature to collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder (learn more) Divide blend mode added Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100% (learn more) Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Blend Ranges dialog in the Layers Panel Curves numeric field controls Blend modes for mask layers Added export preview to export dialog (for raster types) Create brushes from current pixel selection (learn more) Content sync of store purchases (requires registration).
This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixes & Improvements:
Elliptical marquee automatically creates from centre Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path Snap to pixel selection bounds Configurable bleed and margin guide colours When creating a global colour from an object also apply it Filter effects now work properly with global colours Original file name no longer saved as "Title" in PDF, after renaming the file Fixed inability to change document dimensions while aspect ratio was unlocked When items copied as SVG they could not be pasted as text Fixed Tools getting stuck in the hand tool cursor after using spacebar + alt and click to zoom out Added Canvas Rotation option to Preferences New Samples Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements Performance improvements  
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

Hi @WolframH,
you can select the desired preset in the export dialog(ue). It lets you choose from a wide range of PDF presets.
 

Hi @WolframH,
you can select the desired preset in the export dialog(ue). It lets you choose from a wide range of PDF presets.
 

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta - Release Candidate
Purpose: New features, performance, fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

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Changes
Fixed crash loading LABA16 TIFF Temporarily removed Export Timelapse feature (will be back in a future version) 1.9.0.923 (RC4) release notes

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Status: Customer Beta - Release Candidate
Purpose: New features, performance, fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Changes
Fixed crash re-entering Astrophotography Persona Fixed being unable to install macros via content sync Fixed images always being imported as embedded regardless of image placement policy 1.9.0.911 (RC3) release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.
Changes
Added Mitre Limit to Contour Tool Added Export as Timelapse Fixed BoolOps on contoured curves Improved PDF import of alpha-only images Removed Export Preview (it will come back later, with improvements) Added OpenAsset integration (requires existing OpenAsset account) Fixed crashes relating to expanded groups in Layers panel Fixed BMP loading for files with offset data Enable PDF Passthrough Fixed crash after clicking Texture panel in Brush Editor  1.9.0.885 release notes