ashf

Would be nice if you could make it more distinctive.
It's too vague.

Could be good but it's not easy task.
Also Affinity still lacks basic features such as non-destructive(vector based) warping so they need to be implemented before A.I. thing...

Why the  post date is May 7...?

Yes, because it's beta.
But look at them. vertical writing was requested only 2 months ago and there aren't many Asian testers.
Affiniy still has no plan to implement it after 6 years, on the other hand  not only vertical writing but implementation of every feature in VectorStyler is crazy fast compare to Affinity.
Soon VectorStyler will surpass Affinity in typography feature and has already surpassed in many features such as warping, gradient mesh and so on.

I'm satisfied with Affinity and not blaming Serif, but they should look at VectorStyler and think how the development should be.

That's the one thanks ashf

Could be good but it's not easy task.
Also Affinity still lacks basic features such as non-destructive(vector based) warping so they need to be implemented before A.I. thing...

Affinity does not handle thumbnails at all in the File Explorer dialogs. That would be Windows, or a user-installed codec.

Could be good but it's not easy task.
Also Affinity still lacks basic features such as non-destructive(vector based) warping so they need to be implemented before A.I. thing...

Thanks for brining this to our attention @ashf, I have raised this as a bug with our tutorial team now and we should hopefully have this updated shortly

Hi @Kai, @K.m,
I'm sorry for the confusion. My original post was edited by someone - I'm trying to find out why. The preview button is indeed included in the current Retail and Betas (both on macOS and Windows). My apologies.
Regarding your question, the Beta is identified as such though the application icons (it should say Beta over the regular icon), in the application menu on macOS (should say Affinity Photo Beta rather than just Affinity Photo or whatever app you are using without the Beta at the end) and application menu icon on Windows (on the left of the File) and Help > About dialog (should say Beta after the build number between parenthesis).
As far as i know this is intended to be a preview for single exports, not a full blown preview/comparison as in Photoshop (save for web) or Fireworks. That would be more appropriate for the Export Persona eventually.

Hm… now that sounds interesting! A hint at an upcoming feature perhaps…?

No. It was withdrawn before the 1.9 beta was released to retail.

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This is the documentation about ai compatibility.
https://helpx.adobe.com/xd/user-guide.html/xd/kb/open-illustrator-files-in-xd.ug.html

I created a request for better ai compatibility. please vote if you like it.
https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/43477989-better-ai-file-compatibility

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A previous beta build made in early May (1.9.4.1068) was close to release but a regression was found just before release that needed fixing. The post remained hidden until a releasable beta was built (1.9.4.1076) so we just reused these release notes and updated the list of fixes and download links

I'll move this to feature request for you.  

Hi both,
No problems here pasting the SVG. 
I right click > Copy SVG code from XD, then just a normal "Paste" in Designer brings in the shape. Are you doing something different? 

Adobe XD(free) can open .ai file.
So rename the file extension to .ai in order to open eps in XD.
Then save the file as SVG.

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… and that's where the Color Overlay effect does exactly what you want, and even in just one step because you don't need the other gradient overlay to convert to grayscale.

It's already mentioned by others before, adapting to Harfbuzz may be the only solution to make Affinity true multilingual.
Adobe, Scribus, Inkscape or LibreOffice uses Harfbuzz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarfBuzz

Greetings,
With the latest version released, I would have expected to see the tiling of windows made possible.  I often work on multiple images at one time, and I often use Affinity to compare documents side by side (in a technical imaging capacity, not creative).  This is so elementary.  And, when I float everything, trying to tile docs myself, if you bring a window near an edge, it automatically snaps to full screen.  I don't don't know if you can turn this off, but I couldn't find it.   In the end I waste so much time just trying to get a pair of windows side by side, and at the same size.  And that's for two windows, I don't even try for four.  Annoying.  PLEASE fix this, it is a badly needed feature.
Also, in this latest version (1.9.1.979), with two windows side by side, you can't tell which window is active.  Normally you click on a window and the frame color "saturates", indicating it is the active window.  In Affinity, nothing.  Am I missing something?
Also, now in adjustments, I used to click on the bar to popup an adjustment,  now I have to click on the "default" thumbnail below the bar.  What is the rational of this change?
Also, there is no way to examine a previous adjustment.  There is nothing that allows you to pop up the old curves to see what you have invoked previously, or maybe I am missing something? 
In photoshop, I could stack one curve adjustment on top of the other.  In Affinity, it seems I have to merge the curves into the image before I can implement another curve.  It kills my history.
I am new to Affinity, so maybe I am missing some of the basics, but certainly the windows tiling and stacking of adjustments is something that needs to be addressed.
Thanks,
Bob

Exactly. Which means you must convert it first outside Illustrator before you can colorize it.
Anyway…
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Now I vaguely rememeber a Serif staff post earlier this year (or older?) that the lack of the "K Only" option in RGB documents is "by design", because, well, there is no "K".

Alright, I've figured it out:
In AI CS5 the technique is… wait for it… basically the same as in Affinity per my example above, except more complicated because first you have to add a clipping path to the placed image, then convert it back to regular path while keeping it grouped with the image, then you can apply multiple fills to the path which is now same size as the image below. Of course, you can do the same workflow in Affinity as well, but why should you, when you can do everything with just layer effects directly on the image layer?