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Not using it professionally, else I would not have picked Linux So this will suffice. Thanks!

I'll give those a try, appreciate it. Any workarounds for Photo crashing when exporting files into formats besides afphoto? It still appears to save the file successfully, just crashes right after. I can live with that, kinda, but would be cool to not have it happen.

First off, a big thanks to Wanesty for the guide and ElementalWarrior for all the work and patches that made this possible in the first place. I've set this up the other day and it's working quite nicely. One thing I've ran into: Affinity Photo 2 does not appear to be able to save its preferences/settings at all. It does remember my login, but nothing else. Any preferences I change in the preferences dialog, or even the checkbox in the "new document" popup to prevent it from opening on every start simply does not save. Has anybody else had this problem yet? I could not find anything in this thread here. Photo is also not crashing, at least it doesn't look like it is. So I'm really not sure what could be causing this. Edit: Looks like Photo can at least read the config files. I've generated them in a Windows VM and copied them over. But writing appears to not work. Well, this approach is an acceptable solution for me, at least for the time being

That's great to hear @Mark Ingram, thank you so much!

That's an interesting insight, thank you. But if the EMF data it puts on the clipboard is wrong, how come a "regular" paste of it in an existing document seems to work fine?

Ah, that's interesting! I am actually copying it from somewhere else, specifically Microsoft's Paint, since I often use to to quickly crop screenshots. You are right, copying it from within Photo works just fine. I also tried copying it from IrfanView and Firefox, and that also ended up working. Copying it from Paint, however, produces the error I described. I'll take a look at the raw clipboard data and see if I can figure this out, and then I'll update the OP with whatever additional info I can find on this. Thanks for testing this also. Edit: Okay, learned a few things about clipboards. That viewing their raw image data is not exactly easy, among other things 😁 I'll edit the OP with some useful info though.

You can replicate and see this easily with any image that has pixel perfect, non-anti-aliased edges anywhere, but sure, sample image is attached. photo_bug_sample.zip

I recently noticed that creating a new document using the "New from Clipboard" entry in the "File" menu improperly pastes the image from the clipboard into the document. Here's an example image at 400% scale: Here's the same image, pasted from the clipboard into Affinity Photo using the "New from Clipboard" function; again, scaled to 400% after the fact: Now, not just the visuals are messed up, but also the image dimensions. The original image is 72x38 pixels, while the one pasted into Photo is 73x39 pixels. In Photo itself, the dimensions are shown as 72.3x38.3 pixels. So, to sum it up: the image from the clipboard gets incorrectly resized ever so slightly, messing up the original and also setting weird floating point dimensions on the document. Edit: After carl123 also tested this, it became clear this doesn't always happen. Here are clear reproduction steps: Open the attached sample image in Microsoft's Paint. Copy it to the clipboard from within Paint. Use "New from Clipboard" in Affinity Photo to create a new document with the sample image in the clipboard. Observe the described bug. photo_bug_sample.zip

Ah, sweet! Thanks for the heads up :)

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Angle snapping for control nodes still doesn't seem to be a thing, even though it's been a topic for a while now (https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/10200-how-do-i-make-bezier-angle-snap-to-45-or-90-degrees/). Any updates on that? I see this as a very basic feature and consider it weird that Designer still doesn't have it.