Burny

Thanks for your help !

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Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, 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 you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here 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.
 
Fixes
Fixed drag and drop of files into Application Fixed crash on Windows 10 when opening a file from the recent menu Fixed blown colours shown incorrectly after colour conversion Fixed Glyph Browser fails to show the selected font Fixed new Artistic Text from jiggling as it is dragged out Improved stroke expansion Changed text to always render at full quality when typing Fixed Font popup font list and search to be case insensitive Fixed Character Panel flashes when you first open it Fixed black window border on some dialogs Fixed Raster Brush Editing dialog showing a vertical scrollbar Fixed floating panels don't stay attached when one is hidden Fixed PDF export of embedded documents (thanks claycle) Fixed PDF import of images with alpha channels of a differing size to the colour channels (thanks pixeldroid) Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour from a recent swatch

Hi Burny,
 
Thanks for that! I'll look at fixing this in the future, but right now you can get your shapes to reappear by just selecting them and choosing Layer->Fill Mode->Winding. There's actually an error in the 'Add' function that I need to fix, but just choosing 'Winding' as the fill mode will give you usable results for the moment...
 
Sorry about that,
Matt

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased.

This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, 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 you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here 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.
 
Fixes
Added new Font Family control to match macOS version Added support for Dials Fixed colour profile loading to ensure all profiles are loaded despite earlier errors Fixed crash when the GPU device is lost (this can happen when drivers are updated, or GPUs are switched, with technology such as NVIDIA Optimus) Fixed failure to export as PDF when a document contains very small objects Improved performance of UI elements on dialogs Fixed printing colour profile conversion Detect whether the application will crash due to applications such as RivaTuner injecting code into our application (and display a warning) Fixed rulers not drawing correctly in light UI Fixed Text Style panel text being aliased Added support for planar CMYK TIFF Fixed exporting a multi-selection of overlapping objects with background, drawing with artefacts Fixed slice matting reverting to None Added progress when committing a refined selection Improvements to Selection Refinement Fixed crash when reading malformed TIFF files Fixed white flash on start-up Fixed Tab Stop values and Show Text in points Removed matting of 'None' from jpeg slices Fixed SVG import to work with scaled drawing Added missing 'Make Global' option to Swatches panel Changed Zoom panel appearance to match macOS version Fixed alignment of colour swatches on Tools panel Fixed crash expanding a symbol that contains an image inside a vector layer Fixed cancelling the creation of an adjustment preset adding it regardless Fixed crash when resizing documents or canvas to very small sizes Fixed crash when attempting to zoom to a node which has zero size Fixed crash when the highlighted blend mode is unhighlighted Fixed crash when attempting to load any EPS file that will fail to load Fixed crash when copying symbols with frame text Fixed slices not drawing correctly after zoom Added missing Print dialog buttons Fixed crash when dragging a compound layer Fixed odd pixel rounding in the document view with some display scales Added Hide Layer / Show Layer menu items Fixed duplicating artboards with symbols

Time to hit the open road!
 
Hi all, here are a couple of recent fun designs for my Redbubble store. Created in Designer 1.6 b4.
 
I wanted to try something different with a mostly all line line style for a slightly more sophisticated look for products and clothing. The new lock and hide features really came in handy on this piece.
 
If you're a Vespa or Lambretta fan you'll notice that the logos aren't exactly accurate. To avoid treading on any copyright issues I recreated and designed my own similar versions from scratch for these. Another aspect made easy in Designer. :-) 
 
More views at my store. https://www.redbubble.com/people/kevincreative?asc=u
 
Vroom!!
 
 

Hiyaaa.
 
I've been trying to think of ways to make use of the mad zoom in affinity and I thought a great way to demonstrate it would be to show a person standing on the earth, at the correct scale. So I did. Then I made a fake flat Earth video, because giggles. There may be some naughty words and I must warn you all, the rest of my youtube channel is very silly and quite offensive.
 
 

Here's one of an ongoing serie about the liberation of the city Hengelo (NL). It shows Lt. Gaiger with crew who's tank survived an attack with 3 Panzerfausts. 

One of the latest. 

Hi. Looong time Photoshop user here, my first PS came on floppy's. I still use Adobe professionally at work but I wanted a cheaper photo editor at home. An alternative who isn't bogged down with options I never use / touch. So Affinity it was! Black and white colorization was on my bucket list for a long time. So I used it to learn Affinity Photo. Learning new techniques along with new software is generally not a good idea. But AP passed on all fronts. I like it so much I even use it as my personal photo editor.
 
I'll update this thread from time to time if it's appreciated. 
 

 

 

Hey guys,
I thought I'd post a few of my paintings after using Affinity on my new iPad with the Apple Pencil.
Im loving this app for painting on weekends as I use Photoshop on a daily basis for my work as a concept artist/matte painter for film and TV.
Im still getting the hang of it but it's fun.
 

Yes, it has been implemented and will be available in the next release

Hi, there.
About this feature on the Mac version:
New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites.
I suppose we still don't have it on the Windows side. Is it planned for the first release of the 1.6 version?
Thanks a lot and best regards! =)

Hi, this should be fixed in the next beta.

Hi Burny,
Welcome to the Affinity Forums!  This is a known issue and should be fixed in the next beta! 

hello charater panel blur
Great to have a new beta

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features
Requirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased.

This is the third beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, 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 you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here 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.
 
Fixes
Fixed document draw for display scales other than 100% and 200% Changed Colour Picker "Presets" to "Radius" text Fixed crash when attempting to open documents which we don’t understand Reduced memory usage during selection refinement Fixed stabiliser context bar options not updating when switching modes (thanks Aammppaa) Fixed transforming objects leaving part of the original object position visible Fixed crash when attempting to re-open a document which had failed to autosave Added "Show All" and "Unlock All" Added Russian translations Fixed failure to load multiple image files at the same time Fixed auto slices not moving when the parent objects move Fixed Artboards to stop them adding their grids and guides if they are part of the selection that is to be transformed Fixed snapping relative to Artboards Added support for tablets being plugged/unplugged while the app is running Fixed Print dialog has truncated text and list control Fixed CMYK values being able to exceed 100% Fixed Path text baseline control having wrong ranges Fixed Character panel font type dropdown is not remembered when docked Fixed files saved with selections are not reflected correctly when reopened Improved line breaks for Chinese text Fixed PDF import of clipped groups containing a single line of text Fixed PDF import of vector clips Fixed preview brush nozzles not representing the current tablet rotation/tilt/angle