Andy Somerfield

Purpose: Improvements / Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received   :)  We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live.
 
Improvements / Fixes
 
- PSD import improvements - Snapping and ruler drawing tweaks - Fix for canvas rotation showing artefacts on non-retina machines and occasional flicker - Panorama improvements, including being able to stitch panoramas from RAW files - Fix for certain Type 1 fonts failing to work if they don’t contain cmap data - Fix for path text crashing when the nodes of a path are deleted - Fix for sharing to Photos/Aperture occasionally producing a low resolution image - Fix or dither command on non-RGB images - Restore with the correct panels visible on application startup - Improved PDF export - particularly with spot colours and gradients - Fix for Monochrome extension freezing when saving your changes - Disable gradient tool options when there is no selection as they don’t achieve anything

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. Please note that if you use features which are only present in the Beta version then save your document, it will no longer open in the Mac App Store version.
 
This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received  :)  We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- PSD import improvements
- Snapping and ruler drawing tweaks - Fix for dark background accidentally displayed around artboards on some machines - Fix for canvas rotation showing artefacts on non-retina machines and occasional flicker - Fix for certain Type 1 fonts failing to work if they don’t contain cmap data - Fix for path text crashing when the nodes of a path are deleted - Fix for sharing to Photos/Aperture occasionally producing a low resolution image - Artboard labels can now contain emojis and special characters, just like layer names - Allow dropping images onto the pasteboard of an artboard document - Restore with the correct panels visible on application startup - Improved PDF export - particularly with spot colours and gradients - Artboards cloned from other artboards should now inherit their grids and also export options - Disable gradient tool options when there is no selection as they don’t achieve anything

Purpose: Improvements / Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received   :)  We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live.
 
Improvements / Fixes
 
- PSD import improvements - Snapping and ruler drawing tweaks - Fix for canvas rotation showing artefacts on non-retina machines and occasional flicker - Panorama improvements, including being able to stitch panoramas from RAW files - Fix for certain Type 1 fonts failing to work if they don’t contain cmap data - Fix for path text crashing when the nodes of a path are deleted - Fix for sharing to Photos/Aperture occasionally producing a low resolution image - Fix or dither command on non-RGB images - Restore with the correct panels visible on application startup - Improved PDF export - particularly with spot colours and gradients - Fix for Monochrome extension freezing when saving your changes - Disable gradient tool options when there is no selection as they don’t achieve anything

Purpose: Improvements / Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received   :)  We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live.
 
Improvements / Fixes
 
- PSD import improvements - Snapping and ruler drawing tweaks - Fix for canvas rotation showing artefacts on non-retina machines and occasional flicker - Panorama improvements, including being able to stitch panoramas from RAW files - Fix for certain Type 1 fonts failing to work if they don’t contain cmap data - Fix for path text crashing when the nodes of a path are deleted - Fix for sharing to Photos/Aperture occasionally producing a low resolution image - Fix or dither command on non-RGB images - Restore with the correct panels visible on application startup - Improved PDF export - particularly with spot colours and gradients - Fix for Monochrome extension freezing when saving your changes - Disable gradient tool options when there is no selection as they don’t achieve anything

Hello!
 
We've got a new app coming out - for the latest generation Apple TV (Late 2015)!
 
It's a learning / teaching tool for users of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.
 
For now, it simply contains all our video tutorial content from the website / Vimeo. We'll of course be adding more focussed, appropriate content over time. We'll also be doing a better job of categorising the content and grouping it together.
 
If you have an Apple TV (Late 2015) and would like to beta test this new tool - please email tv@seriflabs.com and tell us your email address (the email must be associated with an active Apple ID) - we'll then add you to the TestFlight beta program and you should receive further installation instructions.
 
Thanks!
 
Andy.

We are going to make a professional Affinity DAM application - stay tuned in 2016 for more information ;)
 
Thanks,
 
Andy.

Another illustration trying the latest beta.
 
More details and thoughts on it in my Behance portfolio. 
 
https://www.behance.net/gallery/31578563/1957-Chevy-Corvette-Roadster-Affinity-D-Vectors
 
 

Purpose: Improvements / Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received  :)  We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live.
 
Improvements / Fixes
 
- Fix for Photos extensions not maintaining your edits and working on lower resolution versions of your images
- Fix for unwanted colour gradients appearing in Panorama results - Fix for ‘Merge Selected’ not always generating the expected results - Fix for crop not correctly affecting the selection and spare channels - Fix for DNG import from DxO Optics - Fix for auto-levels on LAB documents - Develop Persona now responds correctly to numeric input to adjust brush hardness - Added ‘Transparent Background’ menu item to the Document menu - Panorama inpainting improvements - Implemented font-fallback logic. This means that users typing characters which are not in the current font should see the character represented by a fallback font automatically - Recently used fonts section of the font dropdown now also includes all fonts in the current document - Fix for crash when closing documents - Miscellaneous translation improvements - PSD export now handles Registration colour and tint. Miscellaneous import improvements for compatibility with other PSD originators - Fix for rotation and shear not working reliably from the Transform panel - Fix for redraw issues while transforming objects with wide strokes - Fix for groups of horizontal or vertical lines causing stability issues in some cases - Export Slice stability improvements - Improved snapping for the Fill Tool - TIFF export now correctly supports alpha in all colour formats - Fix for importing very large TIFF images - Many PDF export improvements - Print panel now restores itself correctly to the last used settings

Purpose: Improvements / Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received  :)  We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live.
 
Improvements / Fixes
 
- Fix for Photos extensions not maintaining your edits and working on lower resolution versions of your images
- Fix for unwanted colour gradients appearing in Panorama results - Fix for ‘Merge Selected’ not always generating the expected results - Fix for crop not correctly affecting the selection and spare channels - Fix for DNG import from DxO Optics - Fix for auto-levels on LAB documents - Develop Persona now responds correctly to numeric input to adjust brush hardness - Added ‘Transparent Background’ menu item to the Document menu - Panorama inpainting improvements - Implemented font-fallback logic. This means that users typing characters which are not in the current font should see the character represented by a fallback font automatically - Recently used fonts section of the font dropdown now also includes all fonts in the current document - Fix for crash when closing documents - Miscellaneous translation improvements - PSD export now handles Registration colour and tint. Miscellaneous import improvements for compatibility with other PSD originators - Fix for rotation and shear not working reliably from the Transform panel - Fix for redraw issues while transforming objects with wide strokes - Fix for groups of horizontal or vertical lines causing stability issues in some cases - Export Slice stability improvements - Improved snapping for the Fill Tool - TIFF export now correctly supports alpha in all colour formats - Fix for importing very large TIFF images - Many PDF export improvements - Print panel now restores itself correctly to the last used settings

Purpose: Improvements / Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received  :)  We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live.
 
Improvements / Fixes
 
- Fix for Photos extensions not maintaining your edits and working on lower resolution versions of your images
- Fix for unwanted colour gradients appearing in Panorama results - Fix for ‘Merge Selected’ not always generating the expected results - Fix for crop not correctly affecting the selection and spare channels - Fix for DNG import from DxO Optics - Fix for auto-levels on LAB documents - Develop Persona now responds correctly to numeric input to adjust brush hardness - Added ‘Transparent Background’ menu item to the Document menu - Panorama inpainting improvements - Implemented font-fallback logic. This means that users typing characters which are not in the current font should see the character represented by a fallback font automatically - Recently used fonts section of the font dropdown now also includes all fonts in the current document - Fix for crash when closing documents - Miscellaneous translation improvements - PSD export now handles Registration colour and tint. Miscellaneous import improvements for compatibility with other PSD originators - Fix for rotation and shear not working reliably from the Transform panel - Fix for redraw issues while transforming objects with wide strokes - Fix for groups of horizontal or vertical lines causing stability issues in some cases - Export Slice stability improvements - Improved snapping for the Fill Tool - TIFF export now correctly supports alpha in all colour formats - Fix for importing very large TIFF images - Many PDF export improvements - Print panel now restores itself correctly to the last used settings

Purpose: Improvements / Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received  :)  We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live.
 
Improvements / Fixes
 
- Fix for Photos extensions not maintaining your edits and working on lower resolution versions of your images
- Fix for unwanted colour gradients appearing in Panorama results - Fix for ‘Merge Selected’ not always generating the expected results - Fix for crop not correctly affecting the selection and spare channels - Fix for DNG import from DxO Optics - Fix for auto-levels on LAB documents - Develop Persona now responds correctly to numeric input to adjust brush hardness - Added ‘Transparent Background’ menu item to the Document menu - Panorama inpainting improvements - Implemented font-fallback logic. This means that users typing characters which are not in the current font should see the character represented by a fallback font automatically - Recently used fonts section of the font dropdown now also includes all fonts in the current document - Fix for crash when closing documents - Miscellaneous translation improvements - PSD export now handles Registration colour and tint. Miscellaneous import improvements for compatibility with other PSD originators - Fix for rotation and shear not working reliably from the Transform panel - Fix for redraw issues while transforming objects with wide strokes - Fix for groups of horizontal or vertical lines causing stability issues in some cases - Export Slice stability improvements - Improved snapping for the Fill Tool - TIFF export now correctly supports alpha in all colour formats - Fix for importing very large TIFF images - Many PDF export improvements - Print panel now restores itself correctly to the last used settings

Purpose: Improvements / Fixes
Status: Release Candidate
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received  :)  We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live.
 
Improvements / Fixes
 
- Fix for Photos extensions not maintaining your edits and working on lower resolution versions of your images
- Fix for unwanted colour gradients appearing in Panorama results - Fix for ‘Merge Selected’ not always generating the expected results - Fix for crop not correctly affecting the selection and spare channels - Fix for DNG import from DxO Optics - Fix for auto-levels on LAB documents - Develop Persona now responds correctly to numeric input to adjust brush hardness - Added ‘Transparent Background’ menu item to the Document menu - Panorama inpainting improvements - Implemented font-fallback logic. This means that users typing characters which are not in the current font should see the character represented by a fallback font automatically - Recently used fonts section of the font dropdown now also includes all fonts in the current document - Fix for crash when closing documents - Miscellaneous translation improvements - PSD export now handles Registration colour and tint. Miscellaneous import improvements for compatibility with other PSD originators - Fix for rotation and shear not working reliably from the Transform panel - Fix for redraw issues while transforming objects with wide strokes - Fix for groups of horizontal or vertical lines causing stability issues in some cases - Export Slice stability improvements - Improved snapping for the Fill Tool - TIFF export now correctly supports alpha in all colour formats - Fix for importing very large TIFF images - Many PDF export improvements - Print panel now restores itself correctly to the last used settings

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. Please note that if you use features which are only present in the Beta version then save your document, it will no longer open in the Mac App Store version.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Pixel selections now honour the current artboard when selecting all / inverting the selection - Deleting the last artboard will not cause you to have a document of zero dimensions - Fix for marching ants disappearing when the canvas is rotated - Fix for text blurring on some buttons in the UI for retina screens - Export persona’s Slice panel now sets the exportable state for all items in the selection, not just the current item - Fix for objects placed on the spread in an artboard document disappearing when moved again - Move Tool’s marquee drag is no longer hidden when the ‘Hide selection while dragging’ option is set - Fix for marquee selection within artboards not working - Artboard documents without transparency should draw empty artboards with an opaque background - Canvas rotation now makes the grid rotate properly - Many PDF export and import improvements - Fix for many crashes seen after loading documents with saved history where an artboard has been used - Fix for document view having visible borders at different zoom levels and pan locations - Fix snapping marker rendering in the Node Tool - The performance cat has lost his ‘Miaow’ in the Preferences dialog (and Matt mourns its loss) - Artboard labels can now be clicked to select the artboard easily. We’ll make this draggable for next time so you can drag the artboard from here too.

Hello!
 
We've got a new app coming out - for the latest generation Apple TV (Late 2015)!
 
It's a learning / teaching tool for users of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.
 
For now, it simply contains all our video tutorial content from the website / Vimeo. We'll of course be adding more focussed, appropriate content over time. We'll also be doing a better job of categorising the content and grouping it together.
 
If you have an Apple TV (Late 2015) and would like to beta test this new tool - please email tv@seriflabs.com and tell us your email address (the email must be associated with an active Apple ID) - we'll then add you to the TestFlight beta program and you should receive further installation instructions.
 
Thanks!
 
Andy.

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. Please note that if you use features which are only present in the Beta version then save your document, it will no longer open in the Mac App Store version.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Pixel selections now honour the current artboard when selecting all / inverting the selection - Deleting the last artboard will not cause you to have a document of zero dimensions - Fix for marching ants disappearing when the canvas is rotated - Fix for text blurring on some buttons in the UI for retina screens - Export persona’s Slice panel now sets the exportable state for all items in the selection, not just the current item - Fix for objects placed on the spread in an artboard document disappearing when moved again - Move Tool’s marquee drag is no longer hidden when the ‘Hide selection while dragging’ option is set - Fix for marquee selection within artboards not working - Artboard documents without transparency should draw empty artboards with an opaque background - Canvas rotation now makes the grid rotate properly - Many PDF export and import improvements - Fix for many crashes seen after loading documents with saved history where an artboard has been used - Fix for document view having visible borders at different zoom levels and pan locations - Fix snapping marker rendering in the Node Tool - The performance cat has lost his ‘Miaow’ in the Preferences dialog (and Matt mourns its loss) - Artboard labels can now be clicked to select the artboard easily. We’ll make this draggable for next time so you can drag the artboard from here too.

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Panorama UI improvements (including crop tool).
- Fix for document view having visible borders at different zoom levels and pan locations
- Fix for marching ants disappearing when the canvas is rotated
- Fix for text blurring on some buttons in the UI for retina screens - Export persona’s Slice panel now sets the exportable state for all items in the selection, not just the current item - Move Tool’s marquee drag is no longer hidden when the ‘Hide selection while dragging’ option is set - Canvas rotation now makes the grid rotate properly - Many PDF export and import improvements - Fix snapping marker rendering in the Node Tool - The performance cat has lost his ‘Miaow’ in the Preferences dialog (and we all mourn its loss)

Hello!
 
We've got a new app coming out - for the latest generation Apple TV (Late 2015)!
 
It's a learning / teaching tool for users of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer.
 
For now, it simply contains all our video tutorial content from the website / Vimeo. We'll of course be adding more focussed, appropriate content over time. We'll also be doing a better job of categorising the content and grouping it together.
 
If you have an Apple TV (Late 2015) and would like to beta test this new tool - please email tv@seriflabs.com and tell us your email address (the email must be associated with an active Apple ID) - we'll then add you to the TestFlight beta program and you should receive further installation instructions.
 
Thanks!
 
Andy.

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. Please note that if you use features which are only present in the Beta version then save your document, it will no longer open in the Mac App Store version.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Pixel selections now honour the current artboard when selecting all / inverting the selection - Deleting the last artboard will not cause you to have a document of zero dimensions - Fix for marching ants disappearing when the canvas is rotated - Fix for text blurring on some buttons in the UI for retina screens - Export persona’s Slice panel now sets the exportable state for all items in the selection, not just the current item - Fix for objects placed on the spread in an artboard document disappearing when moved again - Move Tool’s marquee drag is no longer hidden when the ‘Hide selection while dragging’ option is set - Fix for marquee selection within artboards not working - Artboard documents without transparency should draw empty artboards with an opaque background - Canvas rotation now makes the grid rotate properly - Many PDF export and import improvements - Fix for many crashes seen after loading documents with saved history where an artboard has been used - Fix for document view having visible borders at different zoom levels and pan locations - Fix snapping marker rendering in the Node Tool - The performance cat has lost his ‘Miaow’ in the Preferences dialog (and Matt mourns its loss) - Artboard labels can now be clicked to select the artboard easily. We’ll make this draggable for next time so you can drag the artboard from here too.

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Panorama UI improvements (including crop tool).
- Fix for document view having visible borders at different zoom levels and pan locations
- Fix for marching ants disappearing when the canvas is rotated
- Fix for text blurring on some buttons in the UI for retina screens - Export persona’s Slice panel now sets the exportable state for all items in the selection, not just the current item - Move Tool’s marquee drag is no longer hidden when the ‘Hide selection while dragging’ option is set - Canvas rotation now makes the grid rotate properly - Many PDF export and import improvements - Fix snapping marker rendering in the Node Tool - The performance cat has lost his ‘Miaow’ in the Preferences dialog (and we all mourn its loss)

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. Please note that if you use features which are only present in the Beta version then save your document, it will no longer open in the Mac App Store version.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Pixel selections now honour the current artboard when selecting all / inverting the selection - Deleting the last artboard will not cause you to have a document of zero dimensions - Fix for marching ants disappearing when the canvas is rotated - Fix for text blurring on some buttons in the UI for retina screens - Export persona’s Slice panel now sets the exportable state for all items in the selection, not just the current item - Fix for objects placed on the spread in an artboard document disappearing when moved again - Move Tool’s marquee drag is no longer hidden when the ‘Hide selection while dragging’ option is set - Fix for marquee selection within artboards not working - Artboard documents without transparency should draw empty artboards with an opaque background - Canvas rotation now makes the grid rotate properly - Many PDF export and import improvements - Fix for many crashes seen after loading documents with saved history where an artboard has been used - Fix for document view having visible borders at different zoom levels and pan locations - Fix snapping marker rendering in the Node Tool - The performance cat has lost his ‘Miaow’ in the Preferences dialog (and Matt mourns its loss) - Artboard labels can now be clicked to select the artboard easily. We’ll make this draggable for next time so you can drag the artboard from here too.

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes 
Status: Beta
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Here
 
To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. Please note that if you use features which are only present in the Beta version then save your document, it will no longer open in the Mac App Store version.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Pixel selections now honour the current artboard when selecting all / inverting the selection - Deleting the last artboard will not cause you to have a document of zero dimensions - Fix for marching ants disappearing when the canvas is rotated - Fix for text blurring on some buttons in the UI for retina screens - Export persona’s Slice panel now sets the exportable state for all items in the selection, not just the current item - Fix for objects placed on the spread in an artboard document disappearing when moved again - Move Tool’s marquee drag is no longer hidden when the ‘Hide selection while dragging’ option is set - Fix for marquee selection within artboards not working - Artboard documents without transparency should draw empty artboards with an opaque background - Canvas rotation now makes the grid rotate properly - Many PDF export and import improvements - Fix for many crashes seen after loading documents with saved history where an artboard has been used - Fix for document view having visible borders at different zoom levels and pan locations - Fix snapping marker rendering in the Node Tool - The performance cat has lost his ‘Miaow’ in the Preferences dialog (and Matt mourns its loss) - Artboard labels can now be clicked to select the artboard easily. We’ll make this draggable for next time so you can drag the artboard from here too.

Hi,
 
Affinity is about, amongst other things, the "experience" of designing things.. 60fps, fluid navigation and editing of documents is at the heart of what we do.
 
WINE is a wonderful project, but I don't think it would work for Affinity - performance is close to native, but support for things like our use of OpenGL / input interaction would take some work. It also assumes a Windows build to map onto WINE libs - which we don't have. You have more chance of convincing us to make a native Linux version than a WINE one..
 
I won't rule out making a Linux version of Affinity, but I need someone to show me a combination of distro, desktop topology and deployment (paid) platform where we would recoup our development costs. If someone can show me that, I'll be willing to talk some more about it all..
 
Hope this helps,
 
AndyS

Hi,
 
Affinity is about, amongst other things, the "experience" of designing things.. 60fps, fluid navigation and editing of documents is at the heart of what we do.
 
WINE is a wonderful project, but I don't think it would work for Affinity - performance is close to native, but support for things like our use of OpenGL / input interaction would take some work. It also assumes a Windows build to map onto WINE libs - which we don't have. You have more chance of convincing us to make a native Linux version than a WINE one..
 
I won't rule out making a Linux version of Affinity, but I need someone to show me a combination of distro, desktop topology and deployment (paid) platform where we would recoup our development costs. If someone can show me that, I'll be willing to talk some more about it all..
 
Hope this helps,
 
AndyS

Nothing will change with the tutorials - they will still go to our website, and Vimeo :)
 
Thanks,
 
Andy.

fixed :-)