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great update, finally bigger documents work as they should:) Any idea when this version is comming out "offical"? More or less of course, is it going to be next month, or next quarter of the year?

hi guys, looks like Affinity has listened to all our prayers (or curses:P) Try the beta of 1.10 version, it works like the good old 1.6:) Can't wait to see the official release!

perhaps if we all together start posting here every week this thread would go bigger. And maybe somobeody from Serif would finally reply, or it would act as a big red alert for those, who consider going with Serif instead of Adobe. Because right now AD 1.9 is unusable for pro work.

Try calling them;D they will fix this (or not) in AD 3.0 which you will have to pay for;D Seriously, they should relase version 1.6.4 now as a HUGE performance update, there is nothing version 1.9 does better than the old one. In my opinion this is the trick to force all the pro users to buy their next product.

they really don't give a s*** about it... seriously, they support should start learning from Adobe, because they are far behind. I switched from macbook to iMac 2019 with 20bs of ram, 4gb graphic card, and guess what: it works as slow as on 2014 MBP... sorry, maybe sometimes it is 2sec faster (in 40s of opening time) To compare things: AD 1.6 works super fast even if I have 30 artboards loaded with photos. What is sad: they won't let you downgrade, even if you bought 1.6 in the past. Really, Serif - shame on you. You didn't even bother to check this issue. Congratulation of your customer service.

I have another example of glitchy performance of 1.8.3 I've created a two files, one in AD 1.8.3 and one in AD 1.6. I used the same images. Look how glitchy it is to move objects in AD 1.8.3 (not to mention this version with so many images in project crashes every 10 min...😞 )

Well 14 seconds with this file is pretty long don't you think? I have some files that opens above 1 minute, where AD 1.6 opens them in 10 seconds. And they are very glitchy when they finally opens. I'm on Macbook PRO, 15 inch, late 2014 model with IRIS PRO graphics and i7 2,2 ghz processor. AD 1.6 works smoothly with files like 3-4 GB while AD 1.8 is practically unusable with such big files...

Hi, this time I'm sorry for getting back here after so long time... Well, I tested it 100 times and every time the situation is exactly the same. It's not happening on one particular project, it happens with EVERY document created on Affinity 1.6 which I then try to edit and save in the AD 1.8 (the newest version as well). When I save the file (or use "save as" and create a new file) it makes a 900mb file a 61mb and links every image which was previously embeded... it works very bad. In case you would like to investigate it I paste here some file created in AD 1.6: https://we.tl/t-y5YDCTd2M9 I would appreciate some help with this.

best support ever, seriously, you should rethink your approach because what you do with this software is ridiculous...

anyone?....

Hi, I tried on BETA, but it is exactly the same behaviour. After saving file is reduced to 250 MB and completely unusable. What is going on with this software? Update after update is getting worse and worse:(

anybody? I don't believe only I have this issue....

Hi, I have a serious problems with the new Affinity 1.8 When I create a pretty big file in Affinity Designer 1.6 (bigger than 2gb) the AD 1.6 opens it in about 5 sec. When I open the same file in AD 1.8 it works the same, UNTIL I save changes. After that the file size is automatically reduced to 250 MB and works super slow. Reopening the file takes almost 2 minutes and it works way worse... looks like it is not embedding media, but linking instead. The same problem occurs when you create a brand new file in AD 1.8. When you create many artboards with many big images, the project starts to run super slow. AD 1.6 didn't have that problems at all. Looks like new Affinity has some serious performance or media placing issues... How can we force the Affinity Designer to always embed media instead of linking them? The same issue was present in AD 1.7, 1.8 didn't make anything better... Please take a look how the file behaves in AD 1.6: https://youtu.be/ds9Wjh4IHzU And how it works after saving the project in AD 1.8: https://youtu.be/F7KTDbsSf7c

thanks, I will give it a try

right now I've embedded everything manually in this file... I will upload a file when I spot this issue with another document. It's actually 3rd time I approach this problem with new AD 1.7 files. Are you guys going to release any update of this unfortunate 1.7 version?