Uncle Mez

Is there any word on the next Beta release.  It's been months and I haven't seen any progress toward elimination of current bugs or stability.  The application still randomly crashes on me after 45 min to 2 hours.  This happens on multiple systems, Intel, AMD, etc.  Doesn't matter what I run it on.  Then there are the little things like missing fonts and the program will not snap to the instances where they occur.  The program will crash on creation of a Table of Contents or even while updating it.  SO, hope they are still working on stability.  I am periodically looking back here for updates, but nothing seems to be happening.

PiXimperfect (very popular photoshop channel) posted a video covering features that are missing from Photoshop.  The video hits points that would make strong promotional points for Affinity.  Some interesting feedback in the comments as well.    

Hello Peoples !
Just want to know if it is possible to do a content aware crop or/and content aware fill with Affinity.
if No ! did someone achieve something similar using one of the available tools ?
Please share if you succeeded with this so can learn and apply.
in case of 100% then it would be a great functionality to add.
Blessings !

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Status: Customer Beta (Release Candidate)
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

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Fixed registration failure (will now use the browser to complete registration, rather than attempt it in-app) Fixed corrupt images when entering Photoshop plugins, with hardware acceleration enabled Updated help Previous release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

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Changes
Fixed registration failure (will now use the browser to complete registration, rather than attempt it in-app) Updated help Previous release notes
 

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

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Fixed background layer being blurred when re-opening an afphoto file Fixed artefacts on export of documents with a Live Radial Blur Fixed Overlay Paint and Erase Tools in Develop Persona not painting correctly at small brush sizes Fixed Overlay Paint Brush starting at the edge of canvas Updated SerifLabs RAW (updated libraw to 202110) Previous release notes

Additional Cameras supported by SerifLabs RAW engine in all Affinity Photo Desktop 1.10.5 builds (going forward)
DJI Mavic Air 2S Fujifilm GFX 50S II GFX 100S X-E4 GoPro HERO9 HERO10 Nikon Z fc Olympus E-P7 Panasonic DC-GH5 Mark II Pentax K3 Mark III Ricoh GR IIIx Sony A1 (ILCE-1) A7R-IIIA (ILCE-7RM3A) A7R-IVA (ILCE-7RM4A) ZV-E10 Multiple Camera Phones added Canon EOS M50 Mark II (was supported but not listed in camera list)

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.2.1187 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.10.1 version recently released to all customers. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the release version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer. Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply. Vector import (SVG, IDML etc) can be created at incorrect size. Space incorrectly gets added to text on clipboard if you double click a word to highlight. Fixed bug when deleting multiple pinned objects at the same time. Other assorted small fixes. Previous Beta Release Notes
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Hello Everyone,
Well i know this have been asked for long time by many but also wanted to add my request into the long long list
How come Affinity Designer can't do this kind of simple stuff Inkscape can do using it's interpolate extension and Ai can do with it's tool ?
i mean, i'm not asking affinity to be like Ai nor Inkscape but the mesh you will see attached here was created in less than 30sec on a very old laptop running Linux Fedora 29 beta with inkscape installed.
Please guys not only this tool but make it happen with more tools straight from your Knight Bag, make me smile like you did with the new thing you have added to the pen tool of APublisher thus making it 10 times better than the Pen tool implemented into ADesigner ... Well this one still need to grow to where APub stand  but ... get it done guys and ... make me smile.
BTW it's free to use for anyone who feel it may be of interest both Personal & commercial, the SVG you can use to recolor with ADesigner or APhoto. Enjoy !
drawing.svg

Hello @edferg
Was just looking on how to Bump map with affinity photo and your content helped me to find it.
Well there are many methods but that one is okay and i like it thanks !
I think it should be brought to front instead of being burried within another filter, a dedicated bump map filter with necessary settings would be help full.
So if we want to add live light then we only add live light but we can just chose to make bump map itself without the need of passing through or by the live light filter.
i invite @Andy Somerfield and @MattP to have a look here and tell us what they think.
Well i use Mac but the settings are the same on both plateforms/
Blessings !

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.2.1167 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.10.1 version recently released to all customers. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the release version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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Placed .afphoto documents can cause redraw issues PDF Passthrough could crash when rendering entire placed document Positioning pins should not find frames that are not editable Hyperlinks with 'MailTo' fail to export when containing a space Issues with borderless printing Miscellaneous stability updates arising from specific cases Previous Beta Release Notes
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Fetched and tested, no major problem found here.
well i don't use everything but i'm happy to see that pugin detection system is much better now, I can send work to apps Luminar do some tune up then get back to Aphoto for complementary stuffs then exports, Yet, it is still destructive but at least it works with less tricks and pain.
Zoom refresh is working much better than the latest 2 builds, i have a GPU that have not the acceleration but I feel at home.
So, Thanks Team.

Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1127 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer.
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Fixed crashes when pasting between documents with different colour formats Assorted minor fixes and improvements Localisation updates Help updates Previous Release Notes
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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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.
Fixed Adjustment enclosures which affect alpha (curves, levels) not working Fixed problem when pasting raster nodes from one document to another with a different format Fixed adjustment histograms Fixed crash when adding raster formats to Astrophotography Lights Previous release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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.
Changes
Added 'Select Parent', 'Select Top', and 'Select Bottom' to main menu Changed behaviour of Select All when Edit All Layers is disabled - if you’re inside a group, it will now Select All within the group Fixed PDF passthrough getting rasterised if vector cropped  Previous release notes

Status: Release Candidate
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1115 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer.
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Prevented unnecessary duplication of placed documents on IDML import Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents failing to load (The maximum number of allowed open file handles was being exceeded leading to erroneous 'Future Version Error') Improved OpenAsset support Localisation updates Help updates Previous Release Notes
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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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.
Updated help and translations Improved performance of importing PDFs Improved OpenAsset support Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents, failing to load because we exceed the maximum number of open file handles (leading to Future Version Error) Fixed copying clipboard data as PDF forcing a conversion to RGBA8 Fixed Convert to Curves on text giving unwanted transforms on child nodes Added a message box on Astro Stacking completion to say if any light frames could not be aligned  Fixed rare hang in Info page sampler when hardware acceleration is enabled Improved performance of LUTs when there are less target pixels than LUT entries Improved performance of rendering tiny clips Previous release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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.
Changes
Updated help and translations Improved performance of importing PDFs Improved OpenAsset support Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents, failing to load because we exceed the maximum number of open file handles (leading to Future Version Error) Fixed copying clipboard data as PDF forcing a conversion to RGBA8 Fixed Convert to Curves on text giving unwanted transforms on child nodes Improved performance of rendering tiny clips Previous release notes

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1109 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer.
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- Text wrap settings from existing document were not being honoured
- Inline pinned objects could appear in the wrong location
- Fixed Vertical Alignment issue for last cell in Table
- Formatting could revert when inserting text
- Convert to Curves for pinned objects could transform objects unnecessarily 
- Honour document colour format when providing clipboard PDF data to other applications
- Linked images in a packages were not always resolved correctly
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I know it's been reported before. But it's been there for years and still. Naming layers has a terrible annoying experience in AD.
One click, or whatever, it tends to select the whole previous name and 80% times or more this results in having to repeat the action twice to get the naming correct.
Thanks.
 
NAMING_LAYERS.mp4

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available
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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1103 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.
As such, we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer.
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Fixed crash composing text under certain circumstances
IDML Import - Fixed issue where text could disappear with certain files
PDF Import - Fixed crash for specific file where the importer was creating many nested empty layers unnecessarily
Vector Export - Simplify gradient fills that have been created with many stops that could crash when exporting
Vector Export - Fixed instance where clipped items were being rasterised unnecessarily
Fixed issue where 'Next Style' could fail to work when entering text
Fixed possible crash when auto-flowing text into master based text frames 
Character Panel - Kerning and Tracking scroll increments are inconsistent
Character Panel-  Baseline field up/down arrows function incorrectly using comma decimals.
Fixed issue where 'Limit zoom to 100%' could fail to apply
Fixed crashes with Japanese IME under certain circumstances
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I have recently shifted from Adobe to Affinity. Most of my work is related to Designer, I use Photo occasionally. I’m very satisfied with it overall. I can do pretty much everything on Affinity which I could do on Adobe. But I have noticed that there are some very basic tools which are missing in Affinity apps. Here, I’m making a list of those tools. My request to Affinity decision makers & developer team is that, please include these tools in Affinity 2.0 as designers are desperately waiting see these in Affinity (Most of them are just related to Designer but some are missing in Photo too):
 
Freeform Gradients Gradient Mesh Tool Vector/Pattern Fill Shape Builder Tool Live Tracing Perspective Distort/Free Transform RTL Languages Support Blend Shapes Inefficient Boolean Operations 3D Text Tool Simplify Curves Live Mesh Warp Filter

Hi Serif Software
I tried reaching out to a few of your team members but to no avail, so I thought I would post here instead.
I'm posting this as a member of the Ghent Workgroup, https://www.gwg.org/about-the-gwg/
As PDF creation is an important aspect of your product, we wondered if you like to explore joining our industry group along with your peers.
You are welcome to attend as an observer to see what and who we are. With the upcoming industry availability of PDF 2.0 and PDF/X-6 it might be useful for you?
Contact details are on the website.
The next meeting is in October and is being held in Ghent, Belgium. A lot of members will be attending remotely.
 

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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.
Allow simultaneous stacking of astro images for different filters  Fixed Info Panel not updating properly after opening images Improved Astrophotography to treat calibration masters from iTelescope the same as files from a camera (i.e. the bias is not already subtracted from the master dark) Improved Astrophotography to ignore damaged FITS files Improved Astrophotography for master calibration images created with Maxim DL by iTelescope Fixed Monochromatic Icons not affecting Adjustments Panel  Improved IME text editing Improved support for some lesser used Unicode characters Added Emoji support Fixed SVG export not exporting stretched text correctly when transforms are flattened Fixed SVG import to allow whitespace between "translate" and the following open bracket Fixed RTF export to close small caps correctly Fixed placing an embedded file incorrectly favouring the edited one in memory and not the source file used Previous release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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.
Changes
Improved linked documents to try to restore the correct artboard after a linked document has been modified Improved IME text editing Improved support for some lesser used Unicode characters Added Emoji support Fixed SVG export not exporting stretched text correctly when transforms are flattened Fixed SVG import to allow whitespace between "translate" and the following open bracket Fixed RTF export to close small caps correctly Fixed placing an embedded file incorrectly favouring the edited one in memory and not the source file used Previous release notes