Uncle Mez

Hello @MEB ... Oups !
Well, i'm not a technical designer but personally this helped me to do the parallel thing.
Sorry @Olivier Bujold though it would help you.
... in the same time i believe Serif Team is cooking something that will make it happen !
Let's wait, see and win !

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Changes
Improved hardware acceleration with live filters Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document Fixed Canon D90 + EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens not being identified  Added lens corrections & LensType mappings for Irix 11mm F4 and Irix 150mm F2.8 lenses  Added support for Adobe Lens Correction Profiles  Improved performance of Export and Merge Visible for documents with lots of live filters by working in larger tiles Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) Fixed some downloadable brushes being considered undeletable Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories to be alphabetically sorted Fixed line breaks not being copied to clipboard  Previous release notes

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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 crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) Fixed some downloadable brushes being considered undeletable Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories to be alphabetically sorted Fixed line breaks not being copied to clipboard  Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized artboards or groups Previous release notes

Hi Paul,

Thanks - I can reproduce that here - it looks like the Vector Brush is wanting a single colour rather than a gradient, so it keeps trying to select the white for some reason. If you select the Gradient Tool once you've drawn the object you should be able to apply the gradient without the flickering. I'll get it passed on over.

Thanks, it is not meant to be any announcement in 1.9.1.971 on auto-update, No more recent beta exists, sorry

Hello Everyone !
Talking about Fonts; it would be great and really helpful if Serif could add a functionality that allows us to Preview - Select and install font from Google Fonts website thus closing the gap.
I know that many here and over the web love it when things are managed from on place, also a Font pair capability would be welcome too !
Just these two can make the Affinity line go up to where others have never stepped before but also draw more Designer whom work is specialy font based like Chris Do etc...
Dev's and Managing team should think about this and take note of it.

@DenisD84, unfortunately AMD RX 5000 series and later cards aren't currently supported for hardware acceleration. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/133909-amd-radeon-rx-performance-problems/&do=findComment&comment=749064
 

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Changes
Fixed Develop Shadows and Highlights rendering slightly different to software (was causing sporadic artefacts on certain hardware) Fixed placed PDFs scaling incorrectly Previous release notes

Unfortunately I'm unable to reproduce this either - does this happen for some of the Assets in the iOS 12 category? Could you get a screen recording demonstrating the behaviour you're getting along with attaching the associated pack if it is a custom one?
 

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Changes
Fixed failure to Save As after opening a read only document Previous release notes

Thanks @Kshitij Sharma, I can't reproduce on my system here, so may be related to driver version, or the hardware.
I have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 with driver version 456.81.
You have an NVIDIA Quadro P1000 with driver version 452.57.
Could you try uninstalling your graphics drivers, and then downloading and installing the latest drivers from NVIDIA? For reference, the latest available drivers are 461.40 (https://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/driverResults.aspx/170163/en-uk). I'd be interested to know whether that fixes it for you.

Hey Chris,
It worked after I disable OpenCL.
I have HP Zbook G5 with following config:
i7-8750H
32GB RAM
Nvidia P1000 4GB Graphic Card.

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Fixed failure to Save As after opening a read only document Previous release notes

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
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Fixes

General
Fixes to mitigate issues with hardware acceleration on some systems
Document Loading
Fixed possible crash when opening files with iCloud based image resources
Fix for documents failing to load due to infinite loop with Constraints and certain document structures
Fixed potential hang while composing text in text frames with non-default Vertical Alignment
Import / Export / Resources
Fix for performance problems when placing an asset which contains images
PDF set for Passthrough crops incorrectly
PDF Export - Fixed crash exporting file with Bookmarks
Updating images via Resource Manager was resetting scale
Resource Manager now sorts by page number
Text
Spelling applied through Paragraph style only takes effect after re-applying the style
Pressing delete whilst unlinking frames causes a crash
Fixed possible crash when inserting a TOC
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I have the 5700 XT here, and it is taking 10X longer to initialise OpenCL kernels in comparison to equivalent hardware from NVIDIA. This is causing huge delays when opening files, moving sliders, etc. 
 
I have reported the issue to AMD, and I’m awaiting a response. This won’t be a permanent solution, but is intended to solve the huge amounts of reports that we have from Radeon RX owners. 

and 
Please be assured that release build 1.9.1 is not likely to be the last 1.9.x release. However our customers are absolutely desperate for some of the important fixes that it already contains. Most users do not know about the beta forums or beta builds and are struggling to use 1.9.0, so we absolutely must roll 1.9.1 out very soon without holding it up. We will check for major regressions over 1.9.0 but those would be the only reason I can suggest for not releasing 1.9.1 very soon

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Changes
Fixed crash at startup due to broken OpenCL drivers Disabled hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon RX 5000 series and later cards (awaiting response to bug filed with AMD) Fixed asset dragging performance for some assets Updated image metadata parsing Updated lens data Fixed hardware acceleration performance for Remove Lens Vignette (Develop Persona), Shear Filter, Liquify Turbulence Tool, Haze Removal Filter and Panorama Fixed some documents failing to load (hanging) Improved content syncing Added .fts extension support Improved Astrophotography to detect bad pixels before inspecting light frames  Improved Astrophotography to use the bad pixel map, if any, when loading images for alignment  Previous release notes

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Changes
Fixed crash at startup due to broken OpenCL drivers Disabled hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon RX 5000 series and later cards (awaiting response to bug filed with AMD) Fixed asset dragging performance for some assets Fixed some documents failing to load (hanging) Improved content syncing Previous release notes

I know this is an older post, but this feature is much needed in Affinity Photo.

I am proposing the feature to import 3D models (.fbx, .obj, etc) !
The inclusion of this feature has the following advantages:
1) Unrivalled spectacularity.
2) Dramatically lower RAM usage and produced file size.
3) Endless abilities for in-place model transformation.
IMHO a must-have for every serious DTP software from now on !

Thanks Bones,
Early days for sure - we will be looking to the beta user community to help us make sure we get this right, when we are in a position to release a build which supports it.
Andy.

Now, that: ....is interesting, to say the very least. It actually looks amazing - if you guys get that up to a Substance Painter level of quality, you will gain the support of, and an influx of, a great number of game artists. 

Hi again,
Further to the other things, we are looking to add more support for game art users - can't promise this for 1.9 but we are working on it..
 

 
(I have two documents open here - you can see the texture itself, the other document is the normal map - both are being edited and a realtime preview is being rendered on a .obj model in the new Model panel).
Thanks,
Andy.
 

Unfortunately from what I can tell looking at it's datasheet this card does not support DirectX Hardware Feature Level 12 and therefore cannot be used for OpenCL. If you go into DXDIAG you can see what feature levels are supported:

Dinosaur Pattern Styles 02
15 seamless dinosaur skin patterns

15 independent styles (set with maintain fill aspect ratio/wrap)
File size is Larger than usual! ....Exported the .png but a t higher res (400dpi)

Sample Sheet as below with .zip file for assets:

Dinosaur_02.zip