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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. 

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
Fixed Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales Fixed EMFs not rendering on non-RGBA documents Fixed performance of Posterise when hardware acceleration is enabled Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file (introduced in 944 beta) Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes) Fixed being unable to create custom export presets for PDF export Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped  Fixed Copy As SVG preventing Affinity data being added to the clipboard  Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible  Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents Fixed Panorama Erase from Source Mask tool artifacts Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files Fixed crash when loading specific CR3 file 1.9.1.944 release notes

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 1.9.1.952 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 from the 1.9.0 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
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Fixes

General
Fixed Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales
Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file
Fixed crash on open for a number of reported 1.8 / beta documents
Fixed intermittent crash on applying Master Page
Import / Export / Resources
Fixed blocking that could occur when placing especially large raster heavy PDF files
Updating a PDF via Resource Manager resets Interpret / Passthrough state
IDML Import - Fixed unlocking of layers coming from IDML Import
IDML Import - Fix for Text Styles not applied correctly with specific file
IDML Import - Fix for rotated items in Picture Frames
IDML Import - For for failure to import some text items in Table cells
IDML Import - Fix for crash on import of specific file(s)
PDF Import - Improvements to how PDF Import handles text lists. Ambiguity between Roman numeral "c" and Latin letter "c" is handled better.
PDF Import - Fix for clipping paths being incorrectly identified as redundant and discarded in some circumstances
EPS Import - Fixed failure to detect colour space when the EPS only had shades
Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files
Placed landscape afpub files could be treated as portrait under certain circumstances
Fixed EMFs not rendering on non-RGBA documents
Copy As SVG prevents Affinity data being added to the clipboard
Fixed Resource Manager selection issues
Resource Manager Replace button enabled state was mismanaged under certain circumstances
Tools and Rendering
Transform Objects Separately was ignored for some operations
Align buttons were modifying master page content when used in "Edit Detached" mode
Fix for parts of some master page objects / paragraph decorations not showing in bleed on regular pages
Recent colours are now updated when changing a Table cell Fill or Stroke
Text
Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible
Paragraph > Justification > Minimum, Desired and Maximum word spacing controls inoperative
Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped
Added Glyph Picker for Initial Words characters
Interactive > Go To Hyperlink can crash if no target
Fix for wrap settings on pinned objects not always updating correctly
Fixed scaling instability with inline text objects under certain circumstances
Objects inserted into Master Page text were not updating correctly on regular pages
Truncate long Find and Replace MRU menu entries to prevent UI overflow
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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.
Changes
Fixed Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales Fixed EMFs not rendering on non-RGBA documents Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file (introduced in 944 beta) Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes) Fixed being unable to create custom export presets for PDF export Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped  Fixed Copy As SVG preventing Affinity data being added to the clipboard  Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible  Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files 1.9.1.944 release notes

Hi haakoo and OctaTracker,

We've identified what is causing the crash on run up. Please see Mark's comment here for how to work around the crash. Note you will need to change the folder from 'Photo' to 'Designer' in the AppData path. If you don't have the XML file listed you should be able to copy it from same location as the non Beta AppData folder.

Note if you do a Ctrl-run up it will clear this setting again and cause this crash to re-appear.

Where the release build 1.9.0 works for you? Have you tried a second run of the beta?

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
Fixed Studio Preset shortcuts not being restored after a subsequent launch Fixed slow Channel Mixer adjustment when using hardware acceleration Fixed potential crash on the pattern layer context toolbar sampler control Fixed potential crash when a updating the layer editability Fixed potential crash showing Product Key dialog Fixed New from Clipboard of raster data from external applications, as it was always prefering EMF/WPF over raster data (ignoring the 'Prefer metafile over raster ...' general setting Prevent multiple crashes at startup due to what I assume is a bad OpenCL driver. Previous startup crashes are detected, and hardware acceleration is prevented. Fixed crashes when attempting to register the product Fixed slow Patch Tool and Healing Brush when using hardware acceleration 1.9.1.943 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
Fixed Studio Preset shortcuts not being restored after a subsequent launch Fixed potential crash when a updating the layer editability Fixed potential crash showing Product Key dialog Fixed New from Clipboard of raster data from external applications, as it was always prefering EMF/WPF over raster data (ignoring the 'Prefer metafile over raster ...' general setting Prevent multiple crashes at startup due to what I assume is a bad OpenCL driver. Previous startup crashes are detected, and hardware acceleration is prevented. Fixed crashes when attempting to register the product 1.9.1.943 release notes

Hi Haakoo,

If you do a ctrl run up, it will remove the value and cause the crash you're seeing again. Just copy the PerformancePreferences.xml from the non-beta folder, modify the line Mark mentions and DO NOT ctrl run up. You should find it should then run up.

That was for the crash at startup @AlainP. It won't affect the problem of being unable to disable hardware acceleration.

This same problem also causes the crash on startup. To work around it, open the following file:
%APPDATA%\Affinity\Photo\1.0 (Beta)\Settings\PerformancePreferences.xml
And make sure it has the following entry (inside the <Settings> tags):
<UseHardwareAcceleration>True</UseHardwareAcceleration>
Apologies for the inconvenience.

Hey Johann Dietz,
Try right-clicking the download link and open in a new tab. I had to do that this morning. Or copy the link address and paste into a new tab.

I've discovered the cause of the inability to disable OpenCL in the beta. That'll be fixed in the next build. 

Credit where credit is due: Thanks @Chris J! Display scaling is good and necessary stuff for aging eyes - so Affinity fully supporting it is wonderful! 🙂 

Yeah! Verified with 110% scaling. Thanks, Mark!

Thanks @Jowday. Shout out to @Chris J who worked on the fix!

Yeah it's a CloudFront URL. Which means the file is pushed around the world to multiple data centres so that the downloads are faster if you're further from the original server.
We do the same for our retail builds on the Affinity Store.

Click here to download the latest beta - This is now distributed via CDN, so downloads should be quick for everyone... hopefully!
(note: on chrome browser you will need to use right click and use "open link in new tab", as this is an http link)
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
Fixed crash attempting to print a single artboard, that isn't the first artboard in the document Fixed JPEG and TIFF filter descriptions (was "Affinity Files") Fixed being unable to apply styles with a single click in list mode Fixed crash on shutdown while content is still downloading Improved PDF Import of text lists and numbers lists Fixed PDF Import incorrectly identifying clips as redundant and removing them Fixed copying of objects not copying their tag colour Fixed Export Preview scaling issues 1.9.0.932 release notes

Thanks, Mark.
It's not mentioned in your notes, but this beta also seems to give us default keyboard shortcuts for View > Studio Presets > ...
(But only in Photo, not Designer.)
Edit: No, now they're gone, after some playing around.

Click here to download the latest beta - This is now distributed via CDN, so downloads should be quick for everyone... hopefully!
(note: on chrome browser you will need to use right click and use "open link in new tab", as this is an http link)
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
Fixed hardware accelerated Focus Merge  Fixed artefacts when rotating live filters as children of pixel layers Fixed Astrophotography results file labels being white in light UI mode Fixed cancelling Astrophotography Stacking to ask for confirmation before closing the document Renamed Linked Layers "Filter effect parameters" to "Layer effect parameters" Fixed JPEG and TIFF filter descriptions (was "Affinity Files") Fixed being unable to apply styles with a single click in list mode Fixed crash on shutdown while content is still downloading Improved PDF Import of text lists and numbers lists Fixed PDF Import incorrectly identifying clips as redundant and removing them Fixed copying of objects not copying their tag colour Fixed Export Preview scaling issues 1.9.0.932 release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta - Release Candidate
Purpose: New features, performance, 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
Fixed crash undoing Flatten Layers 1.9.0.927 (RC5) release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta - Release Candidate
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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
Fixed crash undoing Flatten Layers 1.9.0.927 (RC5) release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta - Release Candidate
Purpose: New features, performance, 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
Fixed crash loading LABA16 TIFF Temporarily removed Export Timelapse feature (will be back in a future version) 1.9.0.923 (RC4) release notes

Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta - Release Candidate
Purpose: Features, Improvements, 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
Fixed crash loading LABA16 TIFF Temporarily removed Export Timelapse feature (will be back in a future version) 1.9.0.923 (RC4) release notes

Thanks to @Sean P @Chris B and @Mark Ingram for their strong support.
Without you shipping builds that works, this would not be possible, entirely made with the recent .900 RC release of AfPhoto and AfDesigner.
it works !
 
 

Hi TOB,

This is a known issue that is already with development.