SilvaDSGN

This is happening on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit with Affinity Designer 1.7.2.471.
I have this one file that crashes Affinity Designer when switched to the Export Persona. I can manually export each Artboard fine in the Draw Persona.
It gets more complicated, though. I have this file link-embedded in several other files (Problem file > other files). Those other files can be switched to the Export Persona fine, but clicking on the Slices pane causes a crash. Exporting from the Draw Persona still works in those files.
But it gets weirder. I have one file in which I have link-embedded one of those other files with the problem file link-embedded (Problem file > other file > this one file). It does not cause crashes when switching to the Export Persona or using the Slices pane, and can successfully export all Slices as expected.
I have attached the problem file.
P.S. I know it isn't supposed to be possible to link embed files in Designer 1.7.2, but I needed it because I keep editing these files and link-embedding made replacing old versions much easier. When I needed to reload the link-embedded files, I would just open the file in Publisher and update it there.
Emblem.afdesign

(Originally sent as an email on 26th Dec 2018)
Hi, 
It’s been another knockout year for us in 2018 and we thank you for helping to make that happen.
As the year draws to a close we wanted to give you a little round up of where we are now, and what you can look forward to in the coming months.


 
It’s been a busy year 
Twelve months ago, we thought we’d be hard-pressed to have another year so packed full of activity and growth. But 2018 has been just as exciting, including
•    Rolling out multiple updates to Affinity Photo and Designer, including the first glimpses of what version 1.7 will bring to the desktop apps. The betas are available for download now if you want to give them a try – read more below…
•    The launch of Affinity Designer for iPad was the highlight of our very first Affinity Live! event in July (especially after England got knocked out of the football World Cup on the night). The response to our second iPad app has proved beyond any doubt that there is a substantial, and growing, demand for fully-loaded professional creative apps on iPad right now.
•    It’s always nice to be recognised for what we do, and after starting 2018 with Affinity Photo reigning supreme as iPad App of the Year, the year has brought us the App Creator of the Year award, at Microsoft Build, and a trophy for Best Software from PC Pro magazine.
 
But our main focus this year has been investing development into the core architecture of our apps. This has mostly been to support the upcoming Affinity Publisher launch (more on that later), but also research into technologies such as GPU compute acceleration.
While much of this work is behind the scenes, it’s crucial for us to continue developing new technologies and you’ll hopefully start to see some of the benefits of this work over the next 12 months.

Growth in Affinity continues
It still feels incredible to us the way that Affinity apps are being adopted around the world. We announced in July that we had reached 1 million users, and as we write this, we have just passed 1.4 million worldwide. It’s pretty remarkable growth and we feel very humbled and thankful to be in this position.
We know this has only been possible because of the support given to us by customers like yourself, not just from simply buying our apps, but from giving us great reviews, spreading the word on social media and giving us fantastic feedback about how to make our apps better. Please accept our gratitude and thanks.
 

 
Affinity Publisher update 
The beta of Affinity Publisher is coming on very nicely, with over 150,000 designers now taking part. We’re listening to all the feedback we are getting with thousands of fixes and improvements already made.
We were originally planning to launch Publisher before the end of this year (2018), but we have decided to take a little more time over it with the hope we can get a few more of the features you are asking for in for our initial launch.
If you’ve not yet signed up for the beta and want to try it out you can sign up here; https://affin.co./publisherbeta 
 

 
1.7 versions are coming
The 1.7 versions of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer are on their way. We’re packing in many new features and improvements into these updates so there’s lots to look forward to. We will be launching the desktop versions early next year with iPad versions coming shortly after. Naturally these will be free updates to anyone who already owns the 1.6 versions.
For more info on what’s coming, along with details if you want to take part in the beta, check out these articles:
Affinity Photo 1.7 beta; https://affin.co/photo17beta 
Affinity Designer 1.7 beta; https://affin.co/des17beta
 

Get 20% off everything in the store 
To celebrate another great year, we’re offering 20% discount on everything in the Affinity Store over the Christmas period (Ends 6th Jan). That includes apps, the official Workbooks, Affinity brush packs offered in conjunction with leading designers, and our brand-new ‘Team Affinity’ T-shirts.
Visit the Store
We wish you a happy and peaceful holiday season and look forward to exciting times ahead.
The Affinity Team
 

Hey guys......so I was working on my new course...and got the the lesson on making brushes.....sooooo I had to amek some brushes. 
 
I made a set of fog/ smoke brushes in raster and a set of silky smooth stroke brushes for your vector applications. 
 
I have learned so much from the people on the site....I wanted to give back, so here ya go . I am working on new blog post and some new art using them....so I will keep you in the loop 
 
Feedback on them is always appreciated, I love making these sorts of tools 
 
Jeremy , www.7thseasonstudios.com
Stroke brushes -7th season studios .afbrushes
Smoke and fog brushes -7th season studios.afbrushes

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Customer Beta
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 you 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 here 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.
 
Tools
We've overhauled most of the core tools, adding subtle new features to make you more productive:
Node tool has a new 'Transform Mode' which provides a containing box for the selected nodes and allows for more freeform editing of the nodes. Node and Pen tools have an utterly amazing Construction mode which gives easy access to common construction features to help you build complicated shapes or intersections accurately and easily, giving you simple access to parallels, right angles, reflected and mirrored angles, in addition to circular construction snaps and all construction intersections. This really needs a video to show how to use it - but it's awesome. Pen tool now has a 'rubber band' mode and also a mode to allow future curves to be added to the current object's curves (for example, the character 'a' is constructed of two curves in a single 'curve object' and this mode makes that construction simpler). Node tool can now auto-snap nodes if you drag a node from one curve over the top of a node from another (selected) curve and pause, it will offer to snap to the same geometry as the node you're hovering over (i.e.  modify the on and off-curve nodes to match). This is really useful for trying to reconstruct areas of one curve from another curve. Node tool now allows for lasso selection of nodes by holding the Alt/Ctrl key and dragging a selection lasso. Pencil tool now offers a 'sculpt' mode that allows for extending or manipulating curves in a more natural way. More to come in this area soon. Many tools now allow for 'Alignment widgets' which you can toggle the visibility of in the context toolbar. When enabled you can visually adjust the alignment or even, for example, 'align to centre, snapped to the left edge of this object' by simply click/dragging. Fill tool correctly allows editing of skewed fill handles and newly-created skewed fills draw much nicer now. Ruler origin can be edited by simply dragging the area where the rulers intersect each other - it can even be snapped onto objects in the document. Guides can be edited in most tools by simply dragging a guide in the ruler area. Grid setup is now more interactive: origin can be dragged, axis scale adjusted and angle adjusted on-document, complete with snapping to objects and angles in the document to help you reconstruct useful grids from finished artworks or sketches. By enabling 'Edit in Plane' on the new Isometric Studio, tools can edit objects and appear to make those edits along the currently active plane - extremely useful for artists who enjoy working with any axonometric projections. You can now drag the rotation centre point (when enabled on the context toolbar) while holding Ctrl and it will translate the object - this is actually very useful for positioning and snapping objects relative to others. Shapes tools now have presets so you can create your own favourite shape setups and more easily use them again. There are just far too many subtle tool changes to mention here, but hopefully you'll find the tools much improved
 
General
New brushes, styles and assets are now shipped with the product. Visible bleed (accessed from the View menu) so you can more easily design into the bleed area - a common feature request. “Alternate futures” for document history have been added. Traditionally, if you roll back the undo history then do something else all your changes after that point are lost. Designer will now display a small branch icon in the history tab when you do this. Pressing that button will cycle between all the different “futures” after that history entry - meaning you will never lose work you have done. New 'Isometric' Studio makes it easy to setup and work with various axonometric projections within the application. HEIF images can now be loaded directly into Designer. If they contain a depth map, this will also be loaded as a second layer. Because depth maps are typically lower resolution than the main image, optional “smart” upsampling will be performed. Designer now supports custom document presets - a popular feature request. A new blend mode - Linear Burn - has been added. New “Move inside / outside” commands have been added - useful for quickly clipping/unclipping. New "Merge curves/Separate curves" commands. Grids now have an editable number of angle subdivisions. The Hard Mix blend mode has been improved. Numerous text improvements have been made - including new features such as bullets and numbering. Significant PDF import / export improvements and fixes. Added support for per-monitor ICC profiles (previously we only used the primary monitor's ICC profile) in the document view (controls still use the primary monitor's ICC profile, which will hopefully be fixed in the future).  
Brushes
Designer 1.7 introduces a new “sub-brush” mechanism, developed in conjunction with Paolo Limoncelli (DAUB® Brushes). This exciting feature allows any brush to have a list of other brushes attached which will draw at the same time. Each sub-brush has a fully separate and customisable set of dynamics. You can control when the sub-brushes are drawn and how they blend with the main brush. Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported - including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring. Wet edges and accumulation are now available on colour brushes and brushes with HSL variance. Brushes with multiple nozzle textures have always chosen the nozzle at random. In 1.7, the nozzle choice has a dynamic controller and ramp for greater control. All pixel brush tools now support left and right arrow keys for rotation - a common feature request.
Adjustments
The HSL adjustment layer has been rewritten. It now supports custom hue ranges, a new algorithm, new UI and picker controls. The Levels adjustment layer now supports output levels - a common feature request. The White Balance adjustment layer has been rewritten. The Selective Colour adjustment layer has been rewritten. PSD import / export of adjustments has been improved. The Vibrance adjustment layer has been rewritten. The Recolour adjustment layer has gained a lightness slider.  
Fixes
Numerous other bug fixes - too many to list!

I'm not understanding what you are doing. I never needed to use the shape builder tool in Ai, so am unfamiliar w. how it works. 
However, the built in parametric shapes in AD are resized and positioned by their bounding box. They don't really have a fixed geometry till converted to curves w. nodes at specific places relative to the center of rotation. The snapping options won't work very well based on the bounding boxes.
Where are you adding extra nodes? And why do you need to cut the rest of the nodes? Forgive me if I'm seeming dense, but I can't infer what you are trying to do. 
Can you post an image of something that is misaligned, or a file?
 

Got an example of what you are aiming for?
You can use the transform panel to accurately move objects, just make sure move by whole pixels is turned off in snapping and make sure the numbers in the transform panel are integer numbers (Whole numbers) not fractional.
Create a Circle 100px and place it at X:0 Y:0 Using Power Duplicate (⌘ + J) or (Alt + Drag)  duplicate object, then edit the location of the duplicated object in the transform panel to X:100 Y:0
This moves the duplicated circle to the right 100px Use (⌘ + J) again repeatedly to create multiple duplicate objects all moved 100px to the right of the last one. Once you have enough to can select them all, (⌘ + J) and move them down by setting the transform panel X:0 Y:100 Use (⌘ + J) again repeatedly to create multiple duplicate lines of the selected objects all moved down 100px You can do similar things by rotating around a central circle. using the rotation centre of the first object and duplicating it.
There is a cool Open Source app called NodeBox that can generate patterns, it can export to vector formats like SVG. If you want to knock out cool patterns or even animation NodeBox is a good tool to have in your design tool kit.

There is no Tangent snapping per se but I wonder if this would work for you

Psuedo Tanget Snapping.mp4  

Hi,
 
We are pleased to announce the Windows release of Affinity Designer , version 1.6.5
FIXLIST
The changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.6.5 over the last ADe  patch 1.6.4 are as follows:
- Fixed Document Setup dialog failing to show correct Height and Width values when switching between portrait modes
- Fixed incorrect colour from CMYK waterfall model
- Improve Microsoft Dial support
- Improve PDF import 
- Fixed resized floating panel not sticking when swapping to a different panel 
- Fixed crash when dragging artboards
- Fixed floating window panels to remember their width as well as height
- Fixed Colour Picker shortcut not working with Surface Pen 
- Improved performance of shutdown 
- Fixed Leading Override (Character panel) and Paragraph Leading (Paragraph panel) key modifier inconsistencies
- Fixed empty gap at the bottom of the font size dropdown 
- Fixed crash when we can't identify any font families in a font 
- Fixed Pen point being placed when panning with spacebar 
- Added missing "Scrubby Zoom”
- Fixed Space bar panning with the paintbrush tool placing nozzlesFixed tool handle selection with touch input 
- Fixed SVG export to avoid exporting spurious groups
- Fixed pressing escape key on font size context toolbar editor not returning focus
- Added option to prefer metafile over raster with per-application default (default to on)
- Fixed main window closing on second monitor not appearing at next start
- Fixed Adjustments panel starting below the visible window 
- Fixed Print dialog not defaulting to current selected artboard
- Fixed Transform panel fields losing focus when using arrow and shift+arrow keys to increment/decrement values
- Fixed intermittent crash when using the Pen Tool 
- Fixed drag dropping a PNG file into the document locks the file
- Fixed rendering issues with custom display scales between 125% and 150%
- Fixed crash pasting into Microsoft Paint
- Fixed dialogs not appearing on second monitor 
- Fixed margins not being set for new artboard documents 
- Fixed keyboard shortcuts becoming disabled after pressing Escape in the Pressure dialog 
- Fixed move up/down in the Assets Panel not correctly enabling after moving a category that is first or last 
- Fixed Embed Assets in Current Document selection state being reversed 
- Fixed colour conversion of bitmaps during vector export
- Fixed adjusting line pressure being laggy 
- Fixed deleting a node on the stroke pressure editor not updating the document
- Fixed New Document dialog not being aligned nicely
- Fixed rotating nodes not being remembered
- Fixed editing a Curves Adjustment preventing you from using Keyboard Shortcuts to add additional 
- Fixed unable to type after tabbing when editing a swatch value
- Fixed RGB slider field getting a dotted outline when tabbing into it 
- Fixed pressing delete with a stop selected on the Gradient Flyout deletes the object, not the stop
- Fixed sporadic crash when sizing text frames to fit
- Fixed editing a guide in Guides Manager not correctly changing selection 
- Fixed adding colour to swatch causes crash 
- Fixed shaking a floating panel minimizes other panels
- Fixed fill layers built-in masks are broken 
- Fixed export area dropdown not working like the macOS version 
- Fixed Pen tool to add snapping while restart dragging under Pen mode
- Numerous other fixes and stability improvements.
REGRESSIONS
There is one known regression in this build over the previous release 1.6.4 (available here), sorry for this inconvenience
 - Artboards in embedded .afdesign file do not export to PDF
Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Bugs on Windows section
For purchases from the Affinity Store the software, each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer any available update, or it can be downloaded from here
For purchases from the Microsoft Store are done automatically (next time you run after it is available in the store)
 

Thanks, i been looking for this for a long time.

Try here: https://affinity.store/checkout/?code=xmas-ios-11-ui-kit