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This is a bug. I have a similar workflow. With Designer I have several elements (drawings, illustrations) in different artboards. I place it in Publisher (that is set to PREFER LINKED), that way I can edit the .afdesign (that already has a fixed number of artboards, let's assume 15.). Everything works perfectly until at some point, when opening the publisher .afpub file, everything resets to Artboard1 (or any artboard positioned at the base of the .afdesign layer stack, regardless of the name). The .afpub and .afdesign are in the same folder. no cloud here It seems that the bug happens when I change something in the .afdesign (even though I'm not creating or deleting artboards). Just by changing the file, changing colors, drawing something different and saving. When opening the .afpub file at some point, everything resets to "Artboard1". A lot of work to set the correct artboards again.....😵‍💫 I can guarantee that it's a bug because I've used this workflow several times, at least with version 1.X and that never happened. Now this is the first time I work this way with version 2.x. Yes, unfortunately it is bugged 🐞 😔

So, these crashes have been happening in different (new and old) documents. The hardware acceleration is enabled. It just happens, a freeze, the software stops responding, I wait but it never responds. So when I click on the window the Windows warning pop-up (the software is not responding, it wants to wait.... bla bla bla) so I close and open it again. I can work on a document for 10min and a standard action like moving something or clicking on a layer causes it to freeze which results in a crash. Or I can work for 30min, 1h, 2h without problems, until suddenly it happens.... any action, anything at all can trigger it, even selecting an object may trigger the freeze. Sometimes I work from start to finish and nothing happens, it's completely random, but frequent. 2.0 Vanilla (unpatched) did not have this problem, I think it started from the first patch. I still have 1.0 installed, the freeze/crash does not happen there. My System I can't find the Designer 2 crash report location, the only one available here is 1.0. nor can I find information on the location of the 2.0 report

Great!! good to know 👏

Title BTW... The misalignment of the service logo and buttons with the panel is painful

So, this is an old problem, I've seen explanations full of words saying it's the operating system issue and bla bla bla. The problem is with the way they affinity softwares handle what is pasted from the clipboard. Attached is a video where I paint something on a layer in Krita and then paste the content of the layer in Inkscape, Clip Studio Paint, Rebelle 5 and finally in Designer 2.0 (Don't mind the video quality, I recorded it using ShareX and it was encoded to have a small file) image_transparency_past_clipboard_to_affinity.mp4 A screen of the result with Affinity software if you can't watch the video.

Thanks for the answer. Good to know that it's something that will be fixed (I hope soon) because I have to constantly pause updates to prevent uninstalled ones from installing again.

Title This is a KNOWN ISSUE...... but it's getting old So far nothing has been done by serif, other than recommending the uninstall of system updates. Is it impossible to release a fix for the issue so that it is not necessary to uninstall updates?? Is it possible to make the software work on an updated system?

@lacerto Thanks for the additional info. @Alex M Can the issue be fixed by editing that CVS with correct values? a work around

I got it. Thanks for the answer

As you can see in the image below, the PANTONE palette appears to be presented in RGB with a limited gamut range, something that would and is expected in CMYK. In CMYK, PANTONE colors are basically the same in any color profile. But for some reason the same colors in RGB have a shift Is that intentional? a bug? Can't RGB display almost the entire CMYK gamut?

If they release V2 with everything that is current in V1 plus the features that have always been requested here on the forums, then it won't be a problem. It's been many years since V1 was released, If some expected features haven't been released until now after so many years, maybe it's a lack of interest in releasing them or difficulty implementing certain things in the current version or because it must be hard to add more and more without getting paid for it. For those who have just bought 1.0, it may be scary or weird to talk about a 2.0, but for those who have been using 1.0, 1.X for 5, 8 years and feel stagnant with the lack of features, depending on other software for things like curve/bend/warp text/tool, shape build, knife tool, vector eraser, bitmap trace.... 2.0 with these features is more than welcome. I think what everyone wants is to be able to use Affinity software as a main tool, without relying on other software for those missing things. If in 8 years none of this has been implemented, what is the chance of getting all these features now without paying for it? I'm ready to pay for a new version that has everything the current version has, plus everything that users have been requesting for years. From that point on, we will have another cycle of years with another features being added little by little. Yes, bugfixes may continue to be released for V1 even after V2 is released.

It's been what, 8 years since Designer was released? I'm ready to pay for a new version of all software as soon as they start selling it

This suggestion is basically a copy of what we have with Assets (subcategory) but working for the color palette. Imagine a big project, illustration with several characters, scenes with various elements and so on. The color group option makes it easy to organize colors by characters, elements, accessories or whatever you're doing, without having to create a new palette for each one. You can have the CHARACTERS palette, and within this palette have the characters colors separated into groups. CHARACTERS Palette Character 01 Character 02 .... ________ PLANTS Palette Grass Bush Trees ______ PROJECT X Palette Header elements Body elements Artistic elements Text I think the idea and utility is easy to understand but here is an image to help

In fact, as I explained the document seems to change itself whenever I make a change, and save the main doc or the linked files. The linked files may change to embedded, I believe it happen after a save. I only notice after closing the document, and opening it again on another occasion. So it's hard to know if there's anything triggering it, besides saving, since everything happens silently in the background. It only shows up after I open the file again, and everything looks random. Sometimes everything is normal, sometimes all invisible, sometimes some visible and others with "glitch" (gradient bar). When I replace through "resource manager" I notice that some have become embedded and they are still invisible, so I have to "make linked..." and replace the file to fix it.

If this information is needed, here is my render settings. I've tested with the hardware acceleration turned on and off, same result every time. I'm on Windows 10 (updated), all drivers also updated