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@Boldlinedesign exactly my approach. Affinity is great and I have based my workflow around these apps but I need additional apps with functionalities Affinity doesn’t have like Acrobat and sometimes Inkscape and maybe in future VS. It is an addition and not a substitution for me 🙂

I have actually only seen mentions of it in comments made by other users and not by any official ads or so in this forum. It is an interesting product with some functions I know from Inkscape but in a better organised way. Inkscape is also a good choice for things Designer can't do like image tracing and path effects. I'm quite happy with Affinity too but I am always open for new software that might enrich my design process. In the end I am also concerned about the future of the Affinity Suite - and they will probably loose me as soon as they introduce a subscription model like Illustrator lost me back then. Yet, I think they are hard working on new features and bug fixes. Let's hope for the best 🙂

Thanks to the Affinity Forum I got pointed to VS. 🙂 I am trying to get used to VS (designing) and maybe use it together with Publisher (layout) and Acrobat (for prepress stage). Designer would be Backup and for already existing projects. Btw would there be a good prepress stage Acrobat like alternative? Any experience in working with this kind of combination? Chris

There was a problem on Intel based Mac computers when having installed the first MacOS 15.4 Beta. Yesterday 15.4 Beta 2 was released and things work again.

After installing 15.4. Beta 2 the issue is gone, Apple seems to have fixed the problem. 🙂

After installing 15.4 Beta 2 everything works fine again. Issue solved by Apple as it seems.

Seems to be only with Intel based processors in combination with MacOS - my M1 and M3 machines work perfectly fine with 15.4 beta. On the same Intel iMac I use bootcamp with the newest Windows 11 Insider Preview and it works without any issues. I know, different code base

True, if it were my only machine I would not install betas. Always having redundancy and fallback systems is certainly the right way to go. And as for Affinity apps you usually should be very experienced in finding work arounds especially after updates (regarding OS and/or app).

In my case because it is not my main computer and I have more modern MacBook Pro too with M1 and M3 which don't have the issue. I have also Windows 11 (also newest Insider Bets) on the same iMac which works perfectly with the new version of the apps. At some point 15.4 will be released and so I thought it is good to bring this up early so they know about a possible problem in the future.

I get this message too sometimes but usually the app is stuck with the saving dialog and I have to shut it down. Seems to be a problem with Intel chipsets and/or the 15.4. beta.

Kind of a work around for now: I am using the apps via Bootcamp now on Win 11 and everything works perfectly 🙂

Thanks because I wanted to revert to an earlier version so I won't try it.

so I am not the only one 🙂 with the previous MacOS it worked fine here too

Hey there, since I have updated to the latest version of the apps on my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) it happens that whenever I open and edit an file from the previous version in any of the three apps and want to save the file the document saving dialog is frozen and I have to forcefully quit the app via Finder. If I use "save as" after a few moments an error message shows up stating the app could not lock the file? It doesn't matter if it is stored on iCloud or local an SSD. Same behaviour. The strange thing is it only happens on my iMac, on my MaBook Pro with M3 (both with the same OS version) it works perfectly fine. Maybe this could be due to the latest update to macOS Sequoia 15.4 Beta? Anyone else does have the same issue? Chris

I have already been able to find an old version of the file and working in 2.5.0 for now. Making various backups now after every major edit to minimise the possibility of another data loss due to corrupted files. Looking forward to hear about it, thanks!