UK-Dave

Thanks Patrick and the team. Yep can confirm that Affinity Publisher v2.5.1 is available on the Mac App Store. Successful download, installation and launch. Good to be fully back with the updates across Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher. 😃

Patrick - pleased to say that the Affinity Designer v.2.5.1 update is launching just fine. Thanks. Affinity Photo v2.5 didn't have the same issue but the update is working fine. Affinity Publisher is still at v2.5 on the Mac App Store so just awaiting the updated version to be published there.

Patrick Many thanks for the quick response and positive feedback on resolving this issue. As an App Developer I appreciate that you have to go through the Apple approval process! Look forward to v2.5.1 soon...

Purchased on Mac App Store. Good to hear you may have identified the problem.

Got exactly the same issue with Affinity Designer v2.5 and Affinity Publisher v2.5. The app crashes when loading. Looking at the MacOS crash report suggests an issue with a code exception. Restart makes no difference. Needs a fix. iMac 3.3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5 macOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79)

Downloaded the v2 software suite via the Mac Store. Was able to activate in Affinity Photo 2 by using the buy option and selected Universal Licence. This all just worked through the App Store payment and confirmation process. Then able to activate the Universal Licence for Affixing Designer 2 and Affinity Publisher 2. Lastly checked the Affinity account and the licence detail is displayed in full, including the option for the iPad versions. Hope this helps those who appear to have some problems.

Thanks for prompt feedback and suggestion. Will do.

Been trying to recreate the export issue with the JPG option. Tried with different files, filters and effects but no issue so far. Will keep working with various files and will log if this issue pops up again.

Cannot reproduce the JPG export delay (as I mentioned in the post this seems intermittent). I have attached a video of the blend mode pause but unfortunately this doesn't actually capture the "wheel of death", just the mouse frozen at the last screen update location. Included a time code displayed so you can see the pause starts around 00:00:08.23 and finishes around 00:00:18.33 - therefore lasting 10+ seconds. Hope this is helpful. Will try to re-create the JPG export issue but this is dependent on whether it happens. Blend Range Issue Video.m4v

New version 1.10 working well except there are some slow responses when the dreaded "wheel of death" appears. This doesn't happen all the time which is annoying! Tried a MacOS reboot and reload of Affinity Photo. Memory is set to maximum available with Metal too. This issue has been particularly noticeable on export to JPG files and when using blend ranges on a layer. Seems you have to wait for something in the software to compute before being able to proceed. Hope this can be looked at and fixed.

Very nice tutor Olivio. As always some ingenious techniques to solve multi-gradient masking.