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The best thread to discuss font-related functionality would now be the sub-thread related to the upcoming variable font support in v2.5 beta. IMHO, I would say it is a feature worth adding, because it's something that Adobe offers and is becoming trendier, and could be very popular among big sectors of Affinity's and Canva's userbase. I provided Ash with a recommendation of one of the best experts in colour OpenType-SVG fonts in Europe – and one used to work in the UK, no less –, so the ball is on their court and let's see just how loaded with cash and willing to expand Serif is now, post-acquisition. I take it that they still have to have a bit of restraint in their recruiting process (be it for full-time employees, contractors or consultants), project management and goals, etc., but we should indeed expect speedier development from now on. The ball is on their court, in any case. Interesting as this feature may sound, I highly doubt it will ever be available. It's extremely niche, and might result in quality control issues if lower quality, user-made localisation files ended up on the web. Also, with Affinity potentially becoming bigger, hiring more people for their localisation efforts would render said feature redundant for a lot of communities. And, if I may say so myself as someone from a minority community of one of top languages globally (Portuguese from Portugal, not Brazilian Portuguese), while it saddens me to see the technical design and typography jargon in pt-PT wither away (I do fight against that by recommending technical dictionaries to my students, mind you), I don't see people defaulting to English on technical software as that dire of an issue when it comes to serving a global market (RTL and Indic script support, on the other hand…). These apps' UIs are usually very sparse on text, and YouTube and the web are chock-full of tutorials using the English terminology anyway. My €0,02.

Support for Indic scripts (most of which are LTR, although there are some RTL variations) would be yet another game changer.

Getting Variable Typefaces out, as promised, on next week's beta would be a great sign. Getting colour OpenType-SVG by the end of the v2 cycle or at the beginning of the v3 cycle, an added sign of consolidation on that front. Getting RTL support would be a game-changer market-wise and show that Canva is really serious about this. I know I sound too hung-up on typography, and I'm obviously biased, but, as I've said before, eschewing entire markets and cultures based on technical constraints and… on having bet mostly on certain text/cultural-agnostic professional niches, such as digital illustration, that are pretty much well covered already by competitors (either by Canva itself, which is no longer a competitor, or by other products such as Pixelmator, Procreate, etc.) feels, in hindsight, a bit misguided but arguably still necessary in that earlier context. I didn't personally like it, but I understood that it was necessary for Serif's Affinity's continued survival. 🤷‍♂️ Yes, Serif was trying to secure a few of those niches as their cash cows (and indeed sort of succeeded at it) while they were, as it turns out, strapped for cash (or at least not rich enough to properly tackle Adobe). Conversely, with Canva's backing, they can now go head to head with the proverbial 80lb gorilla and start chipping away at their legacy feature set and keep introducing novel features, i.e. they can walk and chew gum for a change instead of dragging on with development. Again, I know fully well of the Mythical Man-Month fallacy, but it did feel as if Serif was biting more than they could chew, and I do believe that instead of having a tiny team spreading itself thin over three apps on three platforms, having a separate typography team, a separate vector design team, a separate pixel manipulation team, while keeping them tightly-knit – also unlike whatever the hell is going on at Adobe, with their sprawling thousands-strong team and dizzyingly comprehensive family of apps – is not only feasible, but the best way of going about developing a suite like this. That's the optimistic view, which I know many – including myself – don't 100% subscribe to, but we have to at least consider it as a possible scenario. Does it assuage our fears or preclude us from pursuing asset and portfolio migration plans? Sadly, no. Does it at least provide us with a glimmer of hope that we will not only end up in a better place than we are in right now as DTP suite customers, but also better than we were even back when Macromedia MX was still a thing (i.e. not eleven, but twenty years ago)? Maybe… By the way, and while on the subject of Macromedia and competition with Adobe in general, Flash and Dreamweaver, which were the main drivers behind the infamous acquisition (remember GoLive? Yeah, me neither 😂), are now relics of the past, but way before all that went down they did try to go head-to-head with Adobe also on the digital photography editing side of things with their Macromedia xRes product, and failed miserably and promptly threw in the towel by their very first and last attempt, v3 (because, mind you, they didn't even develop it in-house, instead having acquired it from Fauve Software, the true pioneers of layers before even Adobe)… Serif, on the other hand, managed to not only stay afloat for all those years with their Plus suite and then produce something competitive with freaking Photoshop v16 (the 25th anniversary, CC 2015 edition, which had been, by then, an actual verb-worthy product for around two decades and a half, and now for around 35 years), and stuck to it; they have to be commended for that.

Judging by @Patrick Connor's good-humoured reaction to my quip and positive reaction to your insightful comment, one would hope that, if Affinity is to endure as a standalone product or at the very least as an integral, offline and fully professional counterpart to Canva (hey, it wouldn't even bother me if they renamed the apps to Canva Designer, Canva Photo and Canva Publisher at some point, as long as they were still offered in a perpetual license), it should target the same markets as Canva does already. It makes sense from a financial, but also from a customer relations standpoint, because once many of Canva's current and future users get accustomed to what it is to them vital RTL support, they will naturally expect it from Affinity/the professional branch of Canva as well and might be severely disappointed if it just wasn't there. As such, I fully expect it to become a thing by at least v3, by which point it will be heavily marketed towards current Canva users as having basic feature parity and then some. Bingo! In the early beginnings, with Affinity being a Mac-only application and having a very modern look and feel to it, it seemed as if Serif was just using macOS's own text rendering stack; it quickly dawned on us all that Affinity had, in fact, an inherently portable engine, which meant it must've been using its own text renderer from the very beginning. I find it a bit concerning that RTL wasn't considered from the very beginning, as it is absolutely necessary for full Unicode compliance. At this point, almost eleven years in, I would expect Affinity to also offer vertical RTL support for CJK scripts and an equivalent to Adobe's Multiline Composer… I know that is a bit of a lofty ask, but hey, maybe for v3.5? 😉

Any timeline on the RTL support? I am a heavy Indesign user but would gladly switch if Affinity supported RTL.

Don't hold your breath Affinity will NOT support any RTL or and thing else that is not Latin based - They shy away from the topic with the usual "Currently not support or no plans" which frankly becomes tedious and annoying - So don't waste your time posting these as NOTHING will be done about it.

From a very quick perusal of the Canva site, it would seem they support many different RTL languages, so it is possible this will help with adding RTL support to Affinity. I guess time will tell ....

Don't even get me started on its glaring lack of RTL support, which basically eschews a gigantic chunk of the international market… I've beaten that horse so much here in the forums it's basically glue by now. 😂

Thanks Mike I hadn't thought about the absolute page numbering detail. I had forgotten about using Pagemaker. I feel certain that when moving Indesign pages in a book with say roman numeral prelims say—i,to xvi— then that was treated as a section so moving a group of arabic numbered pages would move only those pages so you didn't need to add 16pp to your selection. I will be interested to see how this progresses. Thanks for the history

Please fix the arabic languages because it written left to right letters But the truth that arabic language written right to left So we can design comfortably without using any other apps

I don't think there will be fully-fledged web apps. But it will certainly incorporate some of the rudimentary functions of the Affinity Suite. And as far as Linux (Wine) support is concerned, I wouldn't get my hopes up for the time being. There are enough development priorities that have priority here. Above all, the stability of the programs, RTL and CJK support (with possible extended localization), to name some. However, the development roadmap may be different!

They could, however, have reasons to kill products that compete with Canva. Though it’s patently obvious that they target slightly different segments of the market, and that they’re adjacent enough for Affinity to be a bit of an upsell/upgrade, which might give Canva an edge over Figma or whatever lower-priced clone – offered under an equally lower-priced subscription tier, of course – Adobe may create or acquire at some point. As I’ve said: this all comes down to how greedy, complacent and/or shortsighted Canva’s executives may be in the future. Yes, they may see the cheap perpetual licenses with no extensive on-line sync and collaboration features as a gateway for more profitable – or at least more consistent as far as revenue is concerned – subscriptions, but the case for them being able to milk us all due to an independent option like Affinity – especially Affinity Publisher, even in its incomplete, RTL- and multiline-composer-less form! – no longer being available can also be made. For Affinity’s perpetual licenses to be completely safe, the folks over at VectorStyler and those at Pixelmator would have to partner up and somehow concoct a PageDesigner (sorry, FOSS peepz, Inkscape+Gimp+Scribus just don’t cut it on a technical level, because they’re frankly horrible in different ways and aren’t integrated in any meaningful way like LibreOffice is, so they don’t even have that redeeming quality going for them) and start eating away at both Adobe’s and Canva’s user base with the perpetual licenses they also based their business model on, because that’s how healthy markets work, with proper checks and balances, and not as duopolies. And I’m not even joking about this; with one company based in Salo, Finland, and the other in Vilnius, Lithuania, they’re practically neighbours when compared to the Canva-Serif pairing, and almost on the same longitude, let alone the same time zone. Heck, if either team was up to learning the other’s exceptionally weird native language, they might even properly merge and still be able to visit their loved ones every now and then after a short flight or 11-hour drive (or shorter, after that newfangled Finland-Estonia tunnel under the Baltic Sea is finished, of course, and let’s not forget the high-speed train corridor that’s being built over there as well). And, to wit and from a geopolitical/economical/regulatory standpoint, because I did mention the US’s and someone else mentioned the Aussie context as well, it would neatly split all actors between the behemoth that is the US, the historical Commonwealth (yes, we can see how synergies across it are easier, that’s not being called into question) and the EU (especially the Baltics and the Finns, which might very well stick together or at least forge powerful alliances even in a post-EU scenario, for reasons I’m pretty sure I won’t have to elaborate on here), thus keeping things a bit more cohesive and compartmentalized, i.e. safer from acquisitions across those “borders”. It would be a huge win for us all as consumers. 🤷‍♂️

For the maximum possible expansion of the product, it would certainly like RTL and vertical. - Optimization of curves, reduction of redundant nodes. - Support for plugins with which applications can be extended. - Support for macros/scripts that can be used to perform frequently performed actions. + many more from the "Feedback and Suggestions" thread 🙂

Yes as I mentioned in my previous reply V2 have almost every things needed to work its need some work arounds with image tracer and rtl support which I'm fine with at least we got what we bought 🐱, my expectations is low very low but let's see what time will brings us.

Yes, I know about that. But as several people have already mentioned, Canva already has experience in several of the things Affinity users have been asking for, like RTL support, so it is not as if they are starting from scratch for all of it.

Yes, that's an important consideration. But there are areas where a new group of developers could help, such as Variable Font support, or Scripting, or RTL support, which may offer large functional areas that can be largely isolated so they can be worked on separately and on their own schedules. That can mitigate the effects that Brooks discussed.

Thank you for clarifying this mr Walt, for me the V2.4.1 have everything I need if I need auto tracer I go with inkscape if I need RTL I go with leomoon so my expectations are low in this maters but to have V2 better thank run into V3 subscription. I appreciate your comment,

The missing functions and futures like auto trace and rtl support etc .. is the only winner card for V3 or Canva suite v3 or whatever, Lower you expectations we all in same boat and show some respect

With the new funds as resources, does this mean people like me who are interested in RTL Languages will be more of a strong reality in the very soon future as opposed to the usual Serif replies of "having to reprogram from the grounds up because RTL language support" is a complex process? They missed out a huge opportunity to potentially capture the market share in India, Arabic Diaspora, Hebrew, and East Asian (Mandation, Japanese, Etc). Regardless of this news, can we also remember the company's kindness and understanding during the pandemic? Serif for the longest time discounted their softwares to 50%. Does anyone remember this? I have privately expressed my grievances towards Affinity and I refuse to upgrade to any of their software until they include the RTL Languages. For my needs, Publisher 1.X has served me well and will continue to do so. I am a current Adobe CC Photography Plan member and also continue to be perpetual license holder of Capture one 16.3.X. Their Black Friday deal of 50% off the perpetual license was too good to pass up! These fees (to me) are cost of doing business and I'll simply adjust my fees accordingly. Can we be little bit more optimistic and hopeful?!

The simple fact that Canva is subscription based is enough to ring the alarm bells that Affinity WILL BE the same and there is nothing ASH & Co. can do as they have bought out and they simply cannot make this decision. Affinity simply does not have the cash or man power like Canva to take these trio forward and this simply means the only option however with a lot of caveat - It would would have been better to approach Adobe or Corel or even Microsoft than Canva and they fact Canva approached them simply means they were not in a great position - Some of their practice is wrong some of the most fundamental features (RTL Support) were and are not even considered and we are reaching 2.4.1. - Senier engineers have left the company - So Canva was a life save for Affinity (At least) - Don't for one moment think you will not be forced into subscription scheme - I will be amazed if we even see version 3!!!!

From an article in Business Wire: Is it too much to hope that their multilingual experience could be leveraged to address the Affinity apps’ current lack of support for Indic and RTL languages?

Right to left rendering would be lovely for Middle Eastern scripts and Arabic/Hebrew rendering - something I’ve used a lot of in another application that has changed its financial plan recently forcing me away. Currently no ligatures function, and the text renders the wrong way around.

I too am very disappointed that RTL is not an option. I do love affinity, but now I will have to find another source to do a large portion of my work that was intended for Affinity. Again, I love Affinity so far, but I am really hoping that this becomes an option really soon.

Hi, Not a feature request, but a short recap of what I still miss to make Publisher my page layout program. As a premise, I must say that I'm a technical writer, with the occasional narrative/philosophy book on which to work. So, my needs are very much specialistic, and not obviously general. - Export to DOCX. This is a file format that would allow exporting to word processors for further reuse, and to programs to be used to generate reflowable ePub books. It would open many opportunities for integrating Publisher into consolidated workflows. - Export to IDML. This would let InDesign users open Publisher files without too many issues. Reuse would be finally possible, and Publisher will be allowed in a consolidated workflow (as is, for example, LibreOffice or Google Docs into a workflow based on the DOCX file format). - Support for long and complex tables. As a technical writer, it is easy to understand how essential this feature would be. - Picture frame/object styles. Being able to quickly adapt the style of image frames to a different house style or output type is essential. For example, I could have shadowed images in the onscreen reading version, and have to remove them for digital printing. Styles would let one do it by just applying a template or editing some parameters in a style. - Accurate CJK language support. I just need the horizontal version, with correct spacing and line breaks. In my agenda, China and Japan are essential markets for both devices and books. - RTL language support. While a less immediate need than CJK support for me, this is important. I have to admit that these wouldn't really be a show-stopper for me, at the moment, since my partners usually prefer to work on a Word/LibreOffice file. But it would be handy, when making multilingual publications and wanting to avoid pasting text as images. - Conditional text. I make different versions of the same project, and conditional text would let me keep all the source materials in the same file. Check a few conditions, and you go from a larger edition to a limited one, or to one for a customized model. - Scripting. This is very much tied to the ability of exporting to different file formats, so it would be a bit premature. Batch-converting several files would be my main use of scripting in Publisher. So, maybe I just need a batch-convert feature. I would like more things (like export to a web site project, or finer navigation through a structure tree), but the above would really be enough to allow abandoning InDesign once forever. And getting able to take advantage of the integration with the other Affinity programs. Paolo

People have requested an equivalent post for the fixes in 2.0.0 to 2.0.4 2.0.x Bug Fixes This post covers the main bug fixes that are included in 2.0.4. The bug fixes are organised by operating system. (A) Bug fixes which affected all platforms Add Boolean operation slowdown/hang system. Force quit needed to close Affinity. Add Boolean operation with rotated object fails to produce correct result Add operation can make other shape disappear Boolean Add and Divide Operation fails on a flipped shape Boolean Add can create duplicate nodes in the same spot Boolean Add doesn't combine overlapping paths with multiple objects selected. Boolean Add Operation causes Corner Tool to apply incorrectly Boolean Add operation fails on objects aligned to non square grids Boolean Divide deletes part of the shape Boolean Operation fails on small object with 'curves' that contains a curve with one node Boolean operation hangs Affinity until it runs out of resources or you force quit. Boolean operations - shape with multiple curves needs two operations to join Boolean operations fail on specific document, but succeed as Compound Booleans Boolean operations failing - objects disappear from the screen. Boolean operations issues Corner Tool and Boolean operations: Boolean operations may create smooth nodes where they should be sharp thus the Corner tool becomes unusable on them Crash - attempting to use Boolean Add twice on the same curve Crash when Boolean add curves - File specific Divide Boolean operation keeps creating layers/objects when we press the Divide button several times Divide example used in Designer Workbook no longer works Divide not functioning correctly when objects are placed inside each other Divide on Compound Objects gives excess objects Divide operation applied certain shapes may lead to failed results when there's overlapping lines Divide operation fails when using Open Curves to define areas to be divided. Divide/Combine operations cause app to freeze Dividing shapes cause excess curves to be created Duplicating linked text frames on a master doesn't duplicate the link on the pages Edit Text Style dialog has textured line option under Decorations File specific incorrect Boolean results Guides from the grand parent (nested master) not shown on a Master IDML file crashes Pub attempting to open Importing Text Styles fails to see the same default Decoration based styles as the same Intersecting curve fails to divide Layer Effects applied from Style varies depending on size of object Non-destructive Boolean operations don't work with smart nodes. Pencil Tool: freeze when using Rope Stabiliser and Pressure Place PDF scale - not right when no raster data Rename 'Reset Formatting' to be 'Reapply Text Styles' Right hand facing page position not correct when child Master pages are used Sharp Corners get converted to Smooth on Boolean Add Stroke order enabled for table cells Subtract Boolean operation leaves stroke where should have been a clean space Subtracting Boolean operation is very slow (possibly never ending) SVG fails to error if containing invalid syntax Text on a Path 'jumps' when editing the Donut shape with the Node tool Unexpected result with Subtract Boolean operation Using the Select object/ transparency object selects all objects Translation Improvements Help file improvements (B) Bug fixes which affected Desktop (Windows and macOS) .afpub crash on open, possible issue rendering selected object Adjusting Table Inset Causes Immediate Crash Adjustment Layer in group prevents PDF in picture frame exporting Affinity seems to ignore 'ClipPath' values in an SVG afpackage with complex PDFs has high memory/disk usage on load AFPhoto document fails to place correctly when using 'TrimBox After editing a Text style the last field in this edit is shown if you edit another text style Align to Baseline Grid doesn't respect the Baselines Start Position unless Text Frame > Vertical Position > Minimum is set to the same value Align to Baseline Grid Text Frame option does not work when a Frame Inset value is set and Relative To : Insets is used Aligning Artistic Text to spread fails to redraw Anchors in detached frames can't be deleted in the Anchor Panel Applying a Perlin noise filter to an object on a Master Page crashes Publisher Applying master causing crash Attached IDML file crashes Pub on import Blend Options, blend ranges: it's possible to create nodes out of range (above 100%) Bounding boxes can become detached for layers in a Symbol Character style > Next style does nothing Cmd+F does not place focus in the input field in the Find and Replace panel in certain circumstances Copy - paste of tab separated text skips the last entry if the hard return is not selected Copy - paste text frame - Paragraph style of last line is ignored if last line is empty Copy and Pasting multiple selections in a row doesn't paste the most recent clipboard entry Copy paste Arabic text from docx uses the wrong font Corner tool causes freezing when marquee selecting multiple nodes Corner Tool is incredibly slow to use on specific file Crash editing an embedded document Crash when Ctrl-Z undoing after performing an Insert Index. Crash when typing in copy/pasted frame - file specific Customer File: Unable to Relink or Replace 'missing' resource Data merge manager > Changing the sheet does not auto-update the sheet data Data Merge with Excel file and text formatting can cause missing text when merged Default Heading Text Styles aren't retained when drawing a new text frame Deleting an artboard should prompt to keep objects Document crashes when clicking through a Pattern Layer in the document view Document fails to export to PDF due to invalid Dash Patterns Document specific crash switching image between floating/pinned Double clicking pinned objects with Move Tool doesn't switch to their relevant 'editing' tool Dragging Text Frame beyond first line of Baseline Grid doesn't appear to work correctly Dragging text from one table cell to another places text in a seemingly random cell Drop cap crashes into lower line even after checking Scale for descenders Drop caps should use character baseline for height DropCaps with Baseline Grid - incorrect line height Embed ICC profiles in PDF export is inconsistently enabled/disabled between Mac and Windows EPS and WMF export crash if missing resources File crashes after a few minutes File Crashes composing text Find and Replace - Replace producing differing results to replace all 'Full width' punctuation, such as Chinese commas don't justify / flow correctly Hang - Select some text and insert TOC Hyperlinks with spaces in the middle of the URL fail to export to PDF Hyperlinks within cells can be incorrectly created and then cannot be deleted IDML document cannot be saved as .afpub after import - Save failed because the file couldn't be written to IDML file crashes Pub on opening IDML file with overridden master page imports incorrectly Import Styles affected by DPI Incorrect vertically justified columns Index Entries can be renamed to be blank Inline image + Placed image with text wrap gives unexpected gaps Insert TOC halfway through paragraph does nothing Invert Pixel selections gets shifted based on Bleed Size It's possible to select objects on empty pages in specific circumstances Justification doesn't disable ligatures correctly Learning words on Mac leaves capitalised instances of that word underlined Light UI - Stroke Panel - Arrow Icons not clear/visible Line of wrapping text sometimes disappears when scaling object pinned to its frame Linked afpub file doesn't display pages until selected Linking non-empty master page text frames asserts Lookup flag IgnoreMarks is ignored Make Linked on an Embedded image that was Converted to Image Resource creates a 96DPI file, but reports as 300DPI (matching the document/original image DPI) Marquee selection is off Marquee selections get shifted based on the bleed size Merge runs of tabs using leaders Missing "Compact group rows" in the layers panel > hamburger menu Missing translation on Image Resource Policy warning message Objects disappear using 'Add' with 'Insert Inside' Opacity and Tint sliders do nothing within a Master Page text frame, applied to a spread OpenAsset images have wrong colours in CMYK document Opening .afpub files causes app to close Opening attached file crashes Publisher Optical Alignment fails for Japanese Accented (sonant) characters Paragraph > Decoration > Colour fly-out displays swatches in RGB and not CMYK PDF export fail > Anchor to table > File specific PDF export fails we if have have an Anchor to a linked PDF PDF Export: some images are being exported flipped PDF fails to export with anchor to object outside of page bounds PDF Import, 'Group lines of text into text frames' UI state is remembered, causing unexpected import results Pinned objects (or any child objects) go missing when text is converted to curves Placed .afpub file with bleed set to BleedBox shifts images when exporting without rasterisation / bleed Placing .docx file with paragraph spacing larger than 1x offsets diacritic marks from characters Placing XLSX file causes app crash Preflight - Custom Bleed Dimension not persisted correctly prevent line breaking of URL's Quick Mask - Crash in Photo Persona when dragging selection box RegEx Find and replace - Not advancing to next result Relatively simple Boolean operation takes large minutes to perform (Add/Combine): Designer seems to freeze Removing a Hyperlink via right click will result in a fragmented hyperlink if multiple words are linked Replacing hyperlinks over multiple words can create new hyperlinks Replacing images with HEIC files causes crash Resizing a Linked Document in a frame has different behavior for embedded/linked Resource manager does not highlight the parent of the same resource placed twice Right Aligned Tab not going up to the frame edge Section Manager not honouring Decimal Grouping symbol Sentence Case fails to convert ' Y ' in Spanish text from all caps Show Group Thumbnails naming inconsistency between platforms Single radius tick box missing from shape's context toolbar Slow opening, utilises all Memory. Some references to Data Merge Node should be Data Merge Layout Spacebar + Alt + click zooms out and pans far away from document Stroke Panel doesn't always round up values allowing you to type invalid stroke widths that fail to export to PDF Switching to master doesn't always take you to a master applied to the current page Table format - Colour is always rendered as RGB Text > Insert Filler Text adds the same text to every frame when a non-text tool is active Text Frame default attributes saving/updating inconsistently Text Frame layer names don't instantly update Text Frame panel bug when frame breaks are applied Text inside a pinned group is not included in TOC Text objects are visually clipped when aligning with another and requires a force redraw Text Style panel samples can be poor quality Text Styles that are based on existing and use Typography incorrectly show + in the Context Toolbar Tiling when drawing a shape for the first time on master page Unable to work with afpub document with embedded PDFs Undo while brushing > Crash Unsupported Unicode Characters appear when the font doesn't support them Updating TOC hangs the app - File specific User File - PDF opens with missing image data User file with lots of nested groups causes the app to hang when export User file: Applying a Master Page to a Page with an inline image causes a crash User file: Fails to export to PDF due to 2x rectangle objects with 0 width User File: IDML crashing on open User file: rendering issue flowing text frame with 2 columns & text wrap Users IDML file text not parsing correctly on opening %63 is showing as letter C When doing a Data Merge without converting a Artboard to spread the app freezes XLS spreadsheet with From control crashes app Xlsx from LibreOffice Places without values Zoom out loses track of cursor position/click making the document jump around Many other desktop fixes (C) Bugs fixed which specifically affected Windows afpackage with many linked PDF's takes up too much memory/disk space on load Application crash when searching within the font selection menu on specific Windows update Assets panel is enabled by default on Windows but disabled by default on Mac Associated Tool should ignore Photo specific tools Attached file gets stuck opening Auto updating linked resources causes a permissions error Bleed Colour chooser, setting value by key doesn't apply to bleed Character Panel Crash adding page into combined doc Crash deleting tab stops which should no longer exist when document is closed Crash on new document when installed to non default location Crash when dismissing error that document is corrupted, regression from 1.9.2 Crash when entering Photo's preferences in Publisher whilst Designer is not installed Crash when right clicking a Vector image using Place Image tool Crashing with rapid key presses [TextTool::GetContentType] Customer crash after hitting space Customer File: Crash when updating / fixing outdated resources from OneDrive when manually added to master page object Decoration stroke has textured line style on Windows, not Mac Decorations > Enabled checkbox does not match settings when dialog box is reopened Drag and drop from browser to document doesn't work for Chrome and Edge on Windows Dragging Master Page to Page causes master pages to scroll to the bottom Easter Egg Cat style didn't get updated on Windows Export Persona: Changing options doesn't modify slices using presets File > Place will filter to Text files if a Embedded Document is selected. Find and replace - pressing ‘find’ on a newly opened document with an empty search field will freeze text heavy documents Font size doesn't localise the decimal separator when unticking 'Show text in points' Hang when scrolling through Slices Panel Import Text Styles works with .aftemplate documents, but they are not included in the file filter list on Windows Importing IDML file with linked images breaks the file paths in resource manager 'Include Printer Marks' checkbox gets disabled when clicking other checkboxes Last character extends beyond text frame with specific fonts, typography settings & a right indent tab Limit initial zoom to a maximum of 100% preference not working Limit initial zoom to a maximum of 100% preference only works for the first loaded file Miscellaneous keyboard shortcuts are not saved when 'Apply to All' is active Moving mouse down Line End list causes the line end option to 'jump' back up to none New Transform option Tooltip is different on Windows. No Select Same Colour Tag or Same Name on the right click menu Occasional crash when duplicating symbols Optical Alignment max value within text style editor is 100%, no cap in character studio Pages Panel is visible in the Designer Persona using StudioLink Pencil Tool gets stuck on if you use Alt+Shift whilst drawing Placing a PSD causes a Placed PDF is missing or broken preflight message PSD exported from our apps crash during import - File specific Quick Access to Node Tool no longer allows you to insert node on Windows Remove Styles from Paragraphs/Characters does not clear Styles on Windows Rename Layer should trigger on Mouse Up rather than Mouse Down Resample options don't appear unless using Pixels or Points as document units on Windows Section Manager does not update switching between documents Select All fails in resource manager on Windows Shift Select fails after moving a layer Specific document generates duplicate images when saved as a package Swatch Palette fails to update after selecting a fill Text Ruler paragraph indent cannot be dragged independently of the first line indent Text Styles fail to appear in Table Formats dialog if they've never been displayed Unable to right click in ToC Seperator field Unable to select object with the move tool after being rasterised Underscore in style name is not escaped on the right click menu + other places Vector Brush can get stuck on Solid Line Style & the stroke width cannot be changed Viewport scrollbar is limited does not scroll all the way down to the last page. Many other Windows specific fixes (D) Bugs fixed which specifically affected macOS Adding an Auto Correction for 'Oeil' with French selected will result in a freeze All apps crashing when exporting to any format (macOS Ventura only) Anchor Panel - Button state App crash when printing a 2nd document after sending a doc with artboards to print Applied Swatch not highlighted in Text Style editor Applying a Style and Next Style causes odd behavior in document Colour Hex field highlights red when using letters Crash when printing on macOS Crash when resizing table - file specific Customer File: Crash on open with M1 Metal enabled Data merge manager appears on top of the finder window Document units always defaults to MM / Milimetres after relaunching the app DocX crashes on place Drop caps > Style > separator Edit detached redraw issue Edit text style > Drop caps > Character > Auto tick box does not work properly Export preset isn't added until export window is re-opened Font styles duplicate after switching to category containing them. Go To Master requires user to reselect Master A if they wish to go to that Master. Hyperlinks panel (URL, File, Email): crash when creating and/or editing these link types (macOS Ventura only) IDML - File crashing on load If you access New Document dialog whilst Full Screen it will switch workspace Insert Anchor can lead to app being in locked state Layer loses selection when hiding a different layer Mac OS Ventura Font Manager crashes Publisher MacOS Ventura - enabling baseline grid crashes app Min/max Page box is wrong for placed documents with Outer Shadow Opening PDF & Ai files crashes all Affinity apps (macOS Ventura only) Page > Spread properties dialog cut off first time it opens Page numbers truncated in Section Manager Photo Persona contains incorrect behaviour and icon for 'Group Layers' Print dialog doesn't commit changes when pressing Print Renaming anchor creates duplicate of it Save, Place and Export dialogs do not have correct Z order Saving to External Drive gives Failed to Save error on macOS Ventura Scaling options under Spread Setup, UI issue after rescaling spread size Select Same > Name and Tag Colour are not disabled with no objects selected. Styles panel > Add new Category in Spanish has got the wrong string Swatches palette dropdown - overlapping text Symbol Name doesn't change text colour when UI mode is switched Tabbing order of Transform Panel is incorrect in Separated Mode. Table panel default width is too tight to display controls properly Text Styles panel may truncate style names without clear indication Umlauts copied from Affinity don't paste into MSWord User File: Shows 0 values for Left / First Line Indent on macOS, correct values shown on Windows Using arrow keys to navigate the Edit Preflight Profile window doesn't refresh right side to show selected item's settings Yukon Standard Time zone produces the incorrect time Zoom to Fit & Zoom to Width have the same name in French Many other macOS specific fixes (E) Bugs fixed which specifically affected iPad Brush names do not get translated when switching language Cannot set margins for artboards Check Spelling option not persistent after closing the app Guides ignore Ruler Origin position Importing assets automatically changes the Assets category to a different category when the import finishes Predictive text not working in iPad keyboard Setting iPad Display Zoom to Zoomed breaks display Text Frames - Vertical Alignment (and Justification) are not available in the iPad version Text Studio: there's no colour well/control to set or remove text's background colour There's no way to import colour palettes Unable to create or duplicate brushes in languages other than English Unable to scroll brush categories when moving a brush if you have over 21 categories Many other iPadOS specific fixes Affinity Windows applications include the fixes in lists (A)+(B)+(C) (A) Bugs fixes affecting All Apps + (B) Bug fixes affecting desktop Apps + (C) those fixes affecting Windows Affinity macOS applications include the fixes in lists (A)+(B)+(D) (A) Bugs fixes affecting All Apps + (B) Bug fixes affecting desktop Apps + (D) Bug fixes affecting macOS Affinity iPad applications include the fixes in list (A)+(E) (A) Bugs fixes affecting All Apps + (E) Bug fixes affecting iPads. These list are just the highlights of the many (300+) fixes made during the recent 2.1.0 beta cycle, which are listed in full in this post . If you have reported a bug and it is not yet fixed, please do not worry or report it again. More fixes will be made in the forthcoming 2.2 beta cycle.