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We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.9.0 Changes in this Build A highlights explanation can be found here: 5 things you should know about Affinity Designer 1.9 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.0 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.8.5) are as follows: New Features: Powerful contour tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves (learn more) Select Same to efficiently match attributes such as fill colour, stroke colour, stroke weight, transparency, blend mode or shape type (learn more) Select Object to select all objects of a certain type within your document to make editing even easier (learn more) Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card) Studio presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations (also learn more) Linked images and Resource Manager (learn more) PDF passthrough option added Save As Package feature to collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder (learn more) Divide blend mode added Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100% (learn more) Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Blend Ranges dialog in the Layers Panel Curves numeric field controls Blend modes for mask layers Added export preview to export dialog (for raster types) Create brushes from current pixel selection (learn more) Content sync of store purchases (requires registration). This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixes & Improvements: Elliptical marquee automatically creates from centre Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path Snap to pixel selection bounds Configurable bleed and margin guide colours When creating a global colour from an object also apply it Filter effects now work properly with global colours Original file name no longer saved as "Title" in PDF, after renaming the file Fixed inability to change document dimensions while aspect ratio was unlocked When items copied as SVG they could not be pasted as text Fixed Tools getting stuck in the hand tool cursor after using spacebar + alt and click to zoom out Added Canvas Rotation option to Preferences New Samples Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements Performance improvements UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Designer). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key). If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.1 The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.1 over the release build Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.0 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: General Fixed Crashes and errors when using the My Account option Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales Fixed crash on open for a number of reported 1.8 / beta documents Fixed intermittent crash on applying Master Page (Mac) Fixed issue causing some UI icons to be rendered at incorrect sizes (Mac) Fixed New Document dialog scheming on older macOS (Mac) Fixed 'Monochromatic Iconography' (Mac) Fixed toolbar height in separated mode (Windows) Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file (Windows) Fixed crash on shutdown while "My Account" content is still downloading (Windows) Fixes to mitigate issues with hardware acceleration on some systems Document Loading Fixed possible crash when opening files with iCloud based image resources Fix for documents failing to load due to infinite loop with Constraints and certain document structures Fixed potential hang while composing text in text frames with non-default Vertical Alignment Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only. Text Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped Paragraph > Justification > Minimum, Desired and Maximum word spacing controls inoperative Added Glyph Picker for Initial Words characters Interactive > Go To Hyperlink can crash if no target Fix for wrap settings on pinned objects not always updating correctly Fixed scaling instability with inline text objects under certain circumstances Objects inserted into Master Page text were not updating correctly on regular pages Truncate long Find and Replace MRU menu entries to prevent UI overflow Spelling applied through Paragraph style only takes effect after re-applying the style Pressing delete whilst unlinking frames causes a crash Fixed possible crash when inserting a TOC (Windows) Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible Import / Export / Resources Fixed blocking that could occur when placing especially large raster heavy PDF files Updating a PDF via Resource Manager resets Interpret / Passthrough state IDML Import - Fixed unlocking of layers coming from IDML Import IDML Import - Fix for Text Styles not applied correctly with specific file IDML Import - Fix for rotated items in Picture Frames IDML Import - For failure to import some text items in Table cells IDML Import - Fix for crash on import of specific file(s) PDF Import - Improvements to how PDF Import handles text lists. Ambiguity between Roman numeral "c" and Latin letter "c" is handled better. PDF Import - Fix for clipping paths being incorrectly identified as redundant and discarded in some circumstances PDF Export - PDF set for Passthrough crops incorrectly PDF Export - Fixed crash exporting file with Bookmarks EPS Import - Fixed failure to detect colour space when the EPS only had shades Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files Placed landscape afpub files could be treated as portrait under certain circumstances Unable to create custom export presets - options disabled Fix for performance problems when placing an asset which contains images Updating images via Resource Manager was resetting scale Resource Manager now sorts by page number (Mac) Save As Package fails on macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) or earlier (Mac) Fixed Resource Manager on older macOS Tools and Rendering Transform Objects Separately was ignored for some operations Align buttons were modifying master page content when used in "Edit Detached" mode Fix for parts of some master page objects / paragraph decorations not showing in bleed on regular pages Recent colours are now updated when changing a Table cell Fill or Stroke Items contained on a master page's bleed area disappeared when zoomed in Changes, improvements and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Publisher Windows update announcement The 1.9 new features are explained by our team in this video and in more detail in links from this post UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key). If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.1 Changes in this build The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.9.1 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.9.0 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: General Fixed Crashes and errors when using the My Account option Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales Fixed crash on open for a number of reported 1.8 / beta documents Fixed intermittent crash on applying Master Page (Mac) Fixed issue causing some UI icons to be rendered at incorrect sizes (Mac) Fixed New Document dialog scheming on older macOS (Mac) Fixed 'Monochromatic Iconography' (Mac) Fixed toolbar height in separated mode (Windows) Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file (Windows) Fixes to mitigate issues with hardware acceleration on some systems Document Loading Fixed possible crash when opening files with iCloud based image resources Fix for documents failing to load due to infinite loop with Constraints and certain document structures Fixed potential hang while composing text in text frames with non-default Vertical Alignment Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only. Text Text in scaled text frame could change size when grouped Paragraph > Justification > Minimum, Desired and Maximum word spacing controls inoperative Added Glyph Picker for Initial Words characters Interactive > Go To Hyperlink can crash if no target Fix for wrap settings on pinned objects not always updating correctly Fixed scaling instability with inline text objects under certain circumstances Objects inserted into Master Page text were not updating correctly on regular pages Truncate long Find and Replace MRU menu entries to prevent UI overflow Spelling applied through Paragraph style only takes effect after re-applying the style Pressing delete whilst unlinking frames causes a crash Fixed possible crash when inserting a TOC (Windows) Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible Import / Export / Resources Fixed blocking that could occur when placing especially large raster heavy PDF files Updating a PDF via Resource Manager resets Interpret / Passthrough state IDML Import - Fixed unlocking of layers coming from IDML Import IDML Import - Fix for Text Styles not applied correctly with specific file IDML Import - Fix for rotated items in Picture Frames IDML Import - For failure to import some text items in Table cells IDML Import - Fix for crash on import of specific file(s) PDF Import - Improvements to how PDF Import handles text lists. Ambiguity between Roman numeral "c" and Latin letter "c" is handled better. PDF Import - Fix for clipping paths being incorrectly identified as redundant and discarded in some circumstances PDF Export - PDF set for Passthrough crops incorrectly PDF Export - Fixed crash exporting file with Bookmarks EPS Import - Fixed failure to detect colour space when the EPS only had shades Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files Placed landscape afpub files could be treated as portrait under certain circumstances Fix for performance problems when placing an asset which contains images Updating images via Resource Manager was resetting scale Resource Manager now sorts by page number (Mac) Save As Package fails on macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) or earlier (Mac) Fixed Resource Manager on older macOS Tools and Rendering Transform Objects Separately was ignored for some operations Align buttons were modifying master page content when used in "Edit Detached" mode Fix for parts of some master page objects / paragraph decorations not showing in bleed on regular pages Recent colours are now updated when changing a Table cell Fill or Stroke Items contained on a master page's bleed area disappeared when zoomed in Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Publisher macOS update announcement The 1.9 new features are explained by our team in this video and in more detail in links from this post UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Publisher > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.9.1 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.9.1 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.9.0 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: My Account & Registration system improvements and fixes. This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixed numerous brush management issues. Fixed toolbar height in separated mode. Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only. Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped. TIFF loading fixes. Assets improvements and fixes. Fixed some icons being very small. Fixed incorrect/missing cursor issues. Fixed crash loading large TGA files. Fixed monochromatic iconography option not working. Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. Fixed marquee selection issues on Apple Silicon devices. Fixed New Document dialog on older macOS versions. Fix for some old documents with Constraints failing to load properly if they contained Compound objects. Fix for Compound node operation mode chooser not being available in the Layers studio. Fixed Resource Manager on OS X 10.9 Fix for updating images via Resource Manager causing image scale to be reset. Fixed printing crash when the document has multiple artboards. Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings. Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (i.e. single holes). New samples. Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes. Help and Localisation improvements Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8.x (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Designer macOS update announcement The 1.9 new features are explained by our team in this video UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

Hi, I'm macOs user and the performance of the application sometimes becomes slow, I have an Intel graphics card of 6000 and 8 gb of ram I would like that in the person tab you can include a raw editor easier to use and more complete with radial filter, I have to use adjustment layers to edit and is a very slow and annoying process, thank you

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Designer, version 1.9.1 (note this 1.9.1 build calls itself 1.9.7 in the about box, but is nevertheless 1.9.1 for bug reporting purposes) Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Designer for iPad 1.9.1 (over the last release Affinity Designer for iPad 1.9.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Fix for copying and pasting symbols between documents causing a crash. Fixed printing crash when the document has multiple artboards. Fix for occasional crash creating Text Styles. Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only. Fix for some old documents with Constraints failing to load properly if they contained Compound objects. Fix for some brush packs causing the current brush to become 'stuck' so others could not be chosen. Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. Fixed mirroring objects to transform individually based on tool settings. Fixed scaled text frame increasing text size when grouped. Fixed crash loading large TGA files. Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. Improved performance of snapping by restricting inner bound snapping to objects with no more than two curves (ie, single holes). Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF. My Account & Registration system improvements and fixes. This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps New Samples. Assorted other small fixes. Improved performance with large documents Help & localisation improvements Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Designer iPadOS update announcement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t panic if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.1 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for iPad 1.9.1 (over the last release Affinity Photo 1.9.0) are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Updated lens data (see here). My Account & Registration system improvements and fixes. This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only. Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped. Fixed shadows & highlights rendering bug. TIFF loading fixes. Further TGA fixes for large files. Assets improvements and fixes. Fixed crash loading large TGA files. Fixed bug when erasing from a panorama source mask. Fixed CR3 bugs. Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF. Fixed assorted live filter issues. Fixed live stack with live perspective issues when the source images have differing orientations. New samples. Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes. Help and localisation improvement. Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Photo iPadOS update announcement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad App Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t contact us if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.1 The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.9.1 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.0 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Updated lens data (see here). My Account & Registration system improvements and fixes. This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixed numerous brush management issues. Fixed toolbar height in separated mode. Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only. Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped. Fixed shadows & highlights rendering bug. Astrophotography bad pixel tool improvements. Added ability to load FITS files with .fts extensions. TIFF loading fixes. Further TGA fixes for large files. Assets improvements and fixes. Fixed crash exporting LUTs. Fixed some icons being very small. Fixed incorrect/missing cursor issues. Fixed crash loading large TGA files. Fixed bug when erasing from a panorama source mask. Fixed CR3 bugs. Fixed monochromatic iconography option not working. Fixed alignment issues with pixel tool. Fixed marquee selection issues on Apple Silicon devices. Fixed loading of 16bit LAB TIFF. Fixed assorted live filter issues. Fixed PDF passthrough failing to work on multi-page documents. Fixed live stack with live perspective issues when the source images have differing orientations. New samples. Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes. Help and Localisation improvements. Changes and fixes in 1.9 made since 1.8 (including the new 1.9 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Photo macOS update announcement The 1.9 new features are explained by our team in this video UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Photo > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac app store purchases and needs a product key).

A few days ago, I updated Affinity Publisher to version 1.9.0.932. After updating, I realized that (2) out of (6) documents with tables are no longer recognized by the software as containing tables. These are document which I need to update every few weeks and need to add rows to the tables with each update. I am now unable to add additional rows to the tables. The other (4) documents when opened, in the new version, still retain the tables. Can anyone give me some insight? I REALLY need these docs and need to be able to add rows. Thank you.

As a very recent purchaser of an iPad and the Affinity iPad apps, reading this thread has left me a little confused! I have installed the latest version of Designer from the App Store; the splash screen shows it as being version 1.9.0, but the "Preferences/Settings" screen shows it to be 1.9.3. Which is "correct"? (Screenshot below). TIA. Jeff

Ever since the new update, my pixel tool pen and drawing messes up frequently and is very slow even if the document size is small. My friend is also having similar bugs with crashing ever since the new 1.9.0 update came out. Anyone know what's going on?

Hi, I have two of my three desktop Affinity apps purchased through the App Store and noticed the new version 1.9 updates had come out. Until now, updating wasn't a problem but this time around I keep getting the alert 'The iTunes Store is unable to process purchases at this time. Please try again later' when I press the 'update' buttons for both apps. I've had the problem since Saturday and still no change. I've tried hard connecting my Mac to my router and loging out of the App Store, all of which made no difference. Any ideas what might be the problem? The App Store status (https://www.apple.com/uk/support/systemstatus/) is showing its fine, when I check on the Apple.com website and I'm able to get into my iTunes account and see all the App Store Features, and payment details, so it has a connection, just can't update the Affinity apps. I'm running MacOS 10.10 which I thought might be the problem but from the App Store info pages, for your app, it says the OS is supported so I'm a bit stumped why I'm having issues. A live chat to Apple Support seems to have not helped either. They've just walked me through generic troubleshooting for checking I have a connection and other unrelated issues that relate to iOS and not MacOS apps. Please can you help as it's so annoying that such a simple issues is stopping me from downloading your fantastic apps. Thanks in advance for your help. Alec

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.0 Changes in this build A highlights explanation can be found here: 5 things you should know about Affinity Publisher 1.9 The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.9.0 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.8.6 are as follows: New Features Data Merge (learn more) Support PDF Passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed Package feature to collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder (learn more) Studio Presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations (also learn more) Content sync of store purchases (requires Sierra or above and registration) This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Flattened bitmap representation used for all PSD files Path text improvements (learn more) Initial text baseline advance (learn more) Configurable bleed and margin guide colours (learn more) OpenAsset support for drag/drop from browser content PDF bookmarks (learn more) Convert pixel layer to image node (learn more) Divide blend mode Fixes & Improvements: General Artboard conversion to spreads now optional Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100% (learn more) Pages panel loses the scroll position when switching between document tabs Document Merge - Added option to ignore unused incoming text styles Print Dialog with Book or Booklet Document Layout showing could lead to instability (mac) Fix for PDF export on an M1 Mac causing issues Document profile PDX Export preflight tweak, falls back to CMYK profile for RGB / LAB documents Opening a template from File > Open or Drag and drop will now open it as untitled Filter Effect Dialog - Enabled the use of global colours Performance improvements Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements Page/Spread Resizing single page Master could change the size of dependent spreads incorrectly Deleting Master Page when editing detached could leave 'Editing Detached' notification open Fixed issue where re-applying master pages with text frames with pinned objects could cause document instability When modifying Adjustment Layers any bleed and pasteboard areas affected were not updating correctly Pinned objects from Master Pages were not showing in bleed Resizing a single page master could cause spreads that used it to be resized incorrectly Guides lost from Master Page when changing from facing to single pages Added option to 'Add Pages (from file) at end of document' Added option in Add Pages From File to 'Add Before / After / Replacing Section' Text Text selection highlight across multiple spreads could display incorrectly Hyperlink styling could accidentally be added to new text More consistent handling of mid-word punctuation Deleting a row with merged cells could cause a crash Text wrap settings on images could become distorted after a document save and load Fix for hang resizing table columns in certain circumstances Line widths around Drop Caps could be wrong /inconsistent Glyph Browser was missing glyphs under certain circumstances when sorting via Unicode Prevent application of Hyperlink Anchors to Layers / Master Page instances Prevent creation of blank Hyperlink Anchors that could case errors on PDF Export Multi-curve text wrap could be combined incorrectly resulting in unexpected wrapping around complex shapes Bookmarks created by TOC not in the correct order when exported to PDF Style changes not always picked up as out of date for TOC TOC Anchors were not being deleted when the TOC was deleted Fixed generation of wrap shapes for certain images with alpha Import IDML Import - text import now always applies appropriate text styling to be used when appending to imported text IDML import - Speed and efficiency improvements PDF import - Filter Effects could be wrongly rasterised and cause export failures PDF import - placed PDF improvements PDF import - fix for tiling patterns SVG Import - stability improvement Resources Many Resource Manager fixes and improvements Artboard and other settings could be lost when reconnecting missing Affinity resources Place linked files could be opened as <Embedded> under certain circumstances 'Size frame to content' for images imported from IDML could behave incorrectly Picture frame within a Picture Frame could cause crash Export Export Pages field now clears when switching documents PDF Export - panel truncated 'Advanced Features' check box (mac) PDF Export - Improved export of Type 1 fonts, which could cause failure under certain circumstances TGA Export - Fix for 32bit export UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Publisher > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.0 Changes in this build A highlights explanation can be found here: 5 things you should know about Affinity Publisher 1.9 The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.9.0 over the release build Affinity Publisher for Windows 1.8.5 are as follows: New Features Data Merge (learn more) Support PDF Passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed Package feature to collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder (learn more) Studio Presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations (also learn more) Content sync of store purchases (requires registration) This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card) Flattened bitmap representation used for all PSD files Path text improvements (learn more) Initial text baseline advance (learn more) Configurable bleed and margin guide colours (learn more) OpenAsset support for drag/drop from browser content PDF bookmarks (learn more) Convert pixel layer to image node (learn more) Divide blend mode Fixes & Improvements: General Artboard conversion to spreads now optional Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100% Pages panel loses the scroll position when switching between document tabs Document Merge - Added option to ignore unused incoming text styles Document profile PDX Export preflight tweak, falls back to CMYK profile for RGB / LAB documents Opening a template from File > Open or Drag and drop will now open it as untitled Filter Effect Dialog - Enabled the use of global colours When creating a global colour from an object also apply it Fixes various issues with mishandling of CJK fonts in the UI (Win) Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements Performance improvements Page/Spread Resizing single page Master could change the size of dependent spreads incorrectly Deleting Master Page when editing detached could leave 'Editing Detached' notification open Fixed issue where re-applying master pages with text frames with pinned objects could cause document instability When modifying Adjustment Layers any bleed and pasteboard areas affected were not updating correctly Pinned objects from Master Pages were not showing in bleed Resizing a single page master could cause spreads that used it to be resized incorrectly Guides lost from Master Page when changing from facing to single pages Fixes for margins setup on a Master Page (Win) Added option to 'Add Pages (from file) at end of document' Added option in Add Pages From File to 'Add Before / After / Replacing Section' Text Text selection highlight across multiple spreads could display incorrectly Hyperlink styling could accidentally be added to new text More consistent handling of mid-word punctuation Deleting a row with merged cells could cause a crash Text wrap settings on images could become distorted after a document save and load Fix for hang resizing table columns in certain circumstances Line widths around Drop Caps could be wrong /inconsistent Glyph Browser was missing glyphs under certain circumstances when sorting via Unicode Prevent application of Hyperlink Anchors to Layers / Master Page instances Prevent creation of blank Hyperlink Anchors that could case errors on PDF Export Multi-curve text wrap could be combined incorrectly resulting in unexpected wrapping around complex shapes Bookmarks created by TOC not in the correct order when exported to PDF Auto correct quotation marks for French Style changes not always picked up as out of date for TOC TOC Anchors were not being deleted when the TOC was deleted Fixed generation of wrap shapes for certain images with alpha Import IDML Import - text import now always applies appropriate text styling to be used when appending to imported text IDML import - Speed and efficiency improvements PDF import - Filter Effects could be wrongly rasterised and cause export failures PDF import - placed PDF improvements PDF import - fix for tiling patterns SVG Import - stability improvement Resources Many Resource Manager fixes and improvements Artboard and other settings could be lost when reconnecting missing Affinity resources Place linked files could be opened as <Embedded> under certain circumstances 'Size frame to content' for images imported from IDML could behave incorrectly Picture frame within a Picture Frame could cause crash Export Export Pages field now clears when switching documents PDF Export - Improved export of Type 1 fonts, which could cause failure under certain circumstances TGA Export - Fix for 32bit export RTF export / copy paste was losing hyphens under certain circumstances UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key). If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.0 Changes in this build A highlights explanation can be found here: 5 things you should know about Affinity Photo 1.9 The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.9.0 (made since the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.5) are as follows: New Features: Live liquify layers (learn more) Linked layers (learn more) Pattern layers (learn more) Stacking for astrophotography (see tutorials here) Divide blend mode (learn more) Path text added (learn more) Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card) (learn more) Studio Presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations (also learn more) Create brushes from current pixel selection (learn more) Linked images and Resource Manager (learn more) Use filters on masks Edit spare channels as layers Added per-layer antialiasing controls in the advanced blending menu Added export preview panel (for raster types) Support PDF passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed Benchmarking option to measure speed of your device Content sync of store purchases (requires registration) This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixes & Improvements: Improved “Serif Labs” RAW engine including native CR3 support Elliptical marquee automatically creates from centre Hierarchical view (learn more) Configurable bleed and margin guide colours Import multiple LUTS (learn more) Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100% Snap to pixel selection bounds Added curves adjustment to the tone mapping persona Added JPEG-XR 101010 import support (useful for screen captures from Xbox, etc.) Added support for 12bit grayscale TIFF files Added “Duplicate spare channel” to right click menu Blend modes now work on “alpha only” layers (masks, adjustments, live filters, etc.) Gradient map adjustments now support global colours Filter effects now work properly with global colours The Curves adjustment now has numeric field controls for precise positioning Unable to use CMYK/LAB/GREY equations in a Live Procedural Texture More filters now work on masks / adjustments / spare channels (Add Noise, Perlin Noise, etc.) LUT adjustments can be exported directly from the adjustments panel, and batch imported from files Added Canvas Rotation option to Preferences Fixed Changing between RGB and CMYK sliders in Colour Chooser panel gives incorrect values Fixed Moving a mask from a layer to the live stack group crashes the app Unable to open .heic if there is a special character in the file path Original file name no longer saved as "Title" in PDF, after renaming the file TIFF file handling improvements Fixed Tools getting stuck in the hand tool cursor after using spacebar + alt and click to zoom out Hue shift slider background should not move with the slider Creating or adding pixel selections from other layers to a selection also selects the respective layers Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo). If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key). If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.9.0 Changes in this build A highlights explanation can be found here: 5 things you should know about Affinity Designer 1.9 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.9.0 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.8.6 are as follows: New Features: Powerful contour tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves (learn more) Select Same to efficiently match attributes such as fill colour, stroke colour, stroke weight, transparency, blend mode or shape type (learn more) Select Object to select all objects of a certain type within your document to make editing even easier (learn more) Studio presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations (also learn more) Linked images and Resource Manager (learn more) Added Divide layer blend mode PDF passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed Save As Package feature to collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder (learn more) Configurable margin guide colours Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100% (learn more) Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Blend Ranges dialog in the Layers Panel Curves numeric field controls Blend modes for mask layers Create brushes from current pixel selection (learn more) Added export preview panel (for raster types) - updates live whenever you change an export dialog parameter Content sync of store purchases (requires Sierra or above and registration) This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Fixes & Improvements: Snap to pixel selection bounds Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path Elliptical marquee automatically creates from centre Numerous drawing issues resolved Fix for paste-style leaving objects with misbehaving lines Double-clicking the View Tool's tool icon should zoom to fit Improved performance of OpenType features Added JPEG-XR 101010 import support (useful for screen captures from Xbox, etc.) Fix a number of potential symbol-related problems Text improvements - particularly relating to mid-word punctuation Snapping tweaks - you can now snap to column guides if they're hidden and you have 'Only snap to visible objects' disabled Fixed insertion target button failure! Fixed font combo not previewing changes in the document correctly Fix for PDF export on an M1 Mac causing issues PDF export improvements - particularly around filter effects PDF import improvement with mask images PDF Import improvements around tinted colours and unknown fonts New samples Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) Fixed sporadic crash with Pencil Tool and hopefully generally improved product stability Fix for artefacts occasionally noticed in the noise pattern while editing objects with noise on a linear fill Misc Big Sur fixes. Fix for rendering problems affecting cropped items with layer effects applied Added ability to rotate canvas if you have a scroll wheel mouse (or two-finger vertical drag on your touchpad) if you hold down Command. This will rotate around the mouse cursor location. Holding down Shift in addition to Command while scrolling will rotate around the centre of the view. This shortcut can also be disabled in Preferences > Tools Improved performance with large document Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvements UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in application menu, Affinity Designer > About). If you’ve purchased from the Mac App Store— updates are done automatically next time you run your software after it is available in the Mac App Store. If this does not happen for you, open the Mac App Store app and go to the Updates page and then Store > Reload page or press CMD+R. This should hopefully force the update to show. Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world which can mean it may take up to 72 hours for your update to be available. If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the software it will check for updates and offer to download and install any available update, or in the application main menu there is an option Check for Updates. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Designer for macOS) can be downloaded from this link (that installer is NOT for Mac App Store purchases and needs a product key).

Good moring. Since version 1.9 I cannot export to .jpg formats anymore. Does anybody have the same experience?

Hi from Austria I have the same problem with the focus merge function since updating to 1.9, like Freixas and Hank Schoch --> forum.affinity - All focus stacks are the same: the bottom fourth of the screen is black. Will our problem be solved soon? When? I bought the app on 08.08.2020 and I use Windows 10 Thanks a lot. Jolanta P.

Someone recently sent me an .Ai file and after downloading it and opening it in Affinity Designer, I was met with a blank page. No layers are listed either. I had the person resend it and they said the file is fine on their end and the new file they sent also showed a blank screen. I'm using the most up to date version of affinity designer. Does anyone know why this is?

I updated Affinity Photo (1.9.0) on my Mac yesterday (High Sierra--which is the last version I could install on my 2009 Mac). Mac said the update was successful. Now I get no popups at all. Can I reinstall an earlier version of Affinity Photo? Any help would be appreciated.

'Export' from Photo - png and gifs are fine, but jpgs only want to 'save as' affinity files. Same problem with Designer.

Hi! I'm encountering a crash in Designer during the update process from 1.86 to 1.9 - the programme successfully finds the update on launch, downloads the data but then crashes during extraction. I've had a search of the forum but can't see anything similar; I've updated Photo and Publisher to 1.9 successfully but Designer won't play ball! Please could you advise - is there any further info I can provide to help? I've attached the crash report as text doc - not sure if that's helpful? Many thanks, Andy. Affinity Designer Crash Report.rtf

We are pleased to announce an update for the iPad release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.0 Changes in this build The changes in Affinity Photo for iPad 1.9.0 (over the last release Affinity Photo 1.8.6) are as follows: New Features: Live liquify layers Linked layers Pattern layers Edit spare channels as layers Stacking improvements for astrophotography Divide blend mode Path text capabilities and improvements External display support with separate configuration options Content sync of store purchases (requires registration) This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps Blend modes for mask layers Use filters on masks Create brushes from current pixel selection Curves numeric field controls Added export preview (for raster types) Benchmarking option to measure speed of your device Fixes & Improvements: RAW improvements such as the addition of choosing the SerifLabs RAW engine and support for the latest cameras Snap to pixel selection bounds Elliptical marquee will automatically create from centre Fixed the inability to load .cube LUT from Files and iCloud Various stability improvements Help and Localisation improvement UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers) The software version can be seen on the corner of preferences screen. Your Affinity iPad apps should update automatically next time you run them. However, you do need to be logged in with the same Apple ID you used to buy them. If the automatic update does not happen for you, go to the iPad App Store app and go to Updates. Once you’re there, tap near the top of the screen where it states 'Updates' and then hold, pull down and then release. This should manually refresh the updates page. However, don’t contact us if the updates are not available for you yet—Apple sometimes phase roll outs around the world and this can take up to 24 hours.

On a Mac, when I update from 1.8.6 to 1.9 will my additional (i.e., beyond the defaults) Macros, Brushes and Styles automatically transfer over or will I have to reinstall them all?