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In the Index section of Affinity publisher I am trying to add a separator between the index item and the page number. Currently I am unable to add the "Right indent Tab" separator, when I click on it nothing happens. As a side note I am able to add the other separators. Does anyone know if this is a bug or have a suggestion as to how to solve this issue? The only other thing I can think of is to manually add Right Indent tabs to each Index item, but that would take a long time. Thank you Kindly.

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.10.1 The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.10.1 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.10.0 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Converting text with emojis, underlined text, or text with other attributes to curves would cause the app to crash. Application failed to launch due to downloaded My Account content that contains missing fonts. Fixed a crash that could occur when closing the application. Certain fonts failed to load/be found when language is set to some languages such as Chinese/Japanese respectively. Font Style names do not show when app language is set to some languages such as Chinese or Japanese. Trials have been reset, so anyone who has tried the 10 day trail before can start a new trial. Fixed a crash with global list numbering and composing text. Fixed a crash opening some files containing linked text frames. Fixed a crash selecting pins. Unsplash removed from the stock panel Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Publisher macOS update announcement 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).

Opening the file linked to this post will crash Affinity Photo immediately on macOS 12.0 Beta (21A5506j) on a MacBook Air M1 2020, using Affinity Photo 1.10.1 File shasum: 1a506a716bc4616d3df068ed2348ca7ed6b4c4f2 IMG_2453.heic

Hi, The save dialog box default to the last folder you saved a file to instead of the last folder you saved a file to OR the folder of the last opened file. This may seem a minor issue but it causes a lot of mistakes. Is there any chances you’ll fix this quickly ? Pretty please ?

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.0 The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.10.0 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.3 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Improved GPU rendering Improved Serif Labs RAW engine Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages Improved Lens Correction for Canon, Tamron and Sigma lenses Improved PDF import/export Astrophotography Edit stacked image names for better organisation Stack images for different filters simultaneously using file groups (auto-alignment avoids resampling) Open FITS files directly in Photo Persona (control over demosaicing) Support for FUJIFILM X-Trans sensor images Improved performance with: Panorama stitching Defringing and increased maximum radius Multiple placed Info page samplers Adjustment layers when hardware acceleration is disabled Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow) Placed images Embedded documents Low-memory situations Converting documents between ICC profiles / pixel formats Documents which contain flattened, opaque layers (usually the result of merge visible) Raw CR3 support (for Canon EOS 850D) Median Blur mode for Frequency Separation filter Added hardware acceleration to Gradient Map adjustment Added GPU acceleration for blend ranges Fixed crop tool issue where all presets were landscape Added support for most emoji Added ability to Load ACM lens profiles Added additional file drag drop options when holding Option key Resource Manager: New Relink option for missing resources New File Type column EPS files can be linked Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes. Help and localisation improvement.. 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).

In the first picture I clicked on "Select" -> "Feather..." but it seems the selection is instead smoothed. If I try "Select" -> "Smooth..." I obtain the same result. On the other hand, if I go into "Refine", changing the "Feather" slides has the effect that I was looking for (see second picture). Is this something intended to work this way and I'm doing something wrong or is it a bug? I'm on macOS 11.4 and I'm using Affinity Photo 1.10.0 Thank you, Giacomo

Hey so I'm pretty new to this software since I switched from Adobe. But knowing how well this software claims to sell on its latest update, I was and still am having problem with logging in to Affinity account in desktop version. It's either stating that the server is having a problem with some 0x000000001 code or it will pop a loading window but ended up stuck in a loop forever, be it in Designer or Publisher, having me resorting to Force Quit. I have some urgent tasks to be completed and all I have to focus on right now is to adapt to the software. Hope there's a way out on this.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.10.1 The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.10.1 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.10.0 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Converting text with emojis, underlined text, or text with other attributes to curves would cause the app to crash. Application failed to launch due to downloaded My Account content that contains missing fonts. Certain fonts failed to load/be found when language is set to some languages such as Chinese/Japanese respectively. Font Style names do not show when app language is set to some languages such as Chinese or Japanese. Trials have been reset, so anyone who has tried the 10 day trail before can start a new trial. Unsplash removed from the stock panel Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Photo macOS update announcement 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).

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Designer, to version 1.10.1 The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for MacOS 1.10.1 over the release build Affinity Designer for macOS 1.10.0 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Converting text with emojis, underlined text, or text with other attributes to curves would cause the app to crash. Application failed to launch due to downloaded My Account content that contains missing fonts. Certain fonts failed to load/be found when language is set to some languages such as Chinese/Japanese respectively. Font Style names do not show when app language is set to some languages such as Chinese or Japanese. Trials have been reset, so anyone who has tried the 10 day trail before can start a new trial. Unsplash removed from the stock panel Help & localisation improvements. The improvements in 1.10 are listed in some detail in this 1.10.0 Designer macOS update announcement 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).

I have a file that many music symbols that come from the Bravura font (Google it if need be, it's free under SIL). I put some symbols together in that font. Press "Convert to curves" and Designer crashes. Has happened now, 6 times in a row. Crash log below. Using 1.10 Robby Designer Crash Aug 9 2021.rtf

Hej! I have small issue with spell checker on MacOS — it looks strange when it knows some words, but the most of them not. Like there's a lack of dictionary. Where can I check and fix the issue?

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.10.0 Changes in this build The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.10.0 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.9.3 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Improved performance with: Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow) Editing speed with long stories Placed images Embedded documents Low-memory conditions Placed PDFs set to Passthrough Documents containing placed documents (Resource Manager) Smaller PDF export file sizes when multiple copies of the same passthrough PDFs are present. Better output of placed PDFs set to Passthrough exported as PDF formats that do not support Passthrough. Added support for most emoji Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages. Implemented OpenType character variant samples and parameter names. Import keyboard shortcuts from IDML files. Resource Manager: New Relink option for missing resources. New File Type column. EPS files can be linked. Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes. Help and localisation improvement. 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).

Thank you for the update. But unfortunately the Mac App Store does not show me the update yet. The only option is to download the new version. Is this the approved method? Thanks Ashok

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.2 The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.9.2 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.1 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Assorted performance improvements for assets. Assorted content download improvements and fixes. Added ability to optionally sort brushes by name. Improved performance of export and merge visible, especially in documents with Live Filters. Fixed a crash when using File -> Share after File -> Export. Fixed a bug where some Live Filters would appear to move after save / load. Fixed a crash when opening a brush category context menu with no selection. Fixed a bug which caused adjustment to fail to apply easily when clicking with a stylus. Fixed potential deadlock issue when loading large files. Fixed assorted small registration page issues. Fixed the size of the “General” section in preferences. Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Fixed inability to add / rename / delete export presets. Fixed issue where UI would remain hidden when a studio page was enabled from the menu. Added ability to organise LUT adjustment presets, including support for multiple categories and import / export as “.afluts” files. Added ability to drag / drop all adjustment presets to reorder them. Added support for OpenType reverse chaining contextual single substitutions. Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.). Typography panel performance improvements. Minor improvements to Gaussian Blur performance when GPU is enabled. Assorted visual fixes in the adjustments panel. Further fixes for deadlocks with multiple GPUs. Restored ability to plug an eGPU in while the app is running. Enforce ISO country code character limit. Fixed crashes with malformed ICC profiles. Improved the reliability of panorama stitching. Fixed bugs which were preventing Unsplash stock page items from working. Improved PSD import from recent versions of PS. Output levels (in the levels adjustment layer) are now correctly exported to / imported from PSD. Fixed missing EXIF data for EOS 300D RAW. Fixed a HEIC crash. Localisation improvements. 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 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).

I just updated Affinity Photo and Publisher, but cannot bridge between the two. Message comes up to link them via StudioLink, but the Photo keeps messaging that update is required even after I did update.

Can anyone help. I have used the Windows version of all the Affinity products for a number of years. I am moving to the Mac system but have a problem with using existing PC created files. All images are pixelated when opened on the Mac but still look okay on the PC. I use OneDrive with the Affinity Projects stored on each system which are synced , so its not a cloud problem. My pre Mac process was that I designed my work using two different PC's using the same OneDrive synch process and did not have a problem with files or images even though OneDrive had different paths. What am I doing wrong on my new Mac. Can anyone help me.

We are pleased to announce an update for the MacOS release of Affinity Photo, version 1.9.3 The detailed changes in Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.9.3 over the release build Affinity Photo for macOS 1.9.2 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: Resource Manager - memory leak fixed Fixed a performance regression Memory leak fixes in the Layer panel Help and Localisation improvements The new features in 1.9 are listed in some detail in this 1.9.0 Photo macOS update announcement 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).

I'm trying to creating an infinitely zooming picture that zooms in on the mean mugging baby's eye. I plan to write some code that zoom's in on the baby's eye, and once the zoom get's to a certain point, I will place the original picture overtop of the picture in the eye. To do this I have to make sure the original picture, and the picture in the eye have the same background, so I'm creating a rectangle with the right proportions around the baby, and then trying to scale it down until I can select it and copy the content that would be around the baby inside the eye, but when I scale down that low, the proportions can't scale down accurately enough because they must scale at even numbers for pixels (no decimals), when I scale back up, the rectangle doesn't fit properly. The video attached shows what I'm trying to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------ When I try to increase the size of the image past 45000 pixels, my computer freezes up. Is there anything I can adjust to fix this? These are the details of my computer Affinity Photo v. 1.9.3 Mac Mini 2018 Mac OS Big Sur v. 11.4 Processor: 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i3 Memory: 20 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 mean-muggin-baby.mp4

Every time I try to create a new document, Affinity Designer freezes. I had this same issue with the free trial and thought it would go away when v1.9 came out so I went ahead and purchased the app. The free trial worked fine with Photo and Publisher so I'm not sure what's up with Designer. If I knew this program was such hell I would have just stayed with Adobe. Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm really annoyed about this.

I've contacted Serif Support over this. Doesn't matter - Designer or Photo - Exact same problem. It's been posted elsewhere. Someone suggested that to get eyes on it, post a new topic. So, I am. Support told me that it was a naming problem. That underscores in the File names could cause the problem. I added that NO OTHER PROGRAM I'M using has this problem, ONLY Affinity Programs. So, the problem has resurfaced. To be clear, it was working fine with underscores. Then it STOPPED. And now it's ALL I get. So, to be fair to the suggestion, I renamed the file in a location with NO underscores: You might notice, NO underscores up above. Failure to load - permissions problem. It loads fine in other applications. Again, JUST Affinity applications give me this headache. If it's underscores at all, one might think they wouldn't save or load with underscores, but, they HAVE. So, I'm not sure that's the problem. If it's a MacOS problem, why would it not matter on ANY other program EXCEPT Affinity? Odd, ya think?

We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher, version 1.9.2 Changes in this build The detailed changes in Affinity Publisher for MacOS 1.9.2 over the release build Affinity Publisher for macOS 1.9.1 are as follows: Fixes & Improvements: General Fixed Stock Panel retrieval for Unsplash Fix for Replace Image moving Picture Frame content unnecessarily Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.) Open PDF swaps top and bottom bleeds Failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized Artboards or Groups Fixed crash when placing assets containing Artboards Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document Transform panel ignores ruler origin in line mode Asset Pack list sorting improved. Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads. Data Merge Manager could crash on 'Generate' under certain circumstances Several stability improvements in response to issues with specific documents Create palette from document was only using the current spread Fixed possible crash reparenting anchors in the Anchor Panel. Bleed was not honoured for placed Artboards Scaling issues with placed Artboards Tool not updated correctly when Zooming (Win) Added F15 / F16 shortcuts for Tablet Zoom (Win) Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time) (Win) Performance improvements when Preflight panel showing lots of errors / warnings (Win) Fixed crash when embedding a document listed as missing content in the Resource Manager (Win) Fixed crash when attempting to open a file with links to images containing disallowed path characters (from e.g. macOS) (Mac) Fixed gradient transparency not working with images on M1 (Mac) Showing a studio page should unhide the application UI (Mac) Fixes issues with numeric entry fields in some non-English locales. Document /Spread Document size presets create incorrectly sized pages if the Document DPI doesn't match the preset DPI Business card templates shouldn't be facing page Guides added via Guides Manager are now clamped to Spread size Master Page Guides could be applied incorrectly when a Master is applied to only one page of a facing page Spread Fixed Bleed inconsistency that could occur when 'Adding Pages from File...' (Mac) New Document Templates are now alphabetically ordered (Mac) Fixed bleed / margin colour tooltips Text Grouped Text in Assets could change scale when placed Added Preferences option to normalise text breaks on copy to clipboard Unwanted auto-correct capitalisation caused by exclamation and question marks Inline text objects should not have Text Wrap options enabled Text Style Editor > Next level should use "[Same Style]" rather than "[No Style]" Active text Selection on pasteboard not always drawn correctly Decrement paragraph level would sometimes find the wrong previous style Fixed potential hang moving pinned nodes If spaces are overset, squeeze them up to keep the caret within the frame Performance improvements generating text wrap shapes in complex cases Table Format Panel previews always rendered as RGB Hyperlinks to Anchors can point to incorrect Anchors if Anchor name has been duplicated Paragraph Decoration has no "inherit state" when used as "based on" style Alignment context toolbar options for table cells don't work Implemented OpenType Reverse Chaining Contextual Single Substitutions (e.g. Iosevka Font) Fixed crash when a custom wrap shape outline has been converted to text Pinned nodes could be wrongly moved into overflow Redraw issue resizing Table with insets RTF Import: Paragraph style from footnote destination was leaking into main text Typography Panel fails to display certain properties Improvements when copying text as Unicode. Also renamed 'Normalize Breaks' to 'Preserve Unicode Breaks' in Preferences (Mac) Font Size drop menu now sends updates when keys are used as well as mouse (Mac) Hyperlinks containing spaces at the end of the URL broken (Mac) Hyperlink button can be incorrect disabled (Mac) Anchor dialog doesn't display correctly on older macOS (Mac) Edit Text Style dialog list truncated on Big Sur (Win) Not enough space to show Text Style shortcut on Windows Import / Export / Resources Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images Improved Brush and Asset categories alphabetical sort options Fixed crash choosing Add Pages from File with 'After Last Page' selected Replacing a scaled Picture Frame image wasn't maintaining placement Convert to Picture Frame does not use default saved settings, cf Convert to Text Frame Renaming then re-linking a cropped PDF or AF document scales the un-cropped document Missing Content Status for placed PDFs Placed PDF Page Box / Maximum Content calculated incorrectly Add Pages from File could handle z-order badly when moving page content Renamed Export Area 'With background' option to avoid confusion. Fixed other Export UI inconsistencies Linked Documents (EPS, SVG, AF) sometimes displayed the PDF Passthrough options Fixed crash when replacing Image Resource with Raw Fixed issue replacing Picture Frame images for Master Page Frames (mac) Prevent overwriting a Package on document close (mac) Fix for Export More > Preset menu being disabled 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 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).

A MacOS Automator service plugin/workflow, programmed by yours truly: “Activate All Affinity Studio Panels” FAQ: What does it do? It contains a nifty AppleScript code that goes through the menu View > Studio, checks for all panels without a ✓ check mark and activates them all at their respective last position (if any). That's all. Why does it do that? Because otherwise you'd have to repeatedly open the menu and the submenu again and again, activate each panel one by one. Which is – pardon my French – a major p.i.t.a. As in, literally, a pain in the arm. Been there done that. How do I use it? Upon installation in ~/Library/Services (see included ReadMe) or in /Library/Services if you want to activate it for all users, you can run it from the Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher menu > Services > Activate All Affinity Studio Panels. You can assign a custom keyboard shortcut via System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services. Heck, you can even disable it from there if it annoys you. (But why should it? Hey, it's a Good Thing™!) It will only do its Good Thing™ while one of your Affinity apps is running frontmost. Should you accidentally launch it while using another app, it will only inform you that it can't do anything. Can it do any harm? I don't think so. But if you're paranoid, open the *.workflow document with the Automator app and see for yourself. It's open source. What does it cost? It's free as in beer. That is… feel free to contact me if you'd like to buy me a beer. I won't say no! Where can I get it? loukash.com/download What's there? You'll be able to download a file named "Activate_All_Affinity_Studio_Panels_v1.0.zip". Inside the ZIP archive, there are two files: • Activate All Affinity Studio Panels ReadMe.pdf – which you should read, obviously… • Activate All Affinity Studio Panels.workflow That's all. My website runs on Wordpress, so it will automatically attempt to set a few cookies. Feel free to reject them. Enjoy!

Hi AP Team Don't know if it's truly a bug, to me this path of reporting made most sense. If I chose wrong, please apologise. Hi Affinity Photo team Hardware: MBA, 8 Core, 16 GB, 1 TB SSD Detected by coincidence: No problem, even super fast, are huge 360º panoramas using Live Projection, 27000 x 13500 = 364.5 megapixel Huge problems on same machine with Tone Map of a smaller 240 megapixel ARQ file, from a Sony 7RM4, 16 images pixel shift multi shot, first stitched to ARQ with Sonys Image Edge Desktop, then the ARQ loaded to Affinity Photo, developed by APs raw engine, copy by Cmd+J, then tried to apply Tone Map, what ended in Force Quit of AP after 30 minutes. Checking the Activity Monitor on the M1 during load into Tone Map Persona, there is a huge increase of system activity (the red dots) in the CPU history (press Cmd+3...) but almost none in GPU (...and Cmd+4 in Activity Monitor) history. The video begins with something completely different, concerning lens and chromatic aberration on Develop Persona. If you want the ARQ (2 GB) for analysis, please send a upload link. Have a nice weekend, Roland

Hey all, When I am using Affinity Designer and trying to draw there is a significant lag. Basically the tokes drag behind the cursor which makes it impossible to draw. My laptop: MacBook Pro 16, 2.3 8-Core Intel i9, 32GB DDR4, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB MacOS: 11.2.3 AD 1.9.3 Any ideas ? Cheers

1.9.3 on macOS 10.9