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I am using Affinity Designer 1.4.2 on Mac/El Capitan and have several design files on Dropbox. Having to work on a logo for the office, I installed the Windows Beta on my Dell/Win8 at work and edited one of the files on Dopbox. Then I had 2 issues: 1. Export to .eps left me with a file with a less then VGA resolution. Shame, but since I should be able to export from the Mac I can live with that, the Windows version still being beta 2. Exporting from Mac is a no-go however because, and this is serious, the now edited file which is saved from the Windows PC can not be opened by the Mac version anymore! File failed to open: The file version is not supported by this version of Affinity. What can be wrong? Are the two versions not yet compatible? If so, when will they be? If not, how to solve this?

Affinity stopped working. it was working fine a day and the am getting this following error: An unhandled expectation has occured. code 0x80004003 system specification: windows 10 Intel i3 processor 6gb memory abt 50gb free space on installed drive Tried re installing and repair too.... still not working... Kindly help! Thanks

Well, I was doing a project in AD , and suddenly , out of nowhere AD closed alone and missing (deleted) the project I was working on, anyone else had this problem?

Hello, Am trying out affinity designer in windows and would like to know if its possible to have/select mulitple layers to export as one single slice (from export persona)? Thanks.

I was excited to learn of the availability of Affinity Designer for Windows Public Beta. I downloaded it and installed it. The system here is Windows 7 Professional X64. I was concerned when during installation the installer told me that it would be best to have am Aero theme in place. I do not use an Aero theme, and do not care to. So I ignored the message and continued with the installation. When I tried to start the application, I found that the matter of the Aero theme was more than a suggestion. When the program found that the theme in place was not an Aero series theme, it gave me an error message and the program would not proceed to start. I find this a worrisome requirement. There are many implications in my operations of the choice of theme, and I do not really want to change to an Aero theme "just" so I can run Affinity Designer. What's the story here? Thanks. Best regards, Doug Kerr

Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: None Download: Here As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.5 cannot be opened in 1.4, which means files created with the Windows beta cannot be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer, instead you will need the latest Mac beta. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed crash when starting if there is a beta update / the beta has expired / a requirement isn't met Fixed Grid and Snapping Axis Mode should be changed to Grid type Fixed Ctrl+Shift+Tab to cycle backwards through documents Fixed Ctrl+Numpad number Fixed trying to add non-breaking space bringing up menu Fixed pressing delete with a stop selected on the Gradient Flyout deleting the object Fixed Brush Editor Brush Size not going past 1025px Fixed translated strings with escape sequences Fixed Channel Mixer using incorrect spelling of Grey Fixed Export Persona missing view navigation shortcuts Fixed studio crash when removing all pages Fixed Export Persona not being clear where text can be entered for user variables Fixed Export overwrite dialog having a low quality warning icon Fixed Export conflict overwrite dialog result being ignored Fixed Space Horizontally/Vertically distributing incorrectly Fixed printing multiple copies printing too many copies Fixed Export not reporting failure messages Fixed certain font names not being reported properly Fixed crash after attempting to save a modified sample Fixed DNG files looking pixellated Fixed constraining with snap to pixel Fixed Duplicate being enabled / disabled incorrectly Fixed crash when launching Designer a second time Fixed creating a symbol from a symbol Fixed being unable to click select with touch or pen Known Issues The .NET installer can fail during the installation, try rebooting your computer as Windows Updates are pending On Windows 7, the view can flicker when resizing the window

Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: None Download: Here (Temporarily removed build, new version arriving shortly, please bear with us) We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed customised tools toolbar not being remembered on app run up Fixed tools panel not saving the last used flyout Fixed tools panel 'Reset' resetting the columns as opposed to the actual toolbar Fixed crash when a new version is available and the tools panel is floating Fixed transform panel tabbing order Fixed grid colours not being remembered Fixed crash double clicking swatches Fixed Character and Paragraph tabs open with sections collapsed Fixed pressing Tab to hide studio failing to properly hide a panel docked to the left Fixed snapping curves when extending a curve with PenTool Fixed PDF import to use MediaBox instead of CropBox for page size Fixed PDF import to use multiple pages laid out in a 2D grid rather than a straight line Fixed PDF export when the colour format of the PDF is set by a rasterised area that does not contain bitmaps (it should default to the export format in this case) Fixed PDF export applying alpha transparency twice to rasterised areas Assets can be dropped with constraints active onto whichever artboard contained the mouse at the time (rather than the first artboard) Fixed swatch appearance setting not being remembered after closing app Fixed Asset list mode setting not being remembered Fixed fault in swatch palette appearance with large/medium icons Fixed Grid and Axis Manager Advanced setting not being remembered Fixed no highlight when tabbing on non-input fields Fixed outline view mode button having an incorrect tooltip Fixed clicking View Point in the dropdown list not loading when only 1 View Point exists Fixed being unable to zoom in with Ctrl and + on German keyboard Fixed being unable to open Windows Assets on Mac and vice versa Fixed Assets panel crash in non-English language Fixed crash when selecting drop-down for paragraph alignment (and others) Fixed loading of PSD files with pattern strokes Fixed object styles to include text formatting Fixed text handling to deal with dead keys, shortcuts and other keyboard issues Fixed crash in double-click on recent swatch Fixed export area not greyed out with no selection Added WMF/EMF presets and updated UI Fixed export overwriting existing file Fixed crash with shortcuts when no document open Fixed text not printing correctly Fixed WARP10 identification fallback when application starts (previously would say no hardware available) Added 'Use hardware Direct3D' option, which when unticked will use WARP10 instead Fixed crash when loading non-WEBP RIFF files (e.g.CorelDraw files) Fixed right-alt drag not duplicating Fixed typing problems in Help dialog Added OpenType Positional Alternates Fixed Layer panel continuously drawing Fixed menu bar hit boxes being too small Fixed pressing Enter in Transform panel after tabbing to input field adding extra line Fixed being unable to resize constraints tab Fixed New Document dialog Page Dimension boxes moving when Actual Size zoom is changed Fixed Colour panel flyout always resetting to HSL Colour Wheel Fixed dropping files, cancelling a PDF import, or having a PDF import fail causing the application to not close due to "Opening files" error message Fixed being unable to apply a font that has no Postscript name Fixed Clip To Canvas so it is always available (doesn't require a view), and is correctly remembered Fixed PDF export always converting text to curves Fixed Artboard names being ignored in the Export dialog Fixed being unable to open WMF files Fixed adjusting a value in the paragraph panel adding too many history entries Fixed crash when trying to place an .afdesign file that is currently open Fixed closing a PDF document not releasing it's file handle until the application is closed Changed "Before Paragraph Indent" to "Space Before Paragraph", and similarly for After, this is now consistent with command history and text styles Fixed studio docking problems Fixed PDF export to avoid using layers inside transparency groups Fixed pressure from Touch, Windows Pen, and Wacom Pen input Fixed being unable to search fonts using a previous letter Fixed opening a RAW file from a Unicode path Fixed manually typing gradient stops not positioning correctly Fixed Channel Mixer on Adjustment dialogs opening halfway off the screen Changed the short title for the Stroke panel to 'Str' instead of 'Lin' Fixed crash when undoing a 'deleted' layer via dragging to the bin icon on the Layers panel Fixed Channel Mixer on Adjustment dialogs Grey, CMYK and LAB not working correctly Fixed Colour Picker tool missing from keyboard shortcuts Fixed crash when maximising Help on second monitor Fixed editing a global colour using tint not updating object Fixed crash when entering CTRL+Tab as a keyboard shortcut Fixed blank entry in Keyboard Shortcuts (toggle constraints page) Fixed tooltip for Toggle UI shortcut being incorrect Added multiple gaps to snapping Fixed Export dialog showing More options incorrectly Fixed crash when entering large values in the New Document / Document Setup dialogs Fixed being unable to re-select Passthrough in blend modes Fixed no error message being shown if Export fails Fixed inconsistency in Units for some text attributes Fixed slow PSD load Fixed some UI being too small when translated Added additional translations Fixed being unable to install or crashing at startup due to corrupted Windows update (no longer ship the Visual C++ Redistributable) Upgraded .NET Framework to 4.6.2 to enable per-monitor DPI Known Issues The .NET installer can fail during the installation, try rebooting your computer as updates are pending On Windows 7, the view can flicker when resizing the window

Using Surface Pro 4. I'm having trouble with selecting objects with the SP4 pen. A single tap with the pen doesn't select an object. It only registers a tap with the pen when tapping AND moving an object. When using a mouse it works fine. Also I noticed when I have multiple artboards, the single Pen tap on an object selects the parent layer, in this case the Artboard Parent. Again, when using the mouse, I'm able to select objects directly. I'm not sure if this is a Surface Pen issue or an issue with the beta. Windows: As of 7.9.16 my machine is up to date. Thanks for creating this windows beta

Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability Requirements: None Download: Here This is the first planned update to the public beta, with several fixes targeting globalisation issues. Our current plan is to roll out a new beta each Thursday, though that is subject to change. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. Fixes Fixed popup buttons on the main toolbar causing multiple popups Fixed Export Persona UI jumping when clicking fields inside 'Choose prefix for suffix for the filename' Fixed Export Persona slice export options clipped text Fixed Export Persona Choose Prefix and Suffix dialog being too small Fixed Export Persona Choose Prefix and Suffix dialog flashes Fixed EPS export clipping paths getting combined with the following path Fixed crash using the history slider Fixed being unable to create global colours Fixed Typography panel disabling options incorrectly Fixed AltGr and alt-numeric keypad Fixed Ctrl + Numpad+ should also function as Zoom In Fixed icons failing to load on some locales Fixed loading of files with Unicode paths Enabled ClearType on dialogs and popups Fixed crash when clicking the Download button of the new update prompt Fixed not being able to open files via Explorer when the app is already running Fixed keyboard dead-codes Fixed keyboard shortcuts for moving objects forward/backwards Fixed Guides Manager, Add Vertical guide tooltip Clip To Canvas is now app-wide, and saved Fixed view menu being too long, moved zoom menu items into their own sub-menu Fixed installer failing to run from some Unicode paths Fixed being unable to paste RGB Hex Values Fixed guides manager not accepting numbers in user's locale Fixed Asset panel leaving gaps after disabling 'Show as List' Fixed crash when deleting a View and going back to Views menu Fixed crash with certain fonts (ZnikomitNo24), which fixes some startup issues PDF Export avoid using tiling bitmap patterns unless the fill is genuinely tiling Changed JPEG file extension to .jpg Implemented import and export of assets Fixed Ctrl+Tab breaking after customizing keyboard shortcuts Fixed crash when saving over keyboard shortcuts with the same name Updated translations Language names are now displayed in their native names Fixed current language not being selected properly Known Issues User interface translations are missing (e.g. menus, panels, etc) Loading some RAW and EPS files from Unicode paths will no longer crash, but won't import correctly Aero is now required as we can't accept any bug reports of performance or rendering problems, which may potentially be caused by running with Aero disabled We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Great to see that you have a windows version in the making, It means i can use it at work, as our company is mainly PC based. Although i prefer the Mac environment. Anyway... I have noticed on the Win beta version that every time i open the program the Swatch pallette defaults to small even though i have previously changed it to large. This also happens with a saved file. It does not recall my swatch size prefs and reverts to the default small. Win 10 64bit "125% - resolution 3840 x 2160

Currently run beta designer for windows v1.5.0.4 (win8.1 i5 2500K overclocked to 4gHz 8GB RAM, Samsung SSD + many other hard disks.) Created my master piece but the print shop wants me to give them the format in pdf, OK no problems, but... When I export to print I (original use document resolution) end up with extra image information (like it is displaying the edges of the images- perhaps you cold call them shadows or lines) in some places. When I use the export to "pdf export" option these anomalies don't show up. The image in designer doesn't' show any "extra shadows-lines" only in pdf for print. When export to .png it is also clean no shadow/line type of noise. Any ideas why the pdf gives two different results in this the case? Thanks.

Open two drawings. Open a new view on the second drawing Close the new view with a shortcut such as Ctrl W Result: Focus switches to drawing one Expected: Focus to switch to drawing two.

Wondering if there is a way to engage the zoom functionality without explicitly activating the Zoom[Z] tool. I'm looking for functionality mirroring Illustrator (Ctrl+Space+MouseLeft[or, MouseRight]) or Inkscape (middle mouse wheel). Windows Beta looks great!

I can't believe how this software can be this affordable compared to Adobe CC. Definitely switching from Illustrator and Photoshop. Very valuable software. Works without any issues on this specs (Acer Aspire 3820TG): i5 M450 (2.4 GHz), 4GB of RAM, HD 5650 VGA, 120GB SSD.

If I load a document, make some changes and then roll back to the root on the History panel, the document is still marked as 'Modified' and I am prompted to save it when I close it. Since 'Save History With Document' is turned off, I would expect the document to close without prompting.

If I start a new document and clear the 'Portrait' checkbox in the Document Setup dialog, I get a landscape document (as expected). When I revisit the dialog the 'Portrait' checkbox has a tick in it, but pressing 'OK' doesn't change the orientation to portrait, and clearing the checkbox also has no effect. I have the same problem if I start with a portrait document, change it to landscape and then try to change it back again.

Hi Affinity Team, I've import an imagen to the affinity designer, i select one part of the image and i'm trying to export this selection with the tool export in "File". My surprise is that it didn't export the selection with the background but sometimes it crashes. Thanks for your work amazing app for windows. Just a little bit of adjustements and should be a very nice program. Sorry for my english i'm spanish. Marc.

Hi guys, Just started using the beta, and thought I would make something. Started using the gradient tool and it's a little bit clunky. I can't select the little colour points. They are not coming up properly...

Affinity installed Windows, but the menu does not appear all that I see in the version for Mac. For example, do not have the option Document, Arrange and Filters. Enabling these options? I have also seen all the tools in the left panel. How to do this? Also could not move to the Portuguese language Brazil. Only a few items are converted (translated). Thank you very much!

I downloaded the beta from the email, but when I go to launch it, I get this window that pops up. I am running Windows 10 64-bit.

Hi, I was SO looking forward to playing with the Windows Beta, but I don't have a 64-bit install and don't really want to go through a clean install. Too much risk for potential problems on my Parallels Mac/Windows set-up. Is there any chance at all that there will be a 32-bit version of AD Windows later? Or do I have to buy a brand new 64-bit PC? Thanks, Sheila P.S. Congrats on the beta release! :)

Affinity: Just downloaded/installed Affinity Designer on Windows (Beta), and encountered a visual bug in the user interface preferences screen. After using the slider to adjust the UI Gamma, the other sliders misbehave in that they do not 'slide' anymore, but they still work in adjusting the grey levels. Only after re-adjusting the UI Gamma, the Grey level sliders correct themselves to the right position - but they still won't actually slide anymore. I've recorded this UI event, but can't upload them here.

Hello all, here is my feature request thread for the Windows Beta and the programs in general. You can find my bugs thread at https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21303-blacksheeps-bugs/ You can find my beta roughs thread at https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21321-blacksheeps-roughs/ For reference here is my computers specs: Intel NUC6i7KYK (Skull Canyon) Processor - Intel Core i7-6770HQ Skylake-H, 4C/8T, 2.6 GHz (Turbo to 3.5 GHz), 14nm, 6MB L2, 45W TDP Internal Graphics - Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 (Can be upgraded via Thunderbolt 3 based External GPU) Internal Storage - 2x Samsung SSD 950 PRO (512 GB; M.2 Type 2280 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe; 40nm; MLC V-NAND) RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 32GB (2 x 16G) 260-Pin DDR4 SO-DIMM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Laptop Memory Model F4 2133C15D-32GRS Monitor - Asus MB169C+ 15.6-Inch Portable USB Monitor --- Request 1 (30/06/2016) - Guides improvements Suggested improvements to work-flow with guides. Would like the Node tool to be able to drag guides from the rulers just as the move tool can. Would like guides to snap to points as they are being dragged. Snapping manger is used to turn on snapping with guides. Would like the option to individually control which guides snap --- Request 2 (30/06/2016) - Layers Need the greater right click controllers for the layers The option to send a layer to the top, bottom and perhaps middle of the hierarchy

Hello, I started a new document on Windows. Your tool is really cool :) and fast. Then I'd like to work on this document on my Mac. Unfortunately this isn't possible - please see attached screen shot. Regards. Designer_Windows_Apple.tiff

Hello all, here is my bug reporting thread You can find my feature requests thread at https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21319-blacksheeps-requests/ You can find my beta roughs thread at https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/21321-blacksheeps-roughs/ For reference here is my computers specs: Intel NUC6i7KYK (Skull Canyon) Processor - Intel Core i7-6770HQ Skylake-H, 4C/8T, 2.6 GHz (Turbo to 3.5 GHz), 14nm, 6MB L2, 45W TDP Internal Graphics - Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 (Can be upgraded via Thunderbolt 3 based External GPU) Internal Storage - 2x Samsung SSD 950 PRO (512 GB; M.2 Type 2280 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe; 40nm; MLC V-NAND) RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 32GB (2 x 16G) 260-Pin DDR4 SO-DIMM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Laptop Memory Model F4 2133C15D-32GRS Monitor - Asus MB169C+ 15.6-Inch Portable USB Monitor --- Report 1 (30/06/2016) - Fonts crashing the program While I was scrolling down the font list the program decided to crash. Error code is 0xC0000005 ZnikomitNo24 has proven to be the problem. Font and relative Znikomit have been sent for testing. ---