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  1. A long time ago I reported this bug with a trial version of Affinity, now I have purchased the bundle and I see that they have not solved this problem. When I try to open certain files, affinity just won't open them!!!! It only shows a small message: "Loading 1 document" and it doesn't go from there, it doesn't let me close the program either and I have to do it from the process manager. On my iPad and Windows the file opens normally, the problem only occurs on MacOS
  2. Hello, everybody, I'm new to graphic design. I've been using Affinity Designer V1 for a couple of years now only for a special project, and have more or less figured out enough of AD on my MacBook to be able to do what I am trying to do with my project. I use the vector persona exclusively. So today when I went to open the app I found that every single file I've created is blank. I can see in the Layers panel that all my content is still there but nothing is showing up on the canvas, aside from those thin blue outlines showing the selected vector curve. I seem to remember that yesterday when I was using the program my laptop battery may have run down before I could close the program properly, and I'm wondering if now the app software is corrupted. If so I guess I would have to reinstall V1 or upgrade to V2, but I thought I would check here first in case it's merely a matter of some setting. I've tried opening AD files that were not open when the computer powered down, they are the same (blank canvas). I tried opening AD files I had previously saved onto a thumb drive, and they also have nothing but invisible content in them. I tried restarting AD, no change. I tried restarting my computer, no change. I've looked at the Dark/Light mode and that seems to have nothing to do with it. I've looked closely at the Swatches and Stroke panels and verified that the Stroke width is greater than zero, and has color applied. I can make changes to the Stroke and see the changes show up in the thumbnails of the Layers panel but not on the canvas. Of course then there are the Art Boards which seem to be missing. I've tried adding an Art Board to the canvas and just like the vectors, I can see the outline and it shows up in the Layers panel but I cannot make them visible. I've tried creating a new file and it does the same. Any suggestions?
  3. I am working on a book, like I have done in the past. I find it easier to sometimes read the words in using the dictation function built into macOS. I sometimes can work faster that way. I tried using this yesterday with Affinity Publisher, and it didn't work. I have tried everything I can think of to get it work and cannot. Has something changed? Is anyone else having this issue? Robby
  4. When I attempt to delete a table format, the application crashes. It does not seem to happen in a new document. I've uploaded the file. I'm on Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1. Hardware Acceleration is on. I expected the Table Format to delete, but instead the application crashes. Recipe: I created and formatted a table. I made a Table Format based on that table. I realized that the Table Format was not storing all the data properly, so I deleted the format. The application summarily crashed. I've been running into a lot of crashes and weird performance issues, so I think maybe there's something wrong with my book and/or files. I'm very frustrated. Screen Recording 2024-03-04 at 9.13.17 PM.mov AA_PT03_Gear.afpub
  5. So I'm finally making the switch from a windows laptop to a MacBook, and I wanna make sure that I get something that's both in my price range, and also runs affinity well. But that being said, there's a lot out there. If you use affinity on a MacBook, what have your experiences been? What year/model are your MacBooks? Are there any MacBooks I should stay away from? Affinity is by far the biggest consuming product I will use on the laptop, so that's why I'm here first. I've been told MacBook pros are the way to go, but I don't know much more than that, and my only mac experience has been an iPad pro and my 2016 imac all in one dinosaur, which barely runs affinity at this point.
  6. Applying the states takes almost 5-7 minutes! I have to mention that I have 16067 layers.
  7. We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.4.0 The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.4.0 are listed in this FAQ forum post: Those are the changes made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.3.1 To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) 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, which update through the Mac App Store).
  8. Version: 2.3.1 OS: Mac OS Sonoma 14.3.1 Hardware: M3 Max 2023 Macbook Pro 16" Issue: I am a long time user of Affinity Designer. I normally use a 16" 2019 Intel Macbook Pro and have had no issues on both Affinity Designer 1 & 2. I have now recently switched to an M3 Max Macbook, which is significantly faster than my older Intel machine. However, Affinity Designer 2 on the new machine is very frequently laggy (zooming in/out and panning very choppy, obvious lag when clicking between objects) even with very small documents containing a small number of items. Other times it goes back to normal with 0 lag. I am not running any other high-demand applications while using Affinity Designer. I have checked my performance settings but everything is set very high, including the use of OpenGL. Is this behavious normal? Is there something I am missing? Has anyone else encountered this issue? Would appreciate all insight, thanks!
  9. Hi, I'm using Publisher 2.3.1, and I've just run into a reproducible crash that appears to be related to the spellcheck process. This crash initially occurred in a 40-page document file that uses the "English (United Kingdom)" spellcheck dictionary. When I opened the document tonight, I had fixed all of the Preflight spellcheck "errors" with the exception of three instances of the word "aluminum", which were flagged as not being spelled "aluminium", as I checked with my editor to determine which version of English (UK or US) was to be used. Informed that UK English would be used, I successfully changed the first instance of "aluminum", and Publisher crashed when I right-clicked on the second instance. Upon restart, Preflight now showed a large number of spellcheck "errors", which was consistent with Publisher having "forgotten" all of the words that weren't actually misspellings, but were just proper names that weren't in the spellcheck dictionary, forcing me to go through them all once more, and specifying "Ignore Spelling" for each of them. When I tried this, though, the first "Ignore Spelling" setting seemed to work, but the second caused Publisher to crash again. I managed to trim the file down to a very "bare bones" version (attached here) that still exhibits the crash error. Steps to reproduce are: Open the file. In the Preflight section of the left sidebar, click the "Check Now" button. This should reveal two spelling errors, "Davvidson" and "sales@zzvid.org". Double-click the "Davvidson" entry in Preflight, which will select it in the document. In the document, right-click the selected "Davvidson" and select "Ignore Spelling" from the dropdown. This appears to work correctly. Double-click the "sales@zzvid.org" entry in Preflight, which will select it in the document. In the document, right-click the selected "sales@zzvid.org", which will cause Publisher to immediately crash and exit, with no warning. I'm wondering if this might be caused by some sort of local corruption of the retained collection of "Ignore Spelling" words. If this is the case, then I'd expect that you won't be able to reproduce the error that I'm seeing, and if this is the case, I'd appreciate any suggestions as to how I can fix this on my end. If you are able to reproduce the error, then this would appear to be some sort of bug. Thanks, Ken PublisherSpellcheckCrash_v3_27Feb24.afpub
  10. We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.4.0 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.4.0 are listed in this FAQ forum post: Those are the changes made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.3.1 To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) 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, which update through the Mac App Store).
  11. We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.4.0 The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.4.0 (those made since the last release ) are listed in this FAQ forum post: Those are the changes made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.3.1 To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here 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, which update through the Mac App Store).
  12. "Maximize a window: Press and hold the Option key while you click the green button in the top-left corner of an app window. To return to the previous window size, Option-click the button again." Doesn't work. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2469/mac Screenrec.mov
  13. Designed some neuemorphic icons for the Affinity Suite in Designer. Inspired by @yeye's Affinity Designer icon on Dribbble. Hope you guys like it! I'd love some feedback or ideas! Affinity Designer Neue.afdesign Affinity Photo Neue.afdesign Affinity Publisher Neue 2.afdesign
  14. For fun, here is an A. Designer file resuming as precisely as possible (as best I could...) the original look of macOS folders. The file is prepared to easily customize them with your icons (just black and white) and icon and background colors. The macOS folder icons are taken from Apple's typeface series, SF Pro. Here is the download link for this free typeface with many other very practical variations: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ I hope this will be useful to you... (en français) Reprise des icônes des dossiers système de macOS Pour le fun, voici un fichier A. Designer reprenant le plus précisément possible (du mieux que j'ai pu...) le look original des dossiers de macOS. Le fichier est préparé pour les personnaliser facilement avec vos icônes (simplement en noir en blanc) et les coloris d'icône et de fond. Les icônes des dossiers de macOS sont issus de la série de polices de caratère d'Apple, SF Pro. Voici le lien de téléchargement de cette typo gratuite avec de multiples autres déclinaisons très pratiques : https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ J'espère que cela vous sera utile... Montage_macOS_FOLDER.afdesign
  15. We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Designer 2, version 2.3.1 The changes in Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.3.1 (those made since the last release Affinity Designer 2 for macOS 2.3.0) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) 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, which update through the Mac App Store).
  16. If I add a pixel layer to a symbol, AD won't render what is drawn in real time. I have to go to the Move tool or switch back to Vector Persona to see what was drawn. Sometimes I get a clipped image, and sometimes no image at all. Video attached show only a partial render of pixel drawing until I go to the Move tool. Vector drawing render correctly. Screen Recording 2024-01-22 at 7.43.19 PM.mov
  17. I'm using Affinity Publisher2 on my macOS laptop I have been receiving notifications for all of my text to be 'Missing dictionary for language (en-TH)' even though my text are in English I'm not quite sure what's going on? The spelling check still work just fine, but I'm just wondering why I keep getting these pop-ups
  18. Hi folks, I have created a flyer, a third of A4, which I have filled with content, backgrounds and a graphic. The .afpub is 1.4 MB in size. When I want to open this document, it takes forever (! - about 4 minutes) until it is open and can be edited. Does this happen often? What can I do about it? Thank you very much, Hooray
  19. I want to create a Procedural Texture filter preset using one of the Voronoi functions, but can't seem to make it work. I know there's a standard Voronoi Filter, but it is very limited...basically size and line thickness. I was hoping to be able to create a PT filter that allows me to adjust size, shape, line thickness, distortion, blur, etc. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but I can't get the Voronoi functions (i.e., cellnoise, cellnoise2, cellnoisedist, cellnoiseedge) to do anything at all. Can anyone provide some examples that work to get me pointed in the right direction? I'm using v2.3.1 on a Mac running Ventura. Thanks.
  20. Affinity applications have had issues with windows management from the start, its been years and I don't see any improvement. 1. If you quit the application while working in fullscreen mode, opening the application will result in a maxed out window that even go under the menu bar. The dimensions of the window when not in fullscreen should be stored and used instead. 2. Linked to this widow size problem, the screen might not be the same as last time the application was opened so the window should never exceed the screen size minus the dock (if it is not hidden) and the menu bar. I think Apple design guidelines do define all of this. 3. When opening the application, the personas button are sometimes in the same place as the windows buttons. As if the fullscreen mode was never exited. 4. Opening a file in an application should always put the focus on the application AND show the space where the application is active. Currently if you open a file by dragging it on the application icon (which is a very common practice for long time macOS users) the application will only gain focus. You have to change between your spaces to see that the file was correctly opened. This drives me nuts as I always wait for the application to load the file and then appear like all the other applications do, then after a while I remember that I have to switch to the application's space.
  21. The following thinapp.py Python 3 script can be used on macOS systems to thin the multi-architecture Affinity apps (the FAT binaries, containing "x86_64" and "arm64" architectures) to the one only specific architecture just required by the particular Mac platform ("x86_64" or "arm64"). This will reclaim some disk space. Important prerequisites in order to make use of the thinapp.py Python script: Python 3 is installed on your MacOS system MacOS lipo from the Xcode development CLI tools is installed and can be find under /usr/bin/lipo ...or... an alternative GO based lipo from https://github.com/konoui/lipo/ A working file command is available and can be find under /usr/bin/file In order to check for the needed prerequisites, you can perform a corresponding which command execution in Terminal.app: > which python3 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin/python3 > which lipo /usr/bin/lipo > which file /usr/bin/file If all of the above prerequisites are met, you can execute the thinapp.py Python 3 script in Terminal.app like this to get a short help overview... If you apply execution rights to the thinapp.py Python 3 script, via "chmod +x thinapp.py" in Terminal.app, then you can also execute the script via it's filename directly just by calling it, aka thinapp.py or thinapp.py -h . For the -arch option argument supported architectures are x86_64 or arm64, in order to thin an app to an just Intel or Arm platform specific app only here! Now in order to thin let's say Affinity Designer.app to contain just the Intel "x86_64" architecture and thus to strip out the "arm64" architecture from it's FAT binary app, you would call thinapp.py this way ... ... which in turn would then create a duplicate copy of "Affinity Designer.app" under the by the -o option as argument given file path "/Users/<yourusername>/tmp" and then process to thin it there under the "/Users/<yourusername>/tmp/Affinity Designer.app" file path. The as -arch option given x86_64 argument tells thinapp.py to keep just that x86_64 architecture, meaning that the arm64 architecture will be stripped out of the FAT binary app. After the script has finished it's work, you can compare the ADe sizes under "/Applications/Affinity Designer.app" and "/Users/<yourusername>/tmp/Affinity Designer.app" in order to see how much space has been reclaimed due to the architecture thinning process. Next you can start the thinned app from "/Users/<yourusername>/tmp/Affinity Designer.app" in order to see if it operates well. - If all is fine, you can remove the initial "/Applications/Affinity Designer.app" and replace it with the thinned one from "/Users/<yourusername>/tmp/Affinity Designer.app" (... so exchanging the initial with the thinned app). What you can expect from thinning the V1 apps of ADe, APh and APub size wise is ... ADe v1 = initially ~2.59 GB after thinning to x86_64 it has then ~1.69 GB APh v1 = initially ~2.65 GB after thinning to x86_64 it has then ~1.71 GB APub v1 = initially ~2.60 GB after thinning to x86_64 it has then ~1.65 GB Here's the thinapp.py Python 3 script: thinapp.py <-- has been updated! And as always, have fun!
  22. We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.3.1 The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.3.1 (those made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for macOS 2.3.0) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here 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, which update through the Mac App Store).
  23. We are pleased to announce an update for the macOS release of Affinity Photo 2, version 2.3.1 The changes in Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.3.1 (those made since the last release Affinity Photo 2 for macOS 2.3.0) are listed in this FAQ forum post: To get notified when any new releases are made please follow the latest releases thread by clicking here UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (which is free for all V2 users) 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, which update through the Mac App Store).
  24. the font I have problem with is: Seravek It was the default font on my mac. Once upon a time I've updated macos and found that they delete the font from the system, so I reinstalled it to my mac manually but anyway affinity designer doesn't see the font (other apps see) I need that font, how to make it work?
  25. I was watching a class on Affinity Photo on Udemy and the instructor clicked on "Help" and started typing something in and, the help menu expanded to actual help for what he was looking for ("Crop" in this case). And when he clicked on one of the entries, it opened a window to the actual help section. When I do that, all I get are links to Affinity Photo Help, and even that is not useful because if I use the search box there, I mostly get general Help Topics on the Mac (in this case, typing "Crop" on the "Affinity Help Window" search box will tell me how to Crop in the Preview App among other tidbits. I might also get links to menu items if there's a menu item associated with the help query. I generally have to pull up the manual on the interwebs and search there for what I'm trying to do and even THAT is problematic, as I generally end up getting the Affinity 1.9 or 1.10 manual unless my Google-fu is on point that day. How do I make the Help Menu actually provide help and not a run-around?
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