Unable to rollback from 1.9.0.932 to the previous version

[Ted North]

Installed  v.  1.9.0.932

Opened an existing  ,afdesign  file

 Made a lot of changes and saved it.

On attempt to print AFDesigner immediately crashed

Uninstalled v.  1.9.0.932

Attempted to open the same file and got an error message that the file can't be opened because it has some components created by a later version. 

Now it's impossible  to  use  a good and clean previous version because the file was being already modified by the latest version and impossible to use the latest version because it crashes. 

This is a time sensitive project that  that  is stuck.

Any suggestions on how to proceed before 1.9 is somehow fixed?

Thanks.

 

[Ted North]

I am not sure that printing is the only problem,  just the opposite.  it was just  the first encountered. But it shows that this release 1.9  is not ready for production use and anybody who upgrades right now  can expect much more problems along the way. 
So I prefer to rollback to the previous robust version 1.85. But the problem remained of  how to rollback the file that was kind of "corrupted" by version 1.9. 

I partially solved  it in the following  way: 

- in version 1.9  I exported the whole file as .svg

- I unistalled version 1.9 

- I installed version 1.85 

- I opened this .svg in   version 1.85  and saved it  as . afdesign file. 

It looked like it's resolved but it turned out that  during export from .afdesign to svg  all  Artboard structure of original file was lost  (each artboard was converted to a  layer and during printing it's now impossible 

to define a particular  "range"  which defeats the whole point.  Probably I will need to manually recreate all 23 artboards  of my document and to copy all the contents into them. 

So this Affinity Designer upgrade (that was absolutely unnecessary for my purposes) resulted in at least a few of days of lost time. 

Bummer... Affinity  products started to look to me more and more like Adobe products that I never upgraded earlier than 6 months after their  release when a lot of bugs were already found and  fixed.

 

[Mark Ingram]

Unfortunately we’ve discovered a problem when printing documents with more than 1 artboard. We will get this fixed as soon as possible. 

[Ted North]

On 2/6/2021 at 1:15 AM, Mark Ingram said:

Unfortunately we’ve discovered a problem when printing documents with more than 1 artboard. We will get this fixed as soon as possible. 

By the way, why not to add  a  useful feature to Affinity software.. The moment AFDesigner and AFPhoto are going to make irreversible changes to user files to automatically make  a backup copy of the files. That will make roll back possible in cases like this one.  Or at least to make a loud suggestion to the user to make a backup copy  manually. It will save us a lot of time and money.