Affinity Designer for Windows - 1.9.2

[Patrick Connor]

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Designer, version 1.9.2

The detailed changes in Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.2 (over the last release Affinity Designer for Windows 1.9.1) are as follows:

Fixes & Improvements:

• Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time)
• Fixed some downloadable brushes being considered undeletable
• Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images
• Improved Brush and Asset categories to be alphabetically sorted
• Fixed line breaks not being copied to clipboard.
• Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads.
• Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized artboards or groups
• Fixed crash with Vector Brush Tool when the Appearance panel is open and undoing a brush stroke and selection changes to an object that had no linestyle 
• Fixed failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight
• Fixed loading of certain assets consuming huge amounts of memory
• Fixed specific Print Profile crash
• Fixed crash when dragging Unsplash images from panel when Unsplash is returning errors
• Added F15 / F16 zoom shortcuts for tablets
• Fixed print orientation being wrong when printing Label with Auto Rotate selected 
• Fixed stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects 
• Fixed "Print job was cancelled from print manager" using Canon iPF 5100 drivers 
• Fixed ending the print spooler from Services causing the app to hang..
• Help and Localisation improvements
• Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes.

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 Windows 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 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.

[Patrick Connor]

All Readers

This thread is solely for commenting on this announcement.

Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Designer Bugs on Windows section and questions about usage go in the Desktop Questions forum.

[Uwe367]

Thanks for the updates to all three apps.
It feels that the apps are starting up faster and the work with it runs more smoothly.
Well done, thumbs up 👍

[Eroica]

Any updates to hardware acceleration for AMD 5xxx cards?

[Patrick Connor]

40 minutes ago, Eroica said:

Any updates to hardware acceleration for AMD 5xxx cards?

Current conversation and a reply on this is here

[EvGa]

Can you create a system that updades the software automatically please? 

[Ply23r]

Please add onion skin, if you couldn't add animation like in Photoshop at least add onion skin to help your users who want to animate their designs in other softwares.