Affinity Designer new update 1.10.5 crash and quit when trying to print on MacOS Monterey 12.2.1 on MacBook pro

[Jean-Seb]

Just updated my affinity designer to the last version 1.10.5 and now I cannot print anymore. Each time I try the application quit without any warning... This is very annoying. Is there a fix for that issue yet?

Macbook pro with MAcOS Monterey 12.2.1

Here is the crash report:

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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Process:               Affinity Designer [48377]
Path:                  /Applications/Affinity Designer.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Designer
Identifier:            com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner
Version:               1.10.5 (1.10.15)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        launchd [1]
User ID:               502

Date/Time:             2022-03-29 09:41:30.3445 +0200
OS Version:            macOS 12.2.1 (21D62)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     3.0 (14Y910)
Anonymous UUID:        34413E77-3DFC-DAD9-ED74-DB40FC5CC287

Sleep/Wake UUID:       1BA4D586-B6D4-40F5-8AF6-C0D8800CA6A2

Time Awake Since Boot: 160000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       55420 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000018
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000018
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 11 Segmentation fault: 11
Terminating Process:   exc handler [48377]

VM Region Info: 0x18 is not in any region.  Bytes before following region: 4308877288
      REGION TYPE                    START - END         [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD  REGION DETAIL
      UNUSED SPACE AT START
--->  
      __TEXT                      100d44000-100d94000    [  320K] r-x/r-x SM=COW  ...nity Designer

Application Specific Information:
ERROR: png: 0x7f9a64591200    png_info: 0x7f9a6aa916d0
Performing @selector(print:) from sender NSMenuItem 0x6000013b5960

[Lee D]

Just done a test print from Designer 1.10.5 on macOS 12.2.1 (iMac) which printed without any issues.

Can you try the steps below and then see if you can print from Affinity:

1. Go into the Notes app or TextEdit and type anything
2. Select to Print > Presets > Show Presets > Tick the box to Reset Presets Menu to "Default Settings" After Printing
3. Continue to print
4. Now launch Affinity Designer > Open a document > Select Print
5. If it hasn't crashed > Select printer settings manually and not "Last Used Settings" > Continue to print
6. Select Print again > Untick the reset option listed above

[Jean-Seb]

Thank you very much Lee D. 

I am not sure what happened but resetting the printing parameters to default got rid of the issue.

Affinity designer can print again normally.

Many thanks for your quick answer.

 

[Philip Fong]

So far, this version is the worst for me, it just crash 50% of the time without warning, sometime I was doing something else and come back, the program quit and I am not even aware. Very disappointed because I have more than 20 years of working experience in the field and this is not acceptable, I have no issues with my hardware, running 3D and other programs without problem. 

The very first version is the best, I don't need the fancy stuff, now its is so annoying.