Affinity Photo is a professional photo editing tool with all the power you’ll ever need. Live retouch tools work in real time and its speed means there’s no waiting to see your results. Non-destructive editing, raw processing and end-to-end color management are standard, so Affinity Photo has all the features required to make beautiful photographs spring to life.
Affinity Designer is a vector graphic design solution used by professional designers, artists, and creatives who are working on illustrations, icons, branding, UI designs, typography, print projects, mock ups, web graphics, pattern designs, and concept arts.
Affinity Publisher is professional-grade publishing software built to rival Adobe InDesign. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.
Affinity Photo 1.8.2 new features & improvements:
- Fixed a source of instability when enumerating fonts at startup
- Added "Use Windows Ink for tablet input" preference (enabled by default, disable to use WinTab)
- Fixed artefacts when rasterising a group with live filters
- Fixed Layer Effects to smart objects
- Fixed flat EXR export to honour layer blend mode
- Fixed selection problems with clipped groups
- Fixed failure to export to vector formats when a document contains a flipped object with line style and scale to object enabled
- Fixed PDF export outputting some 1-bit masks as inverted, leaving them mostly transparent
- Fixed crash reordering layers via drag/drop when Layers panel is floating
- Added missing 'Repeat Filter' keyboard shortcut
- Fixed Canon 5D MK II images not loading correctly
- Fixed sporadic RAW load crash
- Fixed New Document dialog Presets bar incorrectly hidden when switching between Templates and Presets
- Fixed New Document dialog Template folders with a '.' cutting off subsequent characters
- Fixed several boolean operations and expand stroke issues on simple geometry or compound objects
- Fixed unable to paste text into editors after receiving tab focus
- Fixed New Documents dialog allowing minus values in Document Size, Margins and Bleed
- Improved performance of Layers Panel when updating previews of Artistic Text
- Fixed input lag (500ms) when drawing with a pen using Windows Ink
- Improved text responsiveness
- Added missing Procedural Texture degrees/radians toggle
- Fixed being unable to move Info targets in Develop Persona
- Improved precision of Defringe
- Fixed Focus Merge throwing away images
- Fixed crash when dragging asset containing missing fonts
- Fixed cursor not getting hidden while resizing brush
- Changed AlignTo option to disable when no Aligment option is set
- Fixed parent layer not selected when right clicking an enclosure nodes non-icon area
- Added 'Zoom' context menu for Pan tool
- Fixed Enclosure layers not being able to be repositioned to the top level
- Fixed Enclosure thumbnails being reversed in a collapsed parent row
- Fixed Node tool Cycle Selection keyboard shortcut not set
- Help and Localization improvements.
Affinity Designer 1.8.2 new features & improvements:
- Fixed a source of instability when enumerating fonts at startup
- Added "Use Windows Ink for tablet input" preference (enabled by default, disable to use WinTab)
- Fixed dashed line expansion when used inside/outside of closed shapes
- Fixed some geometric operations on curves resulting in curves with no corners, but the Corner tool still recognised the corners
- Fixed flat EXR export to honour layer blend mode
- Fixed selection problems with clipped groups
- Fixed failure to export to vector formats when a document contains a flipped object with line style and scale to object enabled
- Fixed PDF export outputting some 1-bit masks as inverted, leaving them mostly transparent
- Fixed crash reordering layers via drag/drop when Layers panel is floating
- Allow PSD smart object support (like Photo)
- Fixed crash when switching between artboards with Appearance panel visible
- Fixed New Document dialog Presets bar incorrectly hidden when switching between Templates and Presets
- Fixed New Document dialog Template folders with a '.' cutting off subsequent characters
- Fixed several boolean operations and expand stroke issues on simple geometry or compound objects
- Fixed unable to paste text into editors after receiving tab focus
- Fixed New Documents dialog allowing minus values in Document Size, Margins and Bleed
- Improved performance of Layers Panel when updating previews of Artistic Text
- Fixed input lag (500ms) when drawing with a pen using Windows Ink
- Improved text responsiveness
- Fixed crash when dragging asset containing missing fonts
- Fixed cursor not getting hidden while resizing brush
- Changed AlignTo option to disable when no Alignment option is set
- Fixed parent layer not selected when right clicking an enclosure nodes non-icon area
- Added 'Zoom' context menu for Pan tool
- Fixed Enclosure layers not being able to be repositioned to the top level
- Fixed Enclosure thumbnails being reversed in a collapsed parent row
- Fixed Node tool Cycle Selection keyboard shortcut not set
- Help and Localization improvements.
Affinity Publisher 1.8.2 new features & improvements:
General
- Fixed a source of instability when enumerating fonts at startup
- Fix for bleed not available in Photo Persona
- New document panel - terminology and UI tweaks
- New document panel - saves settings between uses
- Stability and performance improvements for geometry operations
- Fix for collecting multiple instances of the same resource image
- Fixed issue with placed Artboard documents losing selected Artboard ID
- Help and Localisation improvements
Document Management
- Fixes for slow page operations - adding / deleting /moving etc
- Stability and performance improvements adding and deleting pages
- Fixed issue with sections being incorrectly deleted when pages deleted
- (Win) Fix for inability to scroll through whole document in certain circumstances
Hyperlinks
- Hyperlink Panel wasn't displaying hyperlinks on Master pages
- Renaming hyperlinks in Hyperlink Panel can detach objects
Text
- Spelling not honouring the language set for the text frames when opening document
- Fix for ligatures being disabled in justified text
- Fixes for Catalan Hyphenation
IDML
- IDML Import could create corrupt images
- IDML Import crash fixes with specific documents
- IDML Import - crash fixes for specific documents
- IDML import of hyphenation
Other Import / Export
- Fixed issue exporting caused by hyperlinks
- PDF Export - Images with a 1 bit mask could be output incorrectly (or not at all)
- XLSX - File import improvements
- (Win) PDF Export - PDF X4 convert image colour space was not available
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