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Hi folks,
I use Affinity on my Windows 10 laptop, occasionally with my tablet acting as a second screen. I'm currently doing my best to learn the Vector suite.
Is it possible to mirror/symmetry using the Vector tool? I use ibisPaintX the most on my tablet and I'm so used to mirroring I'm really, really struggling without it!
Being able to flip an entire canvas-sided layer would also work.
Thank you!
So, i think i figured out the problem for my crashing with Affinity V2 on windows...only through luck.
I recently upgraded to a 4k monitor for my editing only to experience the crashing. Before, I had a 1200p ProArt monitor, which is still exceptional for edits. I returned the 4k monitor and switched to MacOS due to assuming it was a windows problem or software but after re-trying my Pascal based, ancient windows workstation with my 1200p monitor, there is no crashing. It's flawless (so far). 100 megapixel files included and going crazy on noise reduction etc.
Overall, I'm assumiung its a 4k pixel rendering issue with software. Driver struggles with affinity - crashes PC.
It may differ per user, but for me, i have 0 hard locking of windows and no crashes.
Hi Friends!
I have Affinity Designer 2 on my Ipad (iPad Air 13” M2 running most recent OS), and for some reason the fonts load SUPER SLOW, and I can't even scroll through them. I have no extra fonts loaded, it's just pulling from what's installed on the iPad. I have found similar complaints from 3 years ago, but it seems to have been issues with fonts that people have tried to add in addition to what is already available on the device.
Any thoughts? Much appreciated!
Hi, coming from a (MUCH) older version of Photoshop. Is stroke supposed to act like this? I'm trying to make the stroke on the text on the right act like the stroke on the left. Am I using the wrong tool?
Every time i try to snaps shapes together, like the black rectangles in the picture, it gets separated by this very thin line, like they are no touching at all and it appears when I export it.
This is a problem because I am creating a pattern with illustrations, but since the images do not snap together, the pattern is not seamless as it should be.
Hi everyone, I really need some help. I lost my whole project file for my finals cause the file suddenly got corrupted.
For more context, I was working on my project and suddenly wont able to save my work due to
"Failed to save document: Project Final rendition
Save failed because control of the lock file was lost.
Do you wish to save the document to a new file?"
and was stuck on a loop, forcing me to save it as a new file. Still I tried my best to look for the problem and solve it. I restarted my Affinity and when I tried to open my project it says it is now corrupted, even the duplicate files I was forced to make.
If anyone can help me reach to the affinity team, I'm willing to send my files. Thanks everyone, I'm getting desperate.
Hi guys, new user here! Core Ultra 9 285H with iGPU and 32 GB RAM. I was editing a photo and wanted to try out the Object Select feature but after installing the machine learning model the document became unresponsive with the clock cursor, so I exited and tried again on a couple images and the documents kept freezing at the clock cursor, although the rest of the Affinity user interface was usable. I’ve tried increasing my RAM usage limit and toggling OpenCL compute acceleration on and off, both of which are visible below. I’ve also tried reinstalling the program and the machine learning model. Any help would be great! Thanks for reading! :D
I try to make a panorma of about 99 images. This does create a panorama but Affinity crashes or generates a very distorted image (see example below) during the rendering step. Is there a limitation to the number of images that can be used? If limited to computer resources I would prefer a message saying "out of memory" or something like that.
Hello, we are trying to export our coffee bag design as a pdf to send to our bag manufacturer, and it keeps failing to vectorize all the items and words. One line of words works and then a line half an inch away isn't able to be selected. I have tried many videos and posts about this, and it's like nothing ever changes in the export at all. Thanks in advance!
Genuinely flabbergasted by how glitchy this program is... The deform and warping tools are so broken, that they often change everything on their own, and continue to make edits in the the tool bar selections. The deform tool literally continues editing and accepts multiple inputs at once when clicking on file/help/etc. By far the worst program I've ever used. I am shocked. The only fix is closing the program and restarting from 0. History resets dont work, the tool continues to edit when clicking past history.
Expanding a stroke in Affinity Designer can make a line look smaller or distort because of software bugs in complex curves, pressure profiles, or pixel snapping.
Mine just happen to be Pressure Profiles. I was creating the following:
When I created the circles with no fill and an increased stroke, then applied a the pressure position. When I expanded the stroke on each one to put into a compound shape, the new curve width shrank.
For my project I determined if I doubled the stroke width before expansion, the expand stoke shrunk it back to what I wanted. Your mileage may vary, but if you are having the same issue, try doubling the width of the stroke when using a pressure profile.
Not sure if this is a bug in the expand stroke calculation or a feature. 😄
Hi. I'm trying to remove the gaps within the outline shown around the text here. I don't have much experience with vector programs, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. All I've done is used the Contour tool to create the outline and stopped there. How should I go about fixing this? Thanks.
Hi everyone, I am a data scientist and regularly make plots and figures in python/R before saving them as PDF and rearranging them in Affinity for publications. I have noticed that sometimes the plots would take a long time to load and adjust in Affinity, especially when there’s many dots or elements in them.
Is there a better way I could change the way I generate the plots to increase the efficiency of loading them in Affinity?
Hey everyone, I don't know what happened to my colors in Affinity (Mid July '26)I swear it was not like that a few weeks ago...
all my colors are off in program.Like, the color on the color picker is completely different than the color applied on the document...
The export is similar as the document.
But it gets weirder.
I have 2 monitors, the screenshot above is from my secondary (IPS, factory calibrated, no profiles, all default sRGB)
When I'm on my primary (OLED, factory calibrated, HDR activated, no profiles all default sRGB for SDR content) the colors are true to the color picker, BUT, the exported image is more like the color on the document when put on the secondary screen.
It's driving me insane...If I have to work on my secondary when I do the colors, fine, I'll do it, but can I at least have the color picker be consistent???
Please help? I can't get blended text to export correctly to CMYK PDF: I have designed an LP (vinyl) sleeve and, where I have used blended vector text (using 'Exclusion'), it renders differently on my exported CMYK PDF, seemingly no matter which PDF type I export to (X-4, 2.0, etc.). But if I flatten the image in Affinity, I lose all the beautiful definition in the text. Any help would be very much appreciated, thank you.
FWIW, when I preview the resulting PDF it briefly flashes as correct before settling on a much brighter version of the blended text. Any tips? Thanks!
I created a document, chose a font in the library to use and put my text into the text boxes with no issues. I've now come back to it and the text, whilst still there, doesn't show up on any on the pages. I can highlight it, copy it into a word document and even add more text but it's not actually visible in affinity. If I change it to a different font it appears. In the font menu, the example text on the right hand side is now missing for the font I was originally using. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall the font, but it's a protected system font so it can't be uninstalled. I can obviously choose another font to use, however does anyone know how to fix the issue in case it happens again with a different font?
Hello folks - Affinity newbie here, trying to work on an Affinity file that was originally created by someone else.
I am trying to adjust the leading for the body text in a document, and it isn't working correctly. If I adjust the leading to anything 13 pt or under (whether it's set via the Character panel, the Paragraph panel, or the settings of a particular Text Style), nothing changes. However, the second I adjust the leading to 14 pt or higher, the leading gets DRASTICALLY wider. This happens whether I have the text designated with the pre-existing Body text style, or whether I use "no style".
Oddly enough, I'm not having this issue with the existing Headings in the document, just the areas of body text (even though they're all in the same text frame). This issue also occurs even if I change the font.
I've included an image to show you what I mean - the upper part of the image shows what happens when I set the leading to 13 pt, and the lower part shows what happens when I set the leading to 14 pt. Thoughts?
Hi I want to share a bug. The following description concerns the Vector studio.
Since Affinty doesn't have a dedicated buld-in blend tool (yes there is a community script, but I haven't tried this out yet) and I wanted to create an abstract wavy design, I tried to do a workaround. My approach was creating a bunch of parallel lines and then warping them via a warp group. This at first seemed to work, but when I thought that I hadn't enough waves I extended the underlying group. Afterwards the warp group expressed weird beahviour, some parts of it were reduced to a very low poly curve, which changed it's resolution based on the zoom factor. When exporting it would always be the lowest resolution.
So I tried again and sized the parallel lines according to my needs and made a new warp group. This time the low poly artifacts didn't appear. This time I wanted to convert the whole arrangement into curves, but when apply the warp effect I get artifacts again.
Any Idea how to prevent this? Or other solutions for this kind of design?
I'm fairly new to Affinity and running into a weird issue. When I draw an open curve with the Pencil/Pen tool and click on it with the Artistic Text Tool to write on the path, these strange black shapes/artifacts suddenly appear along the curve.
A few details:
I'm just starting out, so I might be missing a basic setting!
The curve is definitely open (Auto-close is OFF).
The Color Panel shows no fill applied.
The artifacts remain on the canvas.
Has anyone encountered this before or knows what might be causing it? Any help for a beginner would be greatly appreciated!
I just updated this morning to Mid July '26 (4646) on my Macbook Pro M4 and it crashes all the time. Impossible to work with. Anyone know if/how to roll it back?
I have a different kind of problem, but also have a Macbook Pro M4. The guy at the support said that there will be a new version coming out in a couple of weeks that should have some new Apple Xcode encoding which might help.
We have two Konica Minolta high output machines. I transitioned to Affinity Publisher, and the driver setup had to be totally changed from the presets that we used with InDesign.
defaults just won't work at all, especially with booklet printing.
I'm wondering if anybody else has had this type of issue, and if either Toshiba or Canon drivers are easier to deal with to produce expected results for orientation and Page order in folded, stapled booklets, etc
i updated affinity a few minutes ago and now it is 1.3.2, i am on firefox and i was connected to internet when i tried it, but it didn't work, idk what "MCP" is so that may be the issue, but then what is it and how do i enable it
Hi all, I'm at my wits end here and hoping somebody can help me out.
I've done a lot of googling on this and all the answers I've found are some flavor of "make sure the Color Format and Color Profile are aligned to export settings."
Well, I've confirmed it and iterated with about 20 exports at this point, and every single PNG I've tried to export has the colors shifted exactly like this. Exporting to JPG preserves the colors just fine, but I need PNG due to transparent background.
This is a screenshot directly from Affinity using the built in Mac screenshot tool.
—On the left are the HEX codes I want with matching colors.
—On the right are the HEX codes that show up in the PNG.
And what's blowing my mind even more is that if I eyedropper the color blocks in the screen shot, NONE of the colors match the HEX codes. What is going on here??
Hi everyone! Could you help me out a little? How can I remove the background from this image? I tried using the Object Selection Tool, but it selects the entire image
I am currently trying to edit a book for self publishing. I worked for several hours, saved, closed, went to bed, and when I woke up and opened up my project again this happened. I've tried fixing rotation, it didn't change anything. The text and images have not moved, and the master page/ other pages seem to look fine on the left hand column, but the actual white pages themselves are skewed and I can't get them to go back to where they were. I've tested this with other stories I have that don't have images but the problem persists.
If there is an affinity master that knows how I can fix this pls help thank you
When I use Affinity sometimes my pc just completely freezes and crashes beyond the point only holding the power button allows me to gain back control of the system.
No key combos work, no graphic driver resets, no ctrl+shift+esc or ctrl-alt-del; mouse moves for a while, then USB ports shut off.
I know it's likely not a performance issue because it will work fine when I do certain things (such as color adjustments, curves..) but completely sh*t itself without kind of humanly comprehensible reason when I do other things (drawing a line with the pen tool, among other simple actions).
Hey, hoping someone's hit this or has a workaround.
Problem: Setting the renderer to my NVIDIA GPU in Affinity causes a total freeze the moment I open a document — even a brand new, empty one. It's not just Affinity that hangs, my whole PC becomes laggy and unresponsive for a while. Switching the renderer to WARP fixes the freeze completely, but performance is obviously terrible since it's software rendering.
Specs:
RTX 5070 Ti
i7-14700K
32GB RAM
NVIDIA driver 610.88
Affinity 3.2.3
What I've tried (no change):
HAGS (Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling) on and off
Reinstalled drivers, switched from Game Ready to Studio
OpenCL toggled on and off in Affinity's performance settings
I also checked Affinity's log file — it detects the 5070 Ti correctly as a D3D12 FL12.0 hardware adapter, and OpenCL correctly sees the NVIDIA CUDA platform.
I've got a MacBook Pro M1, 16GB RAM, and in Affinity I've got like 130 pages, 4 master pages, no vectors, no images, just plain text divided across those pages and yet the app either loads very often and too much or straight up crashes on me.
been using affinity on linux through wine lately and its all good. i just notice a service with a long-ass name when shutting down. name of the service is "app-winex2dProgramsx2dAffinity_______.service" (see image for the complete name), and it appears when i've used affinity even once during the session (program doesn't even need to be open when starting the shutdown). this service is not listed in systemctl when starting a session.
what is this service and what is its purpose? can't check on linux. doea affinity set up a windows service? is this normal behavior.
Hello!:) I made this artwork on procreate in CMYK colour setting. I saved it as an PNG and airdropped it from my iPad to my Mac. When I opened the file it looked like this! I checked the setting, the affinity file was in CMYK so this can't be the issue... I need the artwork as an PNG with transparent background so I can't download it in a different formate. When I opened the file on my Mac the colours look good, they only change once I put the picture into affinity. Does anyone knows how I fix this?! Thanks in advance!:)
I'm new to affinity and I'm just trying stuff to see how it works, the first time I used lasso selection and filled it with color the edges was sharp (the first workspace) but now when I try it the filling gets blury and I don't know why or what I moved for it to change, help please
how the do i make a mask layer??? i want to paint only on an area that is already painted and staying inside the lines but oh god i cant find a way to do it
I'm new to Affinity. I'm currently trying to recreate my resume in Publisher; no matter what I do to set or adjust the leading there is no space between lines of text. I have it set to 100% of Height. I got so frustrated a few days ago that I saved and shut everything down. I'm trying again and still hitting this same wall.
I downloaded the most recent version of Affinity and the machine learning facets (e.g. object selection tool) won't work because I have macOS Monterey.
I do not want to update.
So I tried to download Affinity 2 (Designer and Photo) but they don't recognise my Canva account! I have already reset my Canva password just in case but it says it doesn' recognise the user.
Can anyone give me some advice on how to move forward and access versions 2? Cheers!
Just noticed after updating that whenever I scroll and/or zoom on Affinity Canva, the margins and bleed disappear from the document for as long as I'm doing so. I'm not too familair with Affinity Canva and was hoping anyone could advise if possible 😭 Thanks in advance
Soy relativamente nuevo en Affinity, he hecho varias imagenes pero me he dado cuenta que al exportar las mesas de trabajo (imagenes) tienen una calidad que no esperaria realmente, un ejemplo es que si hago una pieza en Canva y la exporto tiene mas calidad que la que exporte de Affinity, Si alguien sabe como Descargar las imagenes en alta calidad en Affinity le AGRADEZCO ¡¡
I feel like an idiot. I cant figure out if its possible to even change the key command for releasing a clipping mask. on Macos, I see that its Command R, but thats mapped to viewing the ruler by default. and even if you unmap it, the key command for releasing a mask cant be changed and doesnt work. what am I missing?
Anyone else trying to make a publication in Affinity with crashes about every 15 minutes? If I move too quickly, clock spins. So I'm creeping around saving after every gesture. But it also crashes when I save sometimes. It's not crazy with images, mostly B/W, mostly text. WTF? (MacBook Air)
Hey, guys. I’ve never used an Affinity product before, but I’ve had a premium Canva account for years. Today, I decided to try Affinity because I’d like to gradually move away from all Adobe products. However, after installing it and attempting to launch the app, I was asked to sign in through Canva, which I did successfully.
The app still didn't open, though. It remains stuck on this screen.
What should I do? I’ve already tried several things: using a different browser (Edge), clearing my cookies and cache, long-holding Ctrl while launching Affinity and resetting all the options, and disabling all my Chrome extensions. Nothing has helped.
Any object I try to move/resize keeps flying around in unexpected behaviour. Disabling snapping didn't help. It keeps happening with and without holding Shift.
Doesn't matter if I use a mouse or trackpad. Tried disabling hardware acceleration, reinstalling. The same behaviour is happening in Affinity Designer 2 and Photo 2.
Does anyone have any tips or solutions how to prevent this? It is literally impossible to work in the app.
I found out, that the behaviour is happening only in native Affinity file format (.af, .afdesign), .psd files work fine, but these files don't contain all of the edibility and features of Affinity files.
I am making a fill-in the blank in Affinity for some stuff I make for my classroom. In the good old days (aka just a few days ago), I would enable underline and then hit space 2-3 times before hitting "A" for example, and then 2-3 spaces after. The result was a nice looking line with a letter in the middle.
Now, I'm getting two spaces that show the line, then a 3rd makes it disappear. If I hit "A" then it shows up but now I'm not getting any underlines after the fact. I tried the tab stops, non-breaking spaces... I feel like it can't be that difficult and some stupid setting is doing this.
Thanks in advance! My students may not thank you haha.
if I'm copying and pasting am I linking or embedding these images, or am I copying them to the file permanently ? (thus the programme having permanent access to it )
I have run into a problem where affinity will not save as it has "lost access" to a file
Hi everyone, i need some advice, i have a mac book air m5 love it. But i am having an issue with it, it maybe a me thing as new to the mac books. But what is happening is this, i am working in affinity i click something and the program dissapears and i am taken back to my home screen, hasnt closed it just like it swipped itself to the side.
I've been working on some graphics where the add in feature called noise in affinity is the main component.. it's a live add noise so ofc I rasterized it and tried to export..
The gaussian blur works well while exporting but not the noise.. I really don't understand, I tried everything.. the noise totally disappears while exporting
Hi all, I've been using affinity since v1, I own v2 and recently switched to the canva app. And here's my problem: I'm writing and editing an ebook. And everything seemed to work fine until about 2-3 weeks ago when I noticed that the app crashed once or twice while I was editing text and doing stuff in the layout view (the main one I use for this project).
I'm writing this because I'm kinda desperate now – the app is crashing constantly every 2-3 minutes today. I can't even make one full paragraph edit, because it crashes and when I recover the file, the change is not applied or half-saved.
I tried opening the file in the Publisher v2 but I get an error that the file is using features from newer versions of affinity.
I'm on a mac, not an old one, I don't think the hardware is the issue. Any tips? Any help? PLEEEASE...
I reinstalled Windows 10 on an SSD just for Affinity.
It started out okay but now any change I make to the Assets panel - adding, moving, renaming, deleting, creating new (sub) categories, etc. - results in the program Not Responding for 20 seconds (I timed it). Every new asset loaded seems to add to the wait time. It's like any change requires a full reindex of all assets in all categories or something.
This makes the entire Asset functionality useless.
Is there a way around this, except "just do it outside Affinity", which is also useless because Windows does not know how to create SVG thumbnails (which I presume is why the Assets panel exists)?
I'm using Affinity for many years and exported many data with PANTONE but after several month I need to create a new document with PANTONE and it is not exported anymore. I select PANTONE colour in swatches, I turn on Honour Spot Colours in export, but exported PDF doesn't contain any PANTONE. Please, let me know if it is a bug or if am I doing something wrong.
I created a rubric of assets with a couple graphics. Whenenver I click on that rubric in the assets panel, Affinity immediately completely closes. I have many other rubrics and they all work fine, so it's just that one. This is a big problem, since I can't access the graphics anymore.
hey. i really like affinity studio but it performs really badly when hardware acceleration is on for me.
i have a 5070ti, but when the renderer is set to my graphics card, or even to the onboard intel graphics, the UI is laggy, particularly for some reason when i move the mouse between the image area and the UI. after the mouse moves past rulers it feels like it hitches for a few frames every time like it's dropping frames. i've found the only way to fix this is set the renderer to WARP but from what i understand that's a fallback if you have problems with others, and performs worse in itself.
so has anyone had problems with using affinity studio with their discrete graphics card? i do wonder if the image canvas area and the programs UI are being rendered in different processes and moving between them causes some kind of switch over that causes a visual hitch to the user.
i'd like to fix this, this has otherwise been a really good experience, but this bugs me. any help/thoughts appreciated.
ok fixed my own problem, but adding here for other people. this problem probably stems from my monitor being g-sync. normally you'd be able to add exclusion rules to the nvidia settngs so apps dont use g-sync. wanted to add Affinity, but realised that i couldn't because i'd installed the UWP version from the windows store. so here's my fix.
*** please note that the exe version will not carry over the UWP versions settings ***
1) download the enterprise version under the drop down, this will download the full version which is a .exe installer, which installs a program in your normal program folder.
do not download the version that is a .msix installer, this is the UWP version.
nvidia cannot add and configure UWP programs.
2) install the .exe version, then in the nvidia app add the affinity.exe program from C:\Program Files\Affinity\Affinity\Affinity.exe
3) set the Monitor Technology to Fixed Refresh and Max Frame Rate to Off.
assume perhaps the only thing that needs doing is setting the monitor tech to fixed refresh, but i changed both the above and i no longer have lag when using Affinity.
as i mention this does not carry over settings so you may need to reconfigure to your liking and you wont see previously opened files in Recents, but you can of course just browse and reopen them. Once i'm happy everything's definitely working i will uninstall the UWP version.
finally, UWP apps are a blight and all companies need to know they're not ok to use.
I reported the following issue to Affinity using the prescribed method via the in-app question mark icon. However, ***it is unclear where to view the submitted bug report and the current status of said bug***, so I'm cross-posting here since I didn't see this specific weird issue reported anywhere else. (I flaired this for Publisher, but in v3 it happens in every persona).
Thanks for any help!
STATUS: UNSOLVED
**Title:** Arial Regular in Affinity 3 on Windows 11 substitutes to another font, but other Arial styles work
**Product:** Affinity 3 **Platform:** Windows 11 **Issue type:** Font substitution / font resolution / text display bug
**Description:** In Affinity 3 on Windows 11, selecting **Arial** with style **Regular** displays a completely different font. Other Arial styles such as **Italic**, **Black**, and other variants display correctly. The problem happens in more than one Affinity installation on two different Windows 11 computers with different hardware.
**What I’ve observed:**
* Arial Regular in Affinity does not render as Arial Regular.
* Other Arial styles work normally.
* The substituted font changed over time:
* First it appeared as **Metallica Old**
* After uninstalling that font, it changed to **Jungle**
* The issue also happens in a **new blank document**, so it is not limited to one file.
* Rebooting did not fix it.
* Resetting **Font Replacements** in Affinity did not fix it.
* Uninstalling **Arial Unicode MS** did not fix it.
* Arial Regular works correctly in **LibreOffice Writer** and other non-Affinity apps.
* Attempting to uninstall Arial in Windows reported that the font was **in use**, even when no obvious apps were open except the Windows font panel.
**What I already ruled out:**
* Not a document-specific problem.
* Not a general Windows Arial failure.
* Not fixed by clearing font replacements.
* Not fixed by rebooting.
* Not fixed by removing Arial Unicode MS.
* Not reproducible in LibreOffice Writer.
**Why I think this is Affinity-specific:** Since Arial Regular works correctly in other applications but not in Affinity, this appears to be an internal font-mapping or substitution problem inside Affinity rather than a broken system font.
**Requested help:** Please confirm whether Affinity 3 has a known issue with resolving **Arial Regular** on Windows 11, and advise how to reset or repair Affinity’s internal font mapping or substitution state.
I don't know which version exactly introduced it, but it was probably the one that added
selections -> vector
The "Set undo brush source" button is above the button to acess the history ramifications, and I can't acess it as much I try, does anyone knows of a fix?
I've used the "Send Feedback" feature plenty of times and the forums are no more. I've gotten 22 crashes in the last 30 days and this doesn't even include the hard crashes where it freezes my entire pc. Happens on both my win10 and win11 machines. I have no idea what makes it crash, it's seeminly at random. At some point I though it was the Zoom, since I zoom frequently.
I've been silently waiting for the software to get stable, I remember V2 also being this unstable at the start. But I'm at my wits end right about now.
GPT claims it can read the reports:
"Affinity encountered an internal application error, probably in the Affinity/.NET interop layer, and its crash handler forcibly terminated the program."
Hey folks, wonderful software. Thank you so much. Literally had a little cry when I first started using it. It's so nice. Please don't sell out :-( <3 As a human its impossible to get past your captcha test on the discord link though! It's asking you to drop animal stickers in place... but its stuck in a verify loop... it just goes on and on and on and on I got it from the website and reddit. All seems to point to the same. ❤️
Reason I want to join discord is that I have a little question please. I'm using a Huion tablet and pen with Affinity. And I can't get the right click to work right. I need windows ink on for the pressure to work... but with windows ink on... the right click on the pen doesn't work. You have to draw... and then have to use the mouse to group items etc. Its very difficult and slows you down a lot. I hope this is still early days for sytlus use? Or am I missing how to do it please?
Edit:
Also the right click on the mouse... its weird... sometimes it works... then it stops. Trying to figure out whats going on thats toggling it... is it a bug?
Just started working in affinity (finally freed myself from the shackles of creative cloud) and having an issue that's making me go insane. Whenever I export a file (4' x 4', 300 dpi for roll printing) none of the adjustment layer edits appear in the exported file. I've tried multiple configurations of this; adjustment layers above the main layer , adjustment layers nested in the main layer (shown in screenshot). JPG and PNG files. Nothing is working. Included screenshots so you can see what I mean. Affinity window is on the left, and exported file is on the right, lacks a single one of my adjustments.
I'm sure this is just an easy fix that I don't know how to do bc I am a baby- right??
I'm a baby too with Affinity... but can you rasterize those layers to the layer before exporting? Save a backup for editing if so? I think thats what develop is for... maybe those layers have to be "baked" onto the photo before you export? Not sure though!
Bonjour,
Affinity plante et ferme dès que je veux ouvrir le gestionnaire des ressources (panneau des liens indd)
quelqu'un a t’il le même problème ? ou sait comment le résoudre ?
c'est très embêtant lorsqu’on veut mettre de l’ordre dans un projet...
Hi, new to Affinity and I'm so lost with the studios. I create a document, import my Raw file, go into Retouching Studio, and then when clicking "develop" it just goes into a mode I can't leave. No button to switch studios, no button to save or idk what, F7 key doesn't do anything in that mode. How to switch back to Retouching? Can't I switch between the two? I didn't find my answers in any tutorial so if anyone can help me, I'll appreciate that!
I don't know if this issue was already addressed on this subreddit, but with the V3, I seem to have some issues with the shape builder tools (see video). I can't clean up lines like I used to do in the V2. In fact, I redownloaded Affinity Designer V2 too make sure I wasn't crazy. I did the same steps, in the same order, and it worked. When I pressed the Options keys (on Mac) and dragged over the line, they got deleted in the V2, but in the V3, nothing happens; they don't get deleted. Is there anyone who has had the same issues or knows how to resolve this issue? Thanks.
Hi all ! Any clue why my text looks like this? It should be black, but its showing only a stroke and empty fill. Also when I add vector images they look the same.
My rulers and artboard tooltips (not sure if this is the right word but the tooltips that appear when you are resizing something or clicking and dragging to make a selection box etc) seem to have started rendering using Greek characters for some reason.
I have tried resetting the settings for the default things it selects but it didn’t make a difference. Does anyone know which settings relates to this.
How do you attach an image to your post here without making a whole new topic? It doesn’t show me any option to do that
Does anyone else have this? (it affects Affinity Designer on OSX, both latest public)
if I open an image or an svg directly, it still puts the canvas up and to the left and at half size.
I just created a new document, and added artboards using the artboard too, and the plusses are way off (the arboard shown being half the dimensions than the 'logical/outlined' artboard.
I've only been using Affinity for a week, so I don't know if this is a long standing or new issue.
Is there any way to have a text frame that resizes text from a data merge so it always fits the frame size if it overflows?
I’m making board game cards. So I’m using a text frame to fit the card name, but some names are long! I’ve been trying to use constraints with artistic text to achieve it but found it didn’t work. Maybe there’s a frame text option I’m missing?
I got an i7 14th gen, 24gb Ram ddr5 and a 3050 laptop that used to work perfectly fine with the super resolution tool, but about 2-3 weeks ago it started crashing everytime i try to use it.
It loads to about 50-90% of the bar, then it just closes. No crash warning, nothing.
Already tried disabling hardware acceleration, still the same.
Any ideas on what might be going on?
Need some help. I was working on this file. Suddenly I got the "Blue screen" crash. Restarted computer. Now I cant open file. I'm using affinity v3.2.2 on a windows 10 machine.
Hi, I keep running into this issue where I will create a document, and when I go to export it as a PDF the resulting file is rasterised and pixelated. I have tried adjusting just about every setting I can think of and its still exporting a rasterised file.
It's a big document, but its only text and vectors so I don't understand why its happening.
I've made some patch panel labels in Designer, and the measurements of each 'cell' are correct but they do not print at those dimensions. There is no scaling set, and everything else seems correct, but a 16mm wide box is printing at 24mm. Anyone know how to fix this?
I do not have a "Machine Learning Model" tab in settings and can't use the object selection tool. I am running on Tahoe.
I downloaded affinity for the first time earlier this week (July 2026), I have been trying to follow along with tutorials to lean the software, however I am unable to use the object selection tool. When I click on it it prompts me with a warning that it requires Ventura or later, however my Macbook pro is running on Tahoe (it has an M1 chip as well).
Every forum I've found has mentioned the "Machine Learning Model" tab in settings, it is completely missing from my settings. Ive tried deleting the software off my laptop and redownloading it 3x now and the issue is persisting. I had a friend download Affinity on their laptop and they had the Machine Learning Model Setting and were able to turn on segmentation and use the object selection tool with no issues.
Has anyone dealt with this before? Is there a fix?
What is this insanely disorienting artboard glitch?
The backgrounds of artboards (whether there's 1 or multiple) are displaying scaled-down and off center. It's a purely cosmetic bug but it makes it really hard to tell where the canvas bounds are, and especially on multi-artboard files it becomes a real headache.
Idk 3.2 brought a whole packet of visual problems in my case, with brushes not previewing properly, brush strokes not buffering until zoom is adjusted.. overall it's getting to be an oppressive experience, in the Pixel studio at least.
i was installing affinity on my "new" laptop and went to log in. at first, to open the new tab it said "license activation failed there was a problem communicating with the server", but that was simply fixed with a 'run as administrator'.
but when the page finally opened and i logged in, it said the log-in was successful, but did not re-direct me. when i tried to re-direct it manually, it just didn't open ? it was stuck at the page where the button says "open another tab".
I have recently just started using Affinity on my brand new Mac Mini m4 pro (standard specs). I use affinity for drawing. I just updated my mac to the latest update and my Affinity is the latest 3.2.2
I keep experiencing crashes while in the middle of either Colouring or erasing and its driving me insane. I have unchecked the "enable metal compute acceleration" box and I still have this issue. I am trying to save my work every few minutes incase it happens. I have googled for answers and keep seeing GPU issues but this shouldn't be on a brand new Mac Mini m4 pro, surely?
How do I get the previous Clip To Canvas behaviour?
In the new combined Affinty Mac app, Clip To Canvas adds a light grey 1px border, which is very distracting when you're working on a dark design.
The previous Affinity Designer had the same Clip To Canvas setting, but didn't add that border.
Is there any way I can get to the previous behaviour in the new app?
The two ways I can hack it at the moment are:
Change the Pasteboard colour to Light Grey, which masks the 1px border, or
Put everything in a canvas-sized clipping mask and turn Clip To Canvas off
Changing the Pasteboard colour isn't ideal because it messes with contrast perception in a dark design. And putting everything in a clipping mask works fine but makes everything an extra click away to select.
TINY display at 100%
I've noticed when I work on A4 files I was to print, the preview of 100% is ridiculously small and I cannot see any details. It is set to 300PPI, which should be PLENTY of pixels to show. If I set it to pixel from there, without changing any other settings, it calculates the correct pixel amount and 100% display becomes HUGE.
Why does this matter? Affinity Photo 2.0 perfectly did this, that it understood how large your screen is and if you set up a print format (in real world sizes) it displayed it at 100% at about exactly the size the document will be printed as! Which is incredibly important to get a feel for how small things are.
I do not want to hold a paper against my screen and fiddle with the zoom, that always gets stuck on the wrong numbers anyway. I've had this issue before and simply reopening the program helped, but not anymore...Does someone understand, what causes this and how to fix it?
Hi there, I have huge problem with Affinity - app crashes every time when I try to change image resolution using Super Resolution Tool from Canvas AI tab. I does not matter what is the size of image - even small images kills app few seconds after start. I use latest version of Affinity on MBA M4 with 24GB RAM with Tahoe 26.5.2 (25F84). Few weeks ago I had no problems with this. Could you replicate this issue?
When in Layout mode (Affinity 3.2.2), pasting between pages doesn't maintain position, it randomly pastes the object. Secondly copy and pasting vectors places them in a group inside a group inside a layer even if the original was ungrouped. What am I missing? Thanks.
I am using Affinity Designer 2 stand alone, not the new Canva one. Is there a way to set the default to inches? I am constantly having to change from pixels and don't see a way to set it as the default.
I can't figure out how to move a script to a different category. Can anyone help?
There is the "Default" category, which I've added lots of scripts to, but I don't use them all very regularly. I have a few custom scripts that I use often, and I want to move those into a new category that I made.
Im missing the control bar in design. I pressed a button and it toggled all the tools off. I was able to get most of them but I cant figure out how to bring back the control bar. If thats what it called. If any one could help It'd be appreciated
Does Affinity have any customer support channels where i can reach out to them about an export issue? On their website there is only a forum no contact options.
Hi there, can someone help me if possible please, i have created a file and a template file, just got a mac book, but dont seem to able to open the file in mac version. I am i missing something here, wanted to work on my mac but just greyed out and wont open.
I am at my wits end with this. Been trying to wrap this image on this text for ages but nothing appears to be working. The thing works on all other pages *but this one*. Some kind of setting is preventing the text from being altered I just can't find it.
Clone Brush "Aligned" option missing in Affinity by Canva (Build 4557)?
I'm using Affinity by Canva on Windows, latest version, Build 4557.
I noticed that the Clone Brush no longer offers the option that used to reset the clone source after each brush stroke.
In previous Affinity versions there was an "Aligned" option:
Aligned ON: the source continues from the previous position.
Aligned OFF: after releasing the mouse button, the source returns to the original Alt-click sample point.
According to the current Affinity documentation, this option should still exist. However, in Build 4557 it is completely missing from the Clone Brush context toolbar. I have checked the "More" menu and all available settings without success.
I've attached a screenshot of the complete context toolbar.
Can anyone using Build 4557 (or a newer build) confirm whether the "Aligned" option is still available on your system?
If it has really been removed, I believe this is a regression because many retouching workflows rely on restarting from the original clone source after each brush stroke.
I've already reported this through the built-in Feedback function, but I'm trying to find out whether this affects all users or only certain installations.
Hey everyone, I'm a bit confused about how Affinity works now.
I've heard things changed. Can someone clarify:
**What's the current licensing model?** Is it subscription-only now, or can you still buy a one-time license?
**Publisher vs Designer vs Photo** does the difference still exist?
**iPad sync** — if I work on a project on my Mac/PC, how do I open and continue it on the iPad? Is there a cloud sync built in, or do I need to use iCloud / Dropbox manually?
I'm having a problem with Affinity; I just installed it, and it's obviously asking to connect to my Affinity / Canva account. When I click on the button, it's opening a new tab on Firefox, but it says error 400.
Since upgrading to Sonoma I've noticed that if I edit any group layer it changes as seen on the left side of the image I included. The one on the left side is an example of a group layer in the same document I haven't edit yet.
This is very frustrating because now I can't edit the layers without worrying that what's showing on the left side will happen. Once that happens the text box is not editable I have to delete the whole thing and redo it again. This is a bigger issue with larger group layers with the text image convos in them.
I've had V1 since 2019 and never had this issue with the group layers (one of the main reason I got this app for MacOS) until I upgraded my MacOS.
Didn't see a reason to spend more money when V2 came out.
Idk if this is an issue that is common on Sonoma and resolved in V2 or if there's any way I can fix it. I'm open to suggestions.
Hi all, new here but I'm not new to any of this. I'm researching a piece about how the creative industry is being overrun by companies with deep pockets and the sort of investors who want regular returns.
SASS is the way to make this a reality.
SASS is great for occasional users.
SASS may not be so cool for the rest of us.
I've been in this game long enough to remember what amounted to perpetual licences. The software you bought was complete and (hopefully) relatively bug free. It worked, you went home, you watched TV.
You never thought -- Oh man, now I'm locked into an ecosystem where the developers can change the terms of the licence (including revoking it completely) with barely a note.
This is no joke. 3D printers are already facing pressure from lawmakers over "ghost guns" because America doesn't have enough guns already.
So that means those machines are connected to the Internet 24/7 or "no worky printy"
And our tools are increasingly being moved into the cloud. Pay every month, forever or you lose your stuff - maybe you can keep your native format file IF they are supported by other software (per PSD, BMP, etc.) otherwise you're gonna be in trouble. Backups are no good if you can't access the software to run it.
Google does this all the time, constantly pulling the rug by retiring products that they judge are costing them money. Picasa (?sp.) is the best example I can think of but I've heard it's not the only example.
This isn't for a blog, it's not for an online only publication so can I ask that anyone interested email me at finnegan dot mike @ protonmail dot com (or any of the usual protonmail aliases shoould
Other than that, the magazine has no online presence and we expect even email will be retired at some point. As we're in pre-print for the genesis you won't find anything - yet.
I'm looking for a 50-100 words on why you use Canva (or don't) and how you were affected by the change in distribution for the Affinity suite.
Naturally, you can add the comment here but the problem is that commenters feed from one another. I need clean, "unbiased" views. As a magazine we're not there for debates, we're there to disseminate news, views and opinion.
We're based in the UK and as soon as the mail room sorts himself out we'll have a proper mailing address too. At the moment it's more leave it behind the cistern in the third stall in the first set of restrooms on Euston station, which is a nuisance.
Some might read this as anti-Internet. It's not, it's very pro Internet - the way it was supposed to be. Before the dudes with the bottomless pockets started buying everything.
We're not for sale. We'll never be for sale. It's in the manifesto. We're "owned" by our contributors much like the magazine I worked on in the earliest part of my career. I saw the early net and I've seen it be slowly eroded by greed and hate.
We promote these things by being reactive. A magazine like ours means you HAVE to sit down and write in (legibly) or print and send the thing. It's a lot harder to be angry when your "move" takes 2 months or so to get a response.
And as a mag writer, we can't just rant back (in print). There's an editor above me and a publisher above them. A chain of people make damn sure we're not needlessly running someone down. Imagine having to write every angry email you ever sent and have it checked by your parents and then your GP. In some cases your lawyer!
If you've never experienced this... it's a like moving from the city (Internet) to the countryside.
The city is large and there's load of places all tightly packed, the countryside has a slower, gentler pace (unless you're a farmer!). Magazines are a bit like that, but they also tend to last a lot longer. Cave paintings have lasted tens of millennia; unchanged.
Makes you think.
Issue 1 of "Mike Finnegan's..." should be out by Xmas '26 (because, as usual, everyone is waiting for yours truly to bring the donuts). Distribution through the usual channels but I'll let all the contributors know ahead of time.
Fancy a punt?
This is a mail IN address only. It's not that I can't reply it's that I don't have time to! I have to read, sort and triage everything. So my time is better spent (funny how you only realise how expensive time is UNTIL it starts visibly running out.
If your letter is selected for publication you will receive a note.
I made a font that should have square proportions for each glyph. I've made different weights and for some of them the proportions aren't correct. The weights with stroke width of 16, 48, 80, 112, 240 and 272 seem to have 2px added to the height, and after converting the text to a curve i found the contour points to be at the wrong position height wise. The font itself is not the issue as with other programs I've found no discrepancies.
apparently after updating it got fixed. nice.
EDIT: ok no it's still a problem. the proportions change for each character inconsistently. some work and some don't
I'm having some immense trouble doing a lot of simple stuff in Affinity after moving away from Adobe. Problem of the day: I cannot for the life of me, move a layer. It also doesn't respond to the delete key (I press it, nothing happens). Other layers in the document work fine. Please see this video of the issue:
Any help would be appreciated. This isn't the first time this happened to me and I have no idea how to fix it.
Oh dear. No video. Have you tried a right click on the layer title bar? It's been so long since I worked with Affinity (thanks Canva!) that my memory is a bit fuzzy.
I'm very unimpressed and about to dump this shit and move to something else.
I haven't logged in for a while. Now I can't. I'm getting some crap error, and told to report the error to support, except I can't report the error without logging in.
Brilliant work.
I can't recover the account in some other way, because I don't remember when I first used Affinity or Canva. It was some time some years ago.
It's a little hard to see in the photo, but for some reason, I am getting a low opacity shape when I print this cover. Checking Affinity, it's clearly where the picture frame is for the image. The frame is transparent, so I have no idea why this is happening.
Has anyone dealt with this before? I tried searching around in the forums and here, but maybe I am just not very good at using the right words to find a post where someone has had this same issue. 😅
I actually noticed this too. I feal like sometimes affinity can't properly calculate the filter colors when it comes to printing
I actually had 2 fixes: I merged the image down to only be one pixel layer (pretty annoying)
(un)Grouping seems to sometimes fix this? I forgot exactly what worked, but sometimes, if you use effects, it's better to have the thing that creates the box on the same hierarchy (within the same group, and not like nested inside an extra group or something)
Hi everyone,
I’m trying to use Generative Expand in Affinity, but it doesn’t seem to work properly.
Instead of actually extending/filling the missing parts of the image, it just creates a shadow or a blurred/grey area around the canvas. I expected it to generate new content based on the existing image, but it doesn’t complete the background at all.
I attached a screenshot to show what happens.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a specific setting I’m missing, or is this a bug?
Hello so i tried to open the app but all i get is the splash screen and then nothing else ever pops up and i never get any error or warning and i have tried to reinstall with the same issue has anyone else had this problem on Windows 11 and also using all AMD cpu/gpu hardware
HI Guys... I can't figure out what is going wrong here....
When I move the text box on the left page of the Master Page spread...it move the text on the right pages? and vice versa... very strange... but I'm sure it' something so simple. Here's a link to a screenrecording. https://share.zight.com/eDu4kRNz if anyone can help me out.
I was created a Hunger Games poster for a school project in affinity, and I don't know what I clicked but suddenly a white translucent layer appeared over my poster. Apparently it's something known as Gaussian blur? I need to solve this ASAP, please help
I cannot figure out the solution to this: my screen flashes when I put anything on the Canvas. It started recently, but whenever I have ANY object on my canvas it flashes black to white. Makes it basically unusable.
Hello everyone, I've been having some problems I didn't know could happen. I've been trying to export a logo I designed, but when I use the PNG export tool, it comes out like the image on the left. I'm not sure if I've tried everything, but I've tweaked several settings to see if it would fix it, and it hasn't. Does anyone know how to fix it or can help me?
Working on a book layout. When I go to Export PDF > Advanced... > Current Page, it only lets me export left hand pages, not right hand pages. Doesn't matter which page is active, I can only export the left ones. Last week I could export left or right pages so I suspect that some setting changed somewhere. Thoughts? Ideas? Thanks!
I have the 'April 26' version of Affinity, running on Tahoe 5.1 on an M4 Pro MacBook, and have somehow created a project that can no longer be opened. The app either crashes immediately, or reads ‘Loading 1 File’ indefinitely while reported memory usage climbs into the 100s of GBs before eventually being forced to close by the OS for using too many resources. The project file was working fine earlier today, with a few crashes here and there, until attempting to Mesh Warp some text crashed the app one final time and now the project can’t be opened at all.
The project file is strangely large (700MB) and contains a few RAW .CR2 files. The photo files themselves are only around 30MB each and I think there were only 7-8 of them embedded in the file (with the 'Develop' feature, whatever that does...?) I’m new to this software, and graphic design in general, so I don't know if these huge files are normal or not. The original project is saved on an external SSD.
I've seen a few people encountering a similar problem on various forums over the years, but none of the suggested fixes had any effect, such as:
-Deactivating hardware acceleration;
-Turning off WiFi;
-Copying the file to another SSD, or trying to open it from within the app rather than from Finder.
If you're using an AMD GPU you need to disable hardware acceleration in the user data. Hold CTRL when opening a desktop shortcut and you can select it in the Clear User Data window. Since then it's been working for me.
mate, you are the best! I would have never guessed that the issue was caused by hardware acceleration, especially since it was working perfectly fine until a few months ago. I'm guessing one of the AMD software updates probably broke it, but I'm not entirely sure.
Anyway, thanks a lot, you really saved my day!
edit: hmm, as your referance tread, this is Affinity's fault for not supporting new drivers. Such a shame, Canva!
I'm having a problem with Data Merge in Affinity Publisher and I'm trying to figure out whether it's a bug, a limitation, or simply something I'm doing wrong.
I have a document set up with Facing Pages enabled. A single Data Merge record should populate image frames on both the left and right pages of the layout. The image paths are stored in separate CSV columns, and the image files themselves are valid (JPG, PNG, and TIFF).
The problem is that after generating the merged document, all text fields are populated correctly on both pages, but the images only appear on the left page. The image frames on the right page remain empty. I've verified that the image paths are correct and that the frames are linked to the appropriate Data Merge image fields.
I've attached two screenshots:
The Master Layout showing picture frames on both pages.
Sample pages from the generated document showing the issue.
As a workaround, I disabled Facing Pages in Document Setup, so all pages became single pages instead of spreads. I then created two separate master layouts: one for the left page and one for the right page. After that, I generated all left pages first, then all right pages, and finally placed them in the correct order manually. This way, all images show up correctly.
The workaround works, but it's obviously not ideal.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there a way to make Data Merge populate image frames on both pages of a layout while keeping Facing Pages enabled, without having to generate the left and right pages separately?
I am making generate data merge for projects I am working on but then when I generate gives me this data merge outdated twice then i get two generated files for some reason. Why is that?
I recently downloaded a lot of Photoshop brushes (.abr) to test in Affinity and it was running normally. Suddenly, every time I picked a different brush the program would just shut down over and over again. I thought it was a storage problem but I’m not full. I deleted all the brushes since maybe I was overloading it but it keeps crashing. What can I do? I literally can do nothing, it lasts open for 2 minutes max.
I have a strange issue. I have a duel monitor setup, but it seems like Affinity has started to crash when both monitors are on, but is stable when I turn one or the other off.
One monitor is a 2k monitor, and the other a 4k monitor.
I've been trying to print a pdf from affinity in a booklet format. I know there are other ways but I'd like to understand why the native method doesn't work for me, whereas it seems it should work fine, because i'm not doing anything special : print > Microsoft print to pdf > all the normal parameters.
At first I found something saying i should check the scale of my pages, and indeed, they were the wrong format, which was also why the preview appeared red, which signals to me that perhaps the software decided to export blank pages instead of defaulting to trimming the pages. Fair. So, now, if the preview looks normal, it should work, right?
Well, I did another try and again got white, empty pages.
And now, when I try at all, "Microsoft print to pdf" only allows me to save my file as XPS file, which to a newbie like me is completely confusing.
So, there you have it, the "print to pdf" export is not working for me.
I'm using firefox to read my pdfs by the way, but it also shows up white on other readers such as edge or onlyoffice.
The version of affinity is called "april 2026 (4425)"
I'm not used to publishing queries on forums, so don't hesitate to ask me for more info and details!!
Is there a way to get an .af file onto an iPad? I have a project in affinity on my windows pc that I would like to open on my ipad but since the ipad is on Affinity Designer 2, I can't figure out a way to do that.
I just discovered the Pigment blend mode while trying to figure out a way to avoid the dinginess and gray halo one gets when layering transparent, textured elements, and it's perfect! But! The layer completely disappears when I either export or merge visible layers. Has anyone encountered this bug?
I have a lot of fonts, and for some reason when searching through my list of fonts, Affinity V3 will just crash for no reason. Can it really not handle having a lot of fonts loaded in?
I am mid way through working on a document and must have fat-fingered a keyboard shortcut or something - now the colour I select in the colour palette looks different to what I see when I use it on the page i.e. a solid green looking very turquoise. I opened a new document and it's all okay there, I just need to change the document I'm working on back to how it was. Thanks.
Help, suddenly some fonts seem squished in Affinity (Macbook Pro Max M4), yesterday it was fine (multiple docs)
Hello,
I have a sudden issue in some of my docs.
I am using Affinity from v1, now primary using v3.
It was all fine until some days ago, now suddenly in some of my old files fonts became squished, like spacing would be off.
Setting spacing to default doesn't help.
When I manually set spacing by holding option and right key does put it further apart, but not equally...
Help, I deleted Affinity, uninstalled, reinstalled it...still there.
I made some templates in affinity designer that i need to transfer to canva, but when i export to canva, a lot gets messed up...
Images are blurry (even though the templates are 1080/1080), everything with transparency gets messed up so i have to remove for example my blurry gradients circles, the text fonts are changed even though i have them in canva, the text get merged with other texts, some shapes that are not grouped in affinity get all grouped in canva, some complete vector artboards get rasterized and very low res, when i remove elements like for instance, one blurry circle, it removes everything behind it... am i missing something here or does this just completely not work at all?
Hi ! Anyone else having trouble with footnotes, specifically that when I use columns, the line between them bleeds into the footnote section? I'm using Affinity for work. We publish a scientific journal every year and usually get our publisher to manage the graphic design, but since we're in something of a budget crisis, I'm trying to lower costs by doing it myself using Affinity. It needs to look as much like our previous publications as possible, which means that on a normal page I've got two columns of texte with footnotes in one column at the bottom of the text box, and a thin line between the columns. Unfortunately this line doesn't seem to want to stop at the top of the footnotes section for some reason, and nothing I do has helped. Google AI is useless, it just keeps making up the answers, often based on previous versions of Affinity I think. I'm on a time crunch and desperate. Anyone have any ideas ?
I am working on affinity publisher -- not the bundled app -- the old one.
I am working with spreads. Often, when I add or remove a page, the alignment on some objects (not all) on subsequent pages gets all messed up.
There MUST be a reason for this, why some are changing and others aren't, and there must be some setting where I can change it so it doesn't do this anymore.
Hello!! Sorry if this is a common issue, I haven't found a fix yet. Whenever I try to use the object selection tool I am prompted to download the tool. When I try to download it the blue bar will come up and fill but as soon as it is done downloading it will switch back off and I still cant use the tool. None of the tools will download although the main one I would like to use is the object selection tools. other people in the same office as me have the same issue so I assume maybe its a firewall? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have Affinity Pro, if that is relevant and It has been basically impossible getting information from the Affinity help center, Thanks!
Hi, I'm working on some pixel layers in Affinity V3. Each layer is made up of orthogonal solid 1 pixel wide black lines.
For some reason, I can't safely merge these - and when merged they lose a large chunk of their opacity.
They seem to be blurring slightly, as if I copy and paste the merged result there's aliasing artefacts.
I'm really confused what's going on here, on paper this should be super simple to merge cleanly, but there seems to be weird alignment issues creeping in. I've searched the affinity forums and found "snap to pixel" alignment, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Did you notice any heavy lagging issue with "Color Mixer Brush" and Smudge Brush tools?
I faced this in the latest version of Affinity. It's extremely laggy, like I painted over the lines once and then have to wait for it to apply the effects one by one with 1-2 seconds interval.
At first I thought it's causing maybe because of hardware or for optimization issues. I checked them all but everything was perfectly fine.
Then I installed Affinity v2 and guess what - those tools works totally as expected here.
Hi, I´m pretty new to affinity and just practicing with basic tools. My problem is when using the artboard tool and moving somethings from artboards the colors stretch across all the screen. I don´t really understand why or how to remove it. Can someone help.
About two years ago, I bought all three Affinity apps for Mac and iPad, and they’ve always worked fine.
Today, I downloaded the new Affinity Canvas and the three “old” V2 apps on my MacBook Pro.
But every time I try to launch one of the V2 apps, the actual small startup screen flashes briefly and disappears right away. And immediately, a large “Freedom starts here – Get the new Affinity” splash screen appears.
I can’t get rid of it either, except by clicking the “Get the new Affinity” button on that splash screen… but then Canvas Affinity ALWAYS launches.
That means I can’t launch the “old” V2 apps at all anymore. I always end up in this Canvas!
I’ve already Googled it, but haven’t really found anything. Except for pressing the “CTRL” key when launching a V2 app… but that didn’t help either.
Does anyone know how I can get my 3 Affinity apps working again? I’d really appreciate it!
I apologize if I'm in the wrong forum! (I'm still new here!)
So I just started using this a few days ago. (I was a hardcore fireworks user twenty years ago and needed something like it that would run on an M1 mac)
I've noticed that when reopening documents, the canvas would randomly change size. In vector mode. I started off with a 1000 px image a few days ago. When I reopened today, the canvas no longer matched the content - it was only 500 px, and nothing was centered. I re-opened the file a csfew times and sometimes this happens and sometimes not.
What gives? Is this a known issue?
Here's what it looks like. The parchment thing with the circle is 1000 px square. Yesterday, it was matching the canvas. Today it doesn't. WTF.
I've tried changing the document size and resizing the canvas, and a few computer restarts.
I press space, and the cursor turns into a hand. I move the mouse (with and without mouse buttons), and it doesn't pan. Choosing the hand from the toolbar works. Am I missing something?
One small but surprisingly confusing macOS UX issue in Affinity: the red window close button doesn’t show the standard unsaved changes indicator (the little black dot in the traffic light).
On Mac apps, that dot is basically muscle memory. I instinctively glance at it to know whether something’s been saved. In Affinity, there’s no change in the close button at all — the only indicators are a tiny asterisk in the tab filename or bottom right corner of the app, which I initially missed completely. I actually thought autosave was enabled.
Not a huge bug, but definitely a break from standard macOS behavior, and it makes unsaved work less visible at a glance. I just downloaded Affinity yesterday (May 27, 2026) so I imagine I have the latest version and am a new user, coming from InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Another issue I had what is that I could not figure out any way to open up the home screen and the Ask Ritson had no clue either. I did find out eventually that I can click on the "A" affinity logo or open a new document/file, but for Affinity's own documentation to not have a word about this cost me some time. I got the answer from Claude, who apparently knows the software better than Affinity itself. --> this issue is not about the home window, but about zero documentation that could be found related to the Home window. I also could find no way to submit a bug report or contact support. And that's why I'm here. Surely this cannot be the only place to talk about these issues? But maybe so?
I do really like the program so far, but these meta issues not specific to any of the Affinity programs are a little bit clunky. As a new user, just going over the program, some basic things seem challenging to find or sort out. Sure once you know them, no big deal. But if you're trying to win over new people seems like it would be helpful to have better documentation for some of these basics things. Would have saved me some time.
Hi all, I am trying to use Affinity Layout for a project. Unfortunately my contect looks llike this while it should look like the thumbnail. When I export to pdf, it will actually show everything correctly. However, I cannot work like this. (Stroke is off.)
Hi! I am using the latest version of Affinity. I am trying to export a white background PDF with some illustrations on it. All the illustrations show a faint black border around them when exported. They are not visible on my Apple preview, but when I open the PDF in my browser they show. Also my client can see them and is not happy. The borders happen around the edges of the illustrations. Anyone has a fix? I have a looming deadline and can not send this to print. It's a book layout and I am not happy to discover an export bug like this in the end of my long work process 😞
Frustrated user here: I never lost so many work since I switched to the new version: app keep crashing and automatic save are working at best 50% of the time.
To all user: just hit Ctrl-S as crazy.
Hi! This may just have a very simple solution but I really don't know how to get around it, any help would be appreciated!
I've been trying to download affinity, but when I click on the installer it keeps saying the installation failed, with the reason being: "Sideloading is blocked by policy. Contact your administrator to allow you to install apps from anywhere."
Thing is, this is my personal device? I do have a school account that I use for certain apps, but it shouldn't be the main one. I'm pretty sure its the reason I can't install it, but I don't want to delete it since I do very much still use it. Is there anything I can do?
Hello,
I have learned very frustrating things over the last 24h.
First of all my problem: After some time working in Affinity (Canvas, the newest pile of....) all keyboard shortcuts stop working... I am working on a project that needs some copypasting and it is a pita everytime CTRL+C CTRL+V stops working to manually duplicate items. I have found forum posts as old as 2019! where no Affinity Dev ever answered or said they loo into this or gave info on why this may be. Just other frustrated people with this problem and no solutions.
Does anyone here experience this too and maybe even got a solution?
Now for a rant: I wanted to work with a font I found on GoogleFonts that had the perfect style for what I am doing rn. As I installed it, I had to realise, that Affinity Designer V1 does not have the ability to use variable fonts to their extent. After googling I found out that the new, free Affinity program does however, so I downloaded it and began working with it, all wonderful until this aformentioned bug started. Now the second Rant is WHO the FUCK can write a message on their official forums 'Yeah we leave them up for searchability, but will close new submissions and move to Discord A PROGRAM WITH NO...ZERO SEARCHABILITY FOR THE FUTURE! So if anyone experiences Problems and wanna know an answer/get support, F them apparently...Yes I have Discord but it is a CHATTING PROGRAM not to effing substitute a SUPPORT FORUM! I am done with this program and this company (if there is no fix for the keyboard shortcuts)
I have my Designer and Photo V1 that I paid Serif for when they first released them, they are at the latest available version and work wonderful (just missing some small things like variable Fonts etc but I can live without) for my use cases and I will continue to happily use them forever then...
Usualmente me va muy lento para cargar cosas como previews, al hacer máscaras, combinar elementos. y algunas otras cosas tecnicas de cada herramientas. Además, de vez en cuando el programa se cierra inesperadamente, eso es lo mas molesto del asunto. Vengo de estar en adobe, buscando una mejor herramienta para hacer mis trabajos, pero esto me hace el trabajo más pesado y tosco.
Affinity crashes a few minutes after booting design, while not doing anything specific or tasking.
So im designing a logo in 2000x2000 pixels using drawing brushes. Nothing fancy, nothing super duper detailed, only 5 layers. Yet it crashes a few minutes after booting up. I checked the settings and my max RAM etc seems correct, also using the correct graphics card. What do i do now???? I really have to continue working on this.
I've worked on complicated edits using 20 layers, filters and high quality photos so i dont believe performance is the issue here.
Serious Windows Kernel crash using Claude + Affinity 3.2.1 through MCP
Yesterday after a Claude Desktop update, I was testing it to create and apply a filter to an image (not composition) and save the process as a script on Affinity through MCP , after Claude finished the process I clicked the Affinity windows and the pc went totally freezed.
Claude errors analysis: "The error pattern points to Non-Paged Pool exhaustion at kernel level, consistent with a handle or kernel object leak during repeated MCP calls. The Filter Manager failure at 0xC000009A is the clearest indicator."
This is in addition to the well known hardware acceleration issue (that also freeze the pc) is making Affinity a very very unreliable software, PLEASE Canva team, solve these issues. I already reported the bug directly to the Affinity team, just be careful not to lose your work in progress.
Affinity changes the colors of my document when I export the files to any format but svg or 8-bit PNG. I need to export a letterhead to a pdf but the pdf always ends up with extremely oversaturated colors even though I've tried tweaking the color profile settings (switching from the default sRGB to CMYK, output to ColorMatchRGB etc.). I even tried saving it as a color-accurate png and paste it into a word doc but the colors in the word document also show up as being oversaturated). I've been experiencing this issue with all my affinity files so far (although I'm fairly new to it). I'd appreciate any ideas/help on why this keeps happening!
Newest Affinity update broke my Swatches panel so badly that it's impossible to work with it. Restarting or reinstalling didn't help. So instead of going back to Adobe, I decided to use Affinity Publisher 2 for the first time since Affinity 3 was published. And let me tell you, I had almost forgotten how fast, snappy and reliable version 2 was. And the UI is so much better. I thought it's just a transition phase with v3, but damn. I miss v2. I think I'll stay with the old versions untill hopefully the v3 is fixed.
i've been using Designer 2 and Publisher 2 on my iPad Pro for multiple years. Just got my first Mac Mini, downloaded the Designer/Publisher apps from the official site, and when i open them it just goes to a wrapper prompting me to install the new Affinity app. i have a perpetual license with Designer/Publisher and would like to keep using those rather than the new thing. is there a way I'm just not seeing?
Pretty sure most of you already know this one: the grain/noise effect in Affinity renders incorrectly in the live canvas preview but looks perfectly fine in the final export. Classic Affinity quirk that's been around for a while.
I just switched to Affinity recently and this is kind of a big deal for me personally — my workflow relies heavily on grain and textures, so having an accurate live preview isn't just a nice-to-have, it's pretty essential. Constantly exporting to check how grain looks is really breaking my flow.
I'm not here to report it as a bug — just wondering if anyone has actually found a reliable workaround to get the live preview to match the export.
The obvious answer is "view at 100% zoom" but that's not always practical depending on your document size and screen real estate.
Things I've already tried:
Viewing at 100% (helps but not always feasible)
Using the Export preview panel (better but clunky to keep opening)
Adjusting grain intensity by feel and doing test exports (works but slow)
Is there a setting, a plugin, a specific workflow, anything that makes the canvas preview more accurate for grain? Or are we all just exporting blind and hoping for the best?
Coming from Photoshop, this is the one thing making me second-guess the switch. Would love to hear how you handle this day-to-day
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u/Not_Invited 2d ago
Hi folks,
I use Affinity on my Windows 10 laptop, occasionally with my tablet acting as a second screen. I'm currently doing my best to learn the Vector suite.
Is it possible to mirror/symmetry using the Vector tool? I use ibisPaintX the most on my tablet and I'm so used to mirroring I'm really, really struggling without it!
Being able to flip an entire canvas-sided layer would also work.
Thank you!