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                  Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher 2.5

   Agen Schmitz

   Serif has updated [1]Affinity Designer, [2]Affinity Photo, and
   [3]Affinity Publisher to version 2.5 with support for variable fonts
   that generally let you adjust the width and weight axes and possibly
   italic, optical size, and slant as well. All three apps now enable you
   to add QR codes using the new QR Code Tool on the shape tools flyout,
   set any of your grid settings as the default for new documents, and
   convert the typography dialog from a pop-up into a panel so it can dock
   more easily. Affinity Designer brings a new Stroke Width Tool that
   gives you an in-document way of editing the pressure profile of any
   curve and improves the Pencil Tool for smoother results. The updates
   also address a bug that caused PSD files to fail to load and cause high
   RAM usage, resolve an issue that caused strokes with a pressure profile
   to be expanded with the wrong width, and rectify an error when
   exporting a PDF with file hyperlinks. (Affinity Designer, $69.99 new;
   Affinity Photo, $69.99; Affinity Publisher, $69.99; [4]all three are
   available separately or together for $164.99 from Serif and are also
   available individually from the [5]Mac App Store; free updates, various
   sizes, [6]release notes, macOS 10.15+)

References

   1. https://affinity.serif.com/designer/
   2. https://affinity.serif.com/photo/
   3. https://affinity.serif.com/publisher/
   4. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/affinity-pricing/
   5. https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/serif-labs/id536107177
   6. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/204016-faq-25-release-notes-improvements-and-major-fixes/

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