New features in v1.9/1.10

System, performance and compatibility:

• Improved performance (from v1.10) with:
  • Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow)
  • Placed images
  • Embedded documents
  • Low-memory conditions

Solid graphic design:

• Professional object control
  • Select multiple objects by type, color, stroke weight, transparency, and more
  • Contour Tool
• Powerful layers management
  • Use global colors in Gradient Map adjustments
  • Divide blend mode
  • Per-object hierarchical antialiasing

Professional color support

• Global colors
• Spot colors
• Overprinting

Text and typography

• Improved IME text editing for JA and ZH-HANS languages (from v1.10)
• Added support for emojis (from v1.10)

Painting

• General
  • Sort brushes by date in Brushes Studio (from v1.9.2)
• Pixel (Raster) only
  • Create image brushes from any pixel selection
  • Create intensity brushes from any mask's pixel selection

Pixel Persona tools

• Pixel selection tools
  • Elliptical Marquee Tool draws from center

Design Aids

• Snap to pixel selection bounds

Interoperability/peripherals:

• In-app registration
• Content sync of Affinity Store purchases
• Mouse, trackpad and Magic Keyboard support
• External screen support

Import, Export and Printing

• JPEG-XR 101010 import
• Export Preview which updates to changed settings
• SVG import/export improvements (from v1.10)