Affinity 1.9 Expands Designer, Publisher and Photo

Affinity 1.9 adds contour and selection tools, data merge, PDF passthrough, non-destructive Liquify, path text and linked layers.

Archive republication: This article was originally published on 30 March 2021. It has been translated into English and lightly updated for clarity while preserving the original reporting and context.

Affinity 1.9

Serif released Affinity 1.9 with updates across Affinity Designer, Publisher and Photo.

New Features

Affinity Designer gained a Contour Tool and a Select Same command. Affinity Publisher added data merge and PDF passthrough, while Affinity Photo introduced non-destructive Liquify layers, text on a path and linked layers.

Availability

The historical feature overview was published on the Affinity website. Verify current document compatibility and test PDF, linked-layer and colour-management behaviour before production use.

Affinity 1.9 is here!