Mark Ingram
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Hi Matej, we've just been discussing this and have decided to make the change so that right-clicking a brush will not apply it (or any other object that would have a side effect, e.g. swatches). This won't be available in this week's build, but should be available soon. Thanks again for your feedback.
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Can you tell me whether the highlighted option is enabled for you?
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Moving to Questions forum.
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Does it prompt you to load a recovery file when you restarted? Or did you manually load the file?
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Moving to Feature Requests forum.
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Sorry about that, Mark! Don't you get an error report automatically when the user restarts the app after a crash? :o
We do, most of the time. There are things which affect that though, e.g. some crashes don't seem to get caught so we can't write out the data, sometimes people's internet connection's drop during upload, sometime their firewalls deny the connection, etc. Also, a crash report doesn't give us all the information, it tells us where it crashed, but not how we ended up in that state, so it's often useful to have a reproducible version of the crash. We can then log that and use the recipe to confirm we've actually fixed it.
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Thanks Michail, I can reproduce this now, following your video. The bug that we fixed was dragging the popup slider for that control, not the mouse wheel scrolling (I assumed it would fix both parts, but clearly it doesn't). We'll take a look at this and try to sort it out.
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Did you get a crash reference when you restarted the application?
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Good to hear that it's sorted now
And now I have no way of diagnosing the problem :blink:.
I'm guessing that you enabled the "Show Selection in Layers Panel" option in preferences? As there is a known crash with that if you deselect any object.
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Did you get a crash reference the next time you started the application?
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Will my project still open in this new Beta?
You could try opening it and find out :)
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Thanks for your crash report, I can't immediately tell what is causing the crash, but I suspect it's due to an unusual mouse wheel scroll value being sent by the Wacom driver. We will try to replicate the same issue here. Can you tell me what Wacom driver version you currently have installed?
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Thanks for the update number 23!But the problem that I described is still there.
I can't reproduce your problem anymore with build 23. The opacity slider is fast, with mouse wheel scrolling, drag sliding, etc. Can you provide a video demonstrating the problem (in build 23)?
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Also, with the Mac App Store, there is no way to tell Apple that you have made a purchase of the Windows version, in order to download it for free, so there are technical restrictions too.
(Moving to Questions forum)
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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: None
As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.5 cannot be opened in 1.4, which means files created with the Windows beta cannot be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer, instead you will need the latest macOS beta.
We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.Fixes
- Added support for Type 1 fonts
- Added 'Show Selection in Layers Panel' to preferences (see Known Issues below)
- Fixed font transparency incorrectly displaying on the Character panel
- Fixed crash when opening documents due to corrupted Wacom tablet driver (thanks opclinid)
- Fixed Paragraph panel not being correctly initialised when first opened
- Fixed crash at startup (thanks jayweber)
- Fixed Text Styles 'Show in both panels' option not remaining enabled/applied
- Fixed Text Styles not updating when changing language until a ctrl+run
- Fixed slice selection difficulties in Export Persona
- Fixed creating an Export Setup Format Preset not showing its applied after creation
- Fixed guides and slices to reposition when the document is resized
- Fixed slices to rotate with the document
- Fixed Paragraph leading dropdown automatically closes when mousing over
- Fixed editing a swatch showing opacity instead of noise
- Fixed Paragraph panel's spacing Fields not being big enough to fit 'mm'
- Fixed Character panel crash when no document is available
- Fixed renaming brush with Edit Brush dialog open not updating the name
- Fixed Views in View Menu never being populated for Pixel or Export Persona
- Fixed external links from Help not using default browser
- Fixed hardware cutters failing as printing wasn't outputting vector data correctly
- Fixed brush previews being a lot fainter than macOS version
- Fixed Tint value not getting reset to 100% when colour has been changed
- Fixed being able to edit registration colour swatch
- Fixed render problems when docking floating windows
- Fixed swapping between categories changing the colour of waterfalls on fill flyout
- Fixed slow opacity slider on Layers panel
- Fixed holding shift on colour sliders not moving all sliders together (previously was only on RGB sliders)
- Fixed shape flyout displaying in colour even when monochromatic icons are turned on
- Fixed Previous/Next/Rename/Delete View point option always being enabled
- Fixed selecting snapping preset when snapping is disabled not applying preset
- Fixed Constraints panel remaining enabled with no document
Known issues- Enabling 'Show Selection in Layers Panel' will cause a crash when enabled and then making an empty selection
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Hi, it's the Platform Update for Service Pack 1 that is required, not just Service Pack 1.
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Please add the bright color theme as a choice across the whole program and not only some background (meaning leaving the bars dark) some light grey shades would be welcomed, as nice as dark nearly black looks it is a real pain to work with when you suffer from LASIK side effects and your eyes can't focus on dark objects so well...
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Very important, we have a 21st century now and super tiny bars, menus and so on on 2560x1600 or even better on 4k monitors are just impossible for comfortable work.
I know there is option to scale the whole windows but this is the worst scenario as it messes up everything else, many devs still refuse to acknowledge the need for larger interface and scaling whole windows by 200% on 1600p is not cutting maybe on 4k is sort of ok anything in between 100 and 200% is blurred and ugly.
So again please add a scaling option something like 130 - 150% maybe would do it or if you can do it some smooth % size slider.
Thanks
1. In Preferences | User Interface you can adjust the UI Gamma to lighten the UI. Unfortunately there will be no light UI scheme for version 1.x.
2. We are fully DPI aware (my current laptop is 4K, and uses 250% zoom in Windows, my work Desktop is also 4K, but slightly larger, and uses 200% zoom) and scale correctly across all monitors. This is the best way of scaling the application's UI. If your other apps don't scale, that is unfortunately an issue for the developers of those applications.
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Please add the bright color theme as a choice across the whole program and not only some background (meaning leaving the bars dark) some light grey shades would be welcomed, as nice as dark nearly black looks it is a real pain to work with when you suffer from LASIK side effects and your eyes can't focus on dark objects so well...
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Guess what, there are STILL no arrowhead line styles. Unbelievable and unacceptable.
How is that unbelievable or unacceptable? There are lots of features in 1.5, and they were prioritised higher than arrow heads. If we had added arrow heads at the expense of another feature, chances are, other customers would be calling it unbelievable or unacceptable that their favourite feature wasn't implemented.
We are trying hard to add useful features that our customers suggest, but they all take time, and as such some things will be done before others. Sorry you're disappointed.
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By disabling Aero, you disable Desktop Window Composition, which reverts to an alternative display driver (effectively rendering your GPU pointless - unless you are running full screen applications, such as games).
The beta is for us to discover bugs and performance problems in the product before release, but we know that disabling DWM (i.e. Aero) causes bugs and performance problems (that are out of our hands), so we really don't want to spend our time trying to investigate problems when it turns out it's due to this alternative display driver.
The original beta didn't require Aero because I didn't put the check in until later (after we discovered these problems).
Clipboard not entirely cross-app friendly
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We add SVG to the clipboard in formats that Inkscape and Illustrator can understand (as well as PDF). We would need to know what clipboard formats Freehand accepted in order to add a compatible format.