Mark Ingram
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8 minutes ago, dominik said:
Thank you for an unexpected new beta on a sunday 🙂
The new mouse wheel rotation is great.
Unfortunately the 'CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+R' didn't make it into AD. It works in APh, though.
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It is in there.
I wonder if you have any customisations it may be preventing the new default from appearing. We should look into that as a separate issue. Can you look in your Preferences | Shortcuts, then Designer | View, and Reset those shortcuts (be aware this will erase and reset any existing shortcuts, you may want to copy your beta folder in %APPDATA% first).
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12 minutes ago, AiDon said:
Hardware Acceleration still crashes with NVIDIA GPU (GTX1050) Unhandled exception at 0x00007FFBAA6653F8 (nvwgf2umx.dll) at 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow (parameters: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000006008229000).
(Original link for ref: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/124272-opencl-v190734/)
That's interesting, as your hardware is exactly the same as mine. Are they the latest drivers?
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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store
As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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 Studio Presets
- Fixed Contour and Corner tool radius context toolbar options showing in pixels
- Fixed filter effects rendering
- Added ability to rotate view around mouse with Alt+MouseWheel. Shift+Alt+MouseWheel will rotate around the centre. Holding Ctrl at the same time will increase rotation speed. Added Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R as new default shortcut for resetting the view rotation.
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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features, performance, fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store
As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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
- Improved Studio Presets
- Improved hardware acceleration
- Fixed hardware acceleration to fall back to software rendering more reliably under NVIDIA GPUs
- Fixed filter effects rendering
- Added ability to rotate view around mouse with Alt+MouseWheel. Shift+Alt+MouseWheel will rotate around the centre. Holding Ctrl at the same time will increase rotation speed. Added Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R as new default shortcut for resetting the view rotation.
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5 minutes ago, thomaso said:
@Mark Ingram Isn't the use of mouse + tablet pen like on a laptop the use of mouse + build-in trackpad? Do you also expect these to disable each other?
On a Macbook both work well together in Affinity, I can move the cursor with one device (e.g. finger on trackpad) + with the other in different and/or same and/or conflicting directions without unexpected result. For instance move vertically with one + horizontally with the other device simultaneously, or move with one + hold-click with the other. Even moving in opposite (> conflicting) directions doesn't cause an issue but simply might occur as not moving, as expected. Also with two finger actions on trackpad + according mouse action (like zoom or pan) which works simultaneously with both devices as expected.
Both a trackpad and mouse provide delta movements, so alternating between them won't make a difference to the experience. With a Wacom pen, the position is absolute, so using the mouse you would never be able to "move" the cursor, as the Wacom pen will always set the absolute position of the cursor.
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I think this is because we look for the actual character, not the physical key (which is why the shortcut stops working when changing keyboard layout).
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4 hours ago, Frozen Death Knight said:
Forgot to add sticky settings to that feedback. I use some specific settings for some tools that support sticky settings that get remembered on start-up, so having Studio Presets remember the sticky settings would be another fantastic feature! You would even be allowed to customise your sticky settings based on individual presets, thus making it extra convenient when doing very specific types of work. ^^
That might be more difficult as the workspace layout is unrelated to sticky settings...
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1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:
I thought the theory was that the initial release got enough negative comments from users that the developer was going to rework it, and that Designer and Publisher wouldn't get it until the rework was available.
Yep, and the new version is available in the latest build of Photo.
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12 minutes ago, hoch said:
This same action, switching on and off a level layers, consumes a lot of memory.
I've just tried this, a 20MP image with a Levels Adjustment, enabling and disabling the Levels Adjustment doesn't change the memory usage. Could you possibly provide a video, or some other steps to reproduce?
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43 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
I don't see it, either.
Doh! It got added to Photo only. No good reason, should be in Designer too. Will fix for next build.
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Can you give this a try in the latest beta?
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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store
As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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
- Fixed margin fills not being applied
- Fixed drag and drop to place deselecting the new layer
- Fixed hang when font combo contains fonts we can't render and can't find a valid match for
- Fixed Contour tool Radius text box capping the entry to 50px
- Fixed Contour tool Radius always being displayed in pixels
- Fixed Layer panel Auto-Scroll option not being remembered
- Fixed AltGr+Tab breaking shortcuts
- Added Flood Select tool to Pixel workspace
- Changed non-pixel aligned Artboards to automatically align (fixes unexpected dimensions, and blurred exports)
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Added Studio Presets and associated Manager (View | Studio Presets)(Coming soon)
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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: New features, performance, fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store
As this is a beta 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 may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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
- Improved hardware acceleration
- Fixed crash when right clicking a spare channel alpha, and creating a mask layer
- Fixed drag and drop to place deselecting the new layer
- Added Duplicate spare channel
- Fixed hang when font combo contains fonts we can't render and can't find a valid match for
- Fixed Layer panel Auto-Scroll option not being remembered
- Fixed AltGr+Tab breaking shortcuts
- Added Convert to Text Path menu item
- Added Studio Presets and associated Manager (View | Studio Presets)
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Thanks @krbo, that's interesting. The benchmark suggests your performance is 7X better on GPU than CPU, so I'm surprised you're seeing much worse performance in the real world.
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13 hours ago, krbo said:
Just to inform you that my setup of Win10 2004 build 19041.508 on internal Intel HD 630 (I5-7500 CPU) and OpenCL is a complete disaster.
Unusable at all - GPU enabled slows a lot even RAW opening (from 1s to even 10s), simple mouse wheel zooming jumps, jerks, hickups, block and even hangs APVideo drivers are latest from Intel (have a Intel utility to watch updates)
No panic here as this is a first test of HW acceleration of Win AP version, keep the good work!
Interesting - what are your benchmark results?
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13 hours ago, TEcHNOpls said:
I got it to hung a few times today, also, noticed there's some canvas rendering corruption happening from time to time.
Update: I have a file that keeps on locking AP on save with a simple reproduction scenario. I even updated GFX drivers and restarted Windows to check if id does hang AP and it does.
Great - can you share the file?
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Thanks - sounds like a bug then, you probably had some keyboard shortcut modifications stored, so didn't load in the new default. We'll look at that.