adirusf

Less than that if things go to plan

I think you can start counting the weeks now, rather than months (and still not run out of fingers)

This issue has been addressed in the current beta build. Thanks for reporting this.

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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 masks failing to show correct preview  Fixed crash at startup Old documents with white balance, hsl, selective colour and vibrance adjustments should now render the same as before (in a legacy compatibility mode) Improved layout of Float All Fixed Layers panel to allow scroll while click-dragging to move layers  Fixed potential crash when adding a HSL Layer adjustment Removed excess space after raster format descriptions in open dialog filter Removed EIP from supported filetypes (because it isn't) Fixed import of ABR brushes with random controllers Added Rasterise to Mask to context menus Updated Combine Operation's tooltip Fixed crash when dragging Stroke on Appearance panel  Changed Appearance panel add Stroke/Fill and Delete buttons to be disabled with multiple selections  1.7.0.331 release notes

In Affinity Designer βeta 1.7.0. you can use the Transform separately option.

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 support for HDR monitors (new HDR options in 32-bit Preview panel, now visible by default in Photo) Fixed stroke phase failing to work when adjusting dashed line Fixed creating palette from CMYK images imports as RGB Fixed brush body option not reflecting the correct value Fixed Flip/Rotate toolbar icons not correctly reflecting the state they're in Updated Welcome Screen Fixed 'Open folder in Explorer' not working with special characters Fixed Expression trig functions to use degrees by default (same as 1.6) - in previous 1.7 patches, angles had become radians Fixed failure to report errors when exporting single items Improved handling of non-displayable characters (control and formatting characters could be presented due to copy+paste from web pages, etc.) Fixed drag and drop not honouring the insertion target Added support for TIFFs with old-style JPEG compression Fixed colour picker clamping values in 32-bit documents Fixed crash when converting documents to 32-bit Select tool will share common options with related tools Added option for continuing the selection when adding new curves in Pen tool Renamed "Show Rotation Centre" => "Enable Transform Origin" Added User Rotation Centre to Node tool transform mode Changed "Add to Curves" mode, to clear other selected objects when closing a curve Fixed Colour panel's Lab opponent sliders to go from 0 to 32768 rather than 32896 Fixed inability to create unbounded colour values on advanced colour dialog Fixed Character Variants failing to show up in Typography panel Changed default shortcuts for Precise Increase/Decrease Leading (to avoid conflicting with Windows default text editing shortcuts) Fixed ability to switch to a tool in a different Persona by cycling tool shortcuts Fixed poor quality app logo in menu bar Use cornered curves for snapping bounds calculations Point Transform tool now ignores logical groups for snapping purposes Added support for 16-bit CMYK TIFF Improved handling of document save failure during close (previously a failure to save during close would be ignored) Removed Delete key from list of available keys for shortcuts (Delete is always delete) Fixed Grid colours not being saved correctly Fixed thumbnail viewer (thumbnail previews should now work again in Windows Explorer) Fixed grid system failing to work in anything other than pixels Fixed Add swatch from Fill as Global only works once Renamed "Create Colour Chord" => "Add Chord to Swatch" Fixed crash if paragraph panel undocked in non English and DPI is scaled Fixed crash on Reset Studio with no document open Fixed Layers panel drag indicator when not using small thumbnail sizes Fixed crash converting colours of embedded document Fixed crash opening a RAW file Fixed Erase, Blur and Sharpen Brushes are missing Symmetry, Mirror and Lock options Changed Lock Colourspace on the Colour Panel to be on by default Fixed Shape preset thumbnails being clipped in Light UI Improved Transform handle hit testing Fixed errors caused by attempting to save a file to a destination with no available space Fixed Develop Basic panel Output Profiles listing 16-bit profiles when developing to 32-bit Removed Twirl radius limit when using textbox Fixed Filters don't render until you move any of the sliders Added Rasterise & Trim to Layers panel context menu Fixed some inconsistencies in the Procedural Texture dialog Updated image metadata support Fixed Load LUT button can be pressed again while the Load LUT File Dialog is still open Fixed error when renaming a Macro category to an existing name Updated LUT Adjustment to support additional file types Fixed context toolbar shuffling when dragging Crop area in Crop tool Improved the Bilateral filter (should help to preserve edges and reduce colour distortion) Improved noise reduction of 32-bit images (should avoid bleeding across very high contrast edges) Fixed Export Persona to render vectors as raster Fixed Remove Lens Vignette crash with specific DNG Fixed Panasonic GH5S loading as pink Updated Stock panel Fixed crash creating a panorama Fixed Crop Tool Absolute Size Units are reset when entering a value Fixed ORF files opening in black and white Added progress to Merge Visible 1.7.0.293 release note

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 support for HDR monitors (new HDR options in 32-bit Preview panel, now visible by default in Photo) Fixed stroke phase failing to work when adjusting dashed line Fixed creating palette from CMYK images imports as RGB Fixed brush body option not reflecting the correct value Fixed Flip/Rotate toolbar icons not correctly reflecting the state they're in Updated Welcome Screen Fixed 'Open folder in Explorer' not working with special characters Fixed Expression trig functions to use degrees by default (same as 1.6) - in previous 1.7 patches, angles had become radians Fixed failure to report errors when exporting single items Improved handling of non-displayable characters (control and formatting characters could be presented due to copy+paste from web pages, etc.) Fixed drag and drop not honouring the insertion target Added support for TIFFs with old-style JPEG compression Fixed colour picker clamping values in 32-bit documents Fixed crash when converting documents to 32-bit Select tool will share common options with related tools Added option for continuing the selection when adding new curves in Pen tool Renamed "Show Rotation Centre" => "Enable Transform Origin" Added User Rotation Centre to Node tool transform mode Changed "Add to Curves" mode, to clear other selected objects when closing a curve Fixed Colour panel's Lab opponent sliders to go from 0 to 32768 rather than 32896 Fixed inability to create unbounded colour values on advanced colour dialog Fixed Character Variants failing to show up in Typography panel Changed default shortcuts for Precise Increase/Decrease Leading (to avoid conflicting with Windows default text editing shortcuts) Fixed ability to switch to a tool in a different Persona by cycling tool shortcuts Fixed poor quality app logo in menu bar Use cornered curves for snapping bounds calculations Point Transform tool now ignores logical groups for snapping purposes Added support for 16-bit CMYK TIFF Improved handling of document save failure during close (previously a failure to save during close would be ignored) Removed Delete key from list of available keys for shortcuts (Delete is always delete) Fixed Grid colours not being saved correctly Fixed thumbnail viewer (thumbnail previews should now work again in Windows Explorer) Fixed grid system failing to work in anything other than pixels Fixed Add swatch from Fill as Global only works once Renamed "Create Colour Chord" => "Add Chord to Swatch" Fixed crash if paragraph panel undocked in non English and DPI is scaled Fixed crash on Reset Studio with no document open Fixed Layers panel drag indicator when not using small thumbnail sizes Fixed crash converting colours of embedded document Fixed crash opening a RAW file Fixed Erase, Blur and Sharpen Brushes are missing Symmetry, Mirror and Lock options Changed Lock Colourspace on the Colour Panel to be on by default Fixed Shape preset thumbnails being clipped in Light UI Improved Transform handle hit testing Fixed errors caused by attempting to save a file to a destination with no available space Artboard positions are now shown relative to the spread Fixed Delete button on Appearance Panel sometimes disabled Fixed View Mode to reset when switching documents Fixed Point Transform panel to allow negative numbers for rotation Changed Arrowheads to be grouped Added missing Constraints panel min/max fit tooltips Fixed asset thumbnails of some drag / drop files Added ability to import TIFF assets Asset names now use filenames by default Fixed crash when deleting fills from the Appearance panel  1.7.0.293 release notes
 

@walt.farrell , @Mithferion, @MickRose
@Arun Sarkar, @Uwe367, @Ken Cope @Aammppaa, @adirusf, @Joachim_L, @StuartRc
Build 326 initially released in this thread has been withdrawn
Please download the replacement build 330 from the link above

Due to an issue discovered with the management of placed documents e.g here, here and the fact that document corruption can occur, we have chosen to remove the download links to Build 330. We will post another update to rectify this issue as soon as possible.
If you have already downloaded 330 you may wish to consider reverting to Build 312, but be aware that due to new functionality in the later build, documents saved in 330 may not load in 312.
Thank you for helping us find this issue.
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Please note Build 330 fixes the following issues in Build 326. Build 326 has been withdrawn and we encourage you to update if you are using it.
- Converting an Embedded resource to Linked could delete the original resource
- Replacing Image on a placed PDF could leave Resource Manager in an inconsistent state
- Crash copying and pasting embedded document resources
Thank you for reporting these.
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10  (>=1607)
We are pleased to announce Affinity Publisher build 330 is now available as a manual download from the link above. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcement thread
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 where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 
We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread.
Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum. 
Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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Fixes and Improvements 
A Note about Linked Images
Backing data and hi-res previews are now discarded for linked images when the containing document is saved, resulting in a drop in Publication file size. Please note that unfortunately this will not apply for linked images in existing documents, they will have to be replaced in order to see an effect. When a document with linked images is opened you may now momentarily see a low-res preview before the full image is loaded and 'pops in'. This is expected behaviour.
Other Fixes
Menus / Studio
(Win) Docking Pinning Panel to the left/right causes crash on next run up
Deleting global colours could cause crash
(Mac) OS accented colour set to Graphite now works correctly for font controls etc
Fixes for Expression Parser
Tools
Fixed selection of Picture Frames from Masters
Vector cropped object in Picture Frame now scales correctly
Text / Tables
Fixed noticeable text lag under some circumstances with Character Panel visible
Fixed auto-correct crash e.g. typing (a)
(MacOS) Ctrl+Alt+Tab in a table inserts a tab and switches document
Prevented deletion of entire cell range with non contiguous selection
On converting a shape to a text frame the context toolbar now shows the correct text tools
Fix for Find / Replace All when found ranges were adjacent
Resources
Improved locating missing resources on file load
Fix for Resource Manager incorrectly reporting resources as modified under some circumstances
DocX improvements - fixes for lists, colours and paragraph run properties
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 312

Any news as to when the next Beta update for Windows will be released? It's been a while.

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download DMG: Download
Auto-update: Available.
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest beta of Affinity Photo 1.7 for macOS.
Photo 1.7 is a (very) significant change to the currently shipping 1.6 version, so, as ever, I would strongly urge users to avoid the 1.7 beta for critical work. This is a pre-release build of 1.7 - we will release more builds before 1.7 ships. Things will be broken in this build - please use it to explore the new features and not for real work.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
It’s also worth noting that we aren’t done yet - we are still working through reported bugs from previous releases and hope to fix as many as possible before the final release of 1.7. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcment thread
With all that said, we hope that you will enjoy the new capabilities introduced in this release and we look forward to any and all feedback you give to us.
Many thanks (as always),
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes This Build
 
- New “Lens Correction” filter - apply lens correction from the built-in lens database.
- New welcome screen layout and all new samples.
- Option to prevent monitor tone-mapping in EDR mode.
- Fix artefacts in live Clarity filter.
- Fix copy & paste of 32bit content.
- Fix MetalView memory leaks.
- Further flickering fixes in MetalView.
- Metadata improvements.
- Performance improvement with multiple GPUs.
- General Metal compute performance improvements.
- Fixed Panasonic GH5S RAW.
- Changed EDR clipping warning to mid-SDR-grey.
- Fixed artefacts with selections.
- Localisation improvements.
- Numerous other small fixes.
 
Changes Since 1.6 Release
 
EDR
- Added support for EDR displays to Photo. When editing a 32bit document, enabling EDR will switch macOS into a mode whereby it will increase the backlight intensity and darken screen content - increasing the dynamic range available when rendering content.
Performance
- The core processing engine in Affinity Photo has been rewritten to take advantage of the powerful discrete AMD GPUs in modern Mac hardware. It will now automatically use any compatible discrete GPU, alongside the Intel GPU support present in 1.6. Typically this improves compositing / editing performance by at least 1000%. Performance when using integrated Intel GPUs has also been massively improved.
- External GPUs (eGPU) are also supported - including hot-plug-and-unplug support.
- Multiple GPUs are supported - if you have more than 1 GPU (ie. Intel + AMD in MacBook Pro, or Intel + eGPU in other Macs) Photo will use them all, at the same time, to improve performance. There is no limit to the number of GPUs which can be used.
Brushes
- Photo 1.7 introduces a new “sub-brush” mechanism, developed in conjunction with Paolo Limoncelli (DAUB® Brushes). This exciting feature allows any brush to have a list of other brushes attached which will draw at the same time. Each sub-brush has a fully separate and customisable set of dynamics. You can control when the sub-brushes are drawn and how they blend with the main brush.
- The brush engine in Photo has been rewritten to use the new GPU architecture described above. With GPU support, even huge brushes with 1% spacing will perform well. All brushes / brush tools are accelerated.
- Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported - including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring. We have more symmetry features on the way - so stay tuned during the beta process.
- Wet edges and accumulation are now available on colour brushes and brushes with HSL variance.
- Brushes with multiple nozzle textures have always chosen the nozzle at random. In 1.7, the nozzle choice has a dynamic controller and ramp for greater control.
- All brush tools now support left and right arrow keys for rotation - a common feature request.
- Allow Ctrl key to be held when typing numbers in a brush tool (will change flow instead of opacity).
RAW
- The RAW processing engine in Photo has been rewritten - producing better results and improved performance. It also takes advantage of the GPU architecture changes described above.
- RAW files now load much more quickly - especially if you have a compatible GPU.
- Reimplemented support for XTrans sensors.
- The denoise algorithm has been rewritten. It produces better results and takes advantage of the new GPU architecture.
- Hot pixel removal is now automatically performed by the Serif Labs engine.
- Profiled lens correction are more stable, apply more quickly, and can be toggled in the Develop UI.
- The histogram in the Develop persona is now presented in the output colour space - as opposed to always being linear.
- Develop now respects the output profile when previewing.
- Added support for CR3 RAW when using the Core Image engine.
- Show which autofocus rectangles were in focus and which were selected by the camera (yellow, green respectively).
- A large number of new cameras are supported for RAW development (we will provide a list of the new supported cameras as soon as possible!).
- Automatically fall back to Core Image for cameras which are not supported by Serif Labs.
Filters
- New “Procedural Texture” filter with advanced presets support.
- New “Voronoi” filter.
- Denoise, Clarity and Shadows / Highlights filters have been rewritten (using technology from the Develop Persona).
- More filters are now available as Live Filters - including the new Procedural Texture filter.
- Live filters have been rewritten to improve performance - especially when multiple filters are used in a document.
- Improved Polar to Rectangular and Rectangular to Polar filters.
- Added round dot type to the halftone filter.
- Bilateral blur accuracy improvements.
Adjustments
- The HSL adjustment layer has been rewritten. It now supports custom hue ranges, a new algorithm, new UI and picker controls.
- The Levels adjustment layer now supports output levels - a common feature request.
- The White Balance adjustment layer has been rewritten.
- The Selective Colour adjustment layer has been rewritten.
- PSD import / export of adjustments has been improved.
- The Vibrance adjustment layer has been rewritten.
- The Recolour adjustment layer has gained a lightness slider.
Layers
- Layers page - added option for transparent background for thumbnails.
- Layers page - added multiple thumbnail size options.
- Layers page - added ability to tag layers with a colour - including PSD round-trip.
- Allow adding an empty group from the Layer menu.
- New “Duplicate Selection” item in Layer menu (old behaviour). Duplicate now duplicate the whole layer ignoring pixel selection.
- Alt / Option is now used to make a pixel selection from layer luminance. You can now also hold shift to add the result to the current selection.
- Hide / Show / Show All Layers options in layers menu.
- Ability to either rasterise or rasterise and trim a layer. Previously recorded macros will trim.
 
Selections
- Significant improvements to selection refinement.
- When using selection tools with no pixel selection, default to New / Add as appropriate.
- Added “Alpha Similarity” to Select Sampled Colour tool.
Tools
- Grouped tool shortcuts now default to needing the shift key held to cycle (option in preferences).
- The Crop tool has been rewritten - it now supports resolution changes, absolute pixel size and has a much improved preset mechanism.
- The Sponge Brush tool now gives more correct / pleasant results.
- Allow brush rotate / size key changes while dragging.
- Added a “Reveal Canvas” checkbox to the crop tool - defaults to off.
- Added new “Transform object separately” mode into Move tool.
- A general tools overhaul has been performed - providing editing of grids, guides, page origin, across multiple tools (not just in the Move tool)
- Patch tool now supports arrow keys for rotate / scale.
- All brush tools can now be axis constrained once brush has started - not just the pixel tool.
History
- “Alternate futures” for document history have been added. Traditionally, if you roll back the undo history then do something else all your changes after that point are lost. Photo will now display a small branch icon in the history tab when you do this. Pressing that button will cycle between all the different “futures” after that history entry - meaning you will never lose work you have done.
- The History page now has an “advanced” mode - which shows thumbnails and time info.
I/O
- HEIF images can now be loaded directly into Photo. If they contain a depth map, this will also be loaded as a second layer. Because depth maps are typically lower resolution than the main image, optional “smart” upsampling will be performed.
- TIFF export now has user selectable compression method.
- Added support for 12bit TIFF files.
- Introduced new metadata mining - completely rewritten to improve performance, flexibility and correctness.
- Metadata is now dynamically synchronised with your document - so if you resize then export, the values will be correct.
- Added Focal Length to metadata summary view.
- Added a button in general preferences to open a folder from which Photo will read LensFun-style XML files - if users wish to add / experiment with their own lens profiles.
- Support 16bit CMYK TIFF import.
General
- New ability to control how macros are scaled / aligned when playing back.
- Added an “Assets” panel to Photo.
- New cube setup mode for grids.
- Add “Fill with Primary / Secondary” to the Edit menu for fast access.
- The batch process dialog now fully supports expressions for height and width - available constants are “w”, “h” and “dpi”.
- “Lock guides” added to menus.
- Support for drag dropping .afstyles into Photo.
- Support for drag dropping .afpalette into Photo.
- Photo now supports custom document presets - a popular feature request.
- A new blend mode - Linear Burn - has been added.
- New “Move inside / outside” commands have been added - useful for quick operations on clipping masks etc.
- The Hard Mix blend mode has been improved.
- New provider options have been added to the stock panel - support for Unsplash, Pexels and Pixabay. All of these providers offer full-resolution stock imagery which is free to use.
- Numerous text improvements have been made - including new features.
- Significant stability improvements when working on non-local files (network shares, USB drives, etc.).
- Significant PDF import / export improvements and fixes.
 - Numerous other bug fixes - too many to list!

We are making CPU performance improvements in the future 1.7 build at the moment we only use the GPU for displaying the document to the screen, we have a 1.7 beta available for both Designer and Photo if you would like to try them 

Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10  (>=1607)
We are pleased to announce Affinity Publisher build 312 is now available as a manual download from the link above. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcement thread
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 where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 
We hope you enjoy the product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread.
Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum. 
Many thanks for your continued feedback.
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Fixes and Improvements 
Menus / Studio
Stock Page improvements
(Mac) Removed default Convert to Curves shortcut to prevent accidental conversion while typing
(Win) Added 'Create Style' to the Edit Menu
(Win) Removed Create New from Clipboard shortcut
Loading / Saving
Fixed failure to save document after arrowheads applied and reset to 'None'
Import / Export
Fix for PDF Import crash when selecting 'Favour editable text over fidelity'
Added support for TIFFs with old-style JPEG compression
RAW files can now be placed using File > Place. To fall in line with the other apps
Prevent multiple spurious warnings when placing several files at once
(Mac) Fix for setting of 'Scale with Object' affecting Print output
DocX
Fixed crashes importing bogus DocX files
Added Drag Drop of DocX to populate Text Frames
Fixed / added DocX import features including:
- Formatting Fixes, leading fixes
- Negative right indent
- Basic group support
- Linked text frames
- Paragraph attribute priority fixes
- Incorrect object alignment
- Gradient fixes 
- Table borders, vertical cell alignment
- Documents without styles (created by PDF converter)
Images / Resources
Added per axis DPI and Scale controls on the Image Context bar DPI / Scale dropdown
Fixed and renamed the '1:1' button to reset the aspect ratio and scale to original size
Cropped Image conversion to Picture Frame handled better
Fix for undo of Set K-Only
(Win) Improved locate procedure for missing linked images
(Win) Fix for auto-update of linked documents not working
Text
Fixed crash pasting text with the Move tool active
Fixed OpenType lookup rules which resulting in features not being found dependent on 'Typography Script' etc
Hyperlink attributes are now always stripped when creating document text defaults
Improvements to Autoflow when overset text is involved
Improvements to Autoflow when shaped frames are involved
Pinning Panel - 'Advance' has been renamed 'Offset'
Pinning Panel - Added Top and Bottom borders for objects pinned inline
Scaled pinned nodes now remember their original scale and restore it when unpinned or unscaled
Fix for unwanted text scaling when text objects were pinned
Can now only pin one node at a time, fixes crash attempting to pin multiple
Allow direct selection of pinned objects that are the children of stories in master page frames
Fixed crash pasting text with pinned text objects (with pinned text objects)
Fixed crash pasting index mark into Find and Replace. Currently unsupported in Find and Replace
(Mac, Pre-Mojave) Pinning Panel - Fixed white background
(Win) Fix for inoperative Text Context bar controls with selections including pinned images
(Win) Fixed Scale capping in Pinning panel
Tables
Resizing a table causes the headers to become mismatched
Indexes
Improved index sorting for topics that don't start with alphabetic characters
(Mac) Fixed Index Panel Separator field drop arrow menu
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 305

Was about to post a serious drawing lag using my Wacom tablet, but apparently has now been fixed on this release. You're on fire! 

Thanks for this! The new node transformation tools are amazing.

When you drag it to the bottom keep to the left. 
Dragging right nests inside the w. 
Left side will keep it outside the w. 
Alternatively use the keyboard shortcut control + shift + down, or the arrange menu options. 

Added a PDF tutorial describing some of the methods to create vector brushes from a personal perspective.
Some of the techniques are a bit unconventional.. but I hope you find it useful!
Created using AD and APu (1.7 beta)
Sample pages as below:



 
Create Vector Brush_06.pdf

1. Open the cat photo. It will show in the Layers panel as ‘(Pixel) Background’.
2. Place (‘Commands > Place’) the astronaut picture on top.
3. Lower the opacity of the astronaut layer so you can see the cat.
4. Resize and move the astronaut pic so the cat’s head fills the helmet.
5. Set the opacity of the astronaut layer back to 100% and rasterize it.
6. Switch to the Selections Persona.
7. Sweep inside the visor area with the Smart Selection Brush Tool.
8. Back in the Pixel Persona, select both layers.
9. Long-press on the canvas and choose ‘Duplicate’ from the menu bar.
10. In the Layers panel, tap on the cat’s face layer.
11. Drag the cat’s face layer above the astronaut layer.
12. Hide the top (visor) layer to reveal the cat’s face.
13. Switch back to the Selections Persona.
14. Subtract the background fragments from the selection.
15. Back in the Pixel Persona, long-press and choose ‘Duplicate’.
16. Delete the original cat’s face layer to discard the unwanted background.
17. Long-press on the canvas and choose ‘Deselect’.
18. Unhide the top (visor) layer and reduce its opacity to reveal the cat’s face.
 

Not selecting all of the background for deletion, perhaps? 

On Mac GPU is utilized more widely, but on PC everything is done on CPU with GPU just handling the draw to screen.
Also: the forum search is your friend - there is so much knowledge on the forum that it is always worth searching

Hi,
I would like to suggest you to allow negative values for the bleed as an option. I am used to add bleed to the page size and negative bleed will just do the job for me.
Yes, I know that I can add guidelines or adjust the margins, but this is much simplier to do. Bleeds and margins can be visible at the same time on the page and easier to work.

The way it works now is not the way it is supposed to work. It is supposed to reduce the document size; it's a bug that it doesn't. We're not intending a "tracked" feature.
This hasn't been fixed already for internal reasons I can't explain here, but we've not forgotten about it.

hi,
recently a group of us, AP users, in "Affinity Photo - Tutorials" facebook group are discussing making a so-called FB 3D photos for which you need a photo and it's depth-map simultaneously uploaded where FB combines them in a 3D effect photo.
so anyone trying this will have a really great help from depth-maps generated in a focus merge process only if we can save/export them in some photo format (Helicon and Zerene uses TIFF)
I think it will be a very small effort from Serif developers as depth map is already there, just save it somewhere.

 

If you Cut the item (Edit > Cut) then select the layer in the layers panel of the layer you want it in front of, then do a paste, by default it will be pasted just in front of that layer

@John T
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  
The official Affinity Publisher video tutorials will be release when the software is released (all the current ones will be replaced). They are unlikely to appear before it is for sale.