AdamW

Thanks. The link has now been updated.

Status: Beta Purpose: Updates and Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Windows Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Available Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.4.687 is now available as a download from the link above. 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. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. --- Improvements and Fixes - Stability and Performance improvements Further fixes, made since the release of 1.8.3, are listed in earlier 1.8.4 betas --- To be notified about all future Windows beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

Status: Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Available --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.4.687 is now available as a download from the link above. 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. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. --- Improvements and Fixes - macOS Big Sur operation and visual style improvements- Stability and Performance improvements Further fixes, made since the release of 1.8.3, are listed in earlier 1.8.4 betas --- To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

Status: Beta Purpose: Updates and Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Windows Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not Available Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.4.663 is now available as a download from the link above. 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. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. --- Improvements and Fixes General Fixed recent regression when saving Linked Image placeholders which was causing large document files Recoloured K-only images with transparency lose their transparency (Win) Can now import .afassets file via drag drop Text Avoid generating infinite filler text when leading is zero Further improvements for ideographic line breaks, mainly for quote-marks Allow OpenType kerning between glyphs with different settings (if they are the same font and size) Fixed 'Indent To Here' not working if lines are broken by drop cap or wrap shape Fixes for line-breaker around Fixed Spaces Import / Export IDML Import - Text frame corners are now scaled correctly IDML Import - Fixed instances where text wrap path could fail to import, or be scaled incorrectly IDML Import - Generic OpenType features not being imported from IDML file IDML Import - Effects settings not scaled correctly on master page items IDML Import - En-Space in numbered list imported as a 0 IDML Import - Elements could be positioned incorrectly in some instances IDML Import - Question mark in file path breaks link during the import IDML Import - Initial Words not scaling correctly IDML Import - Placed EPS files are slightly clipped PDF Import - Better handling of restricted files PDF Export - Fixed issues exporting to PDF/X-4 with content with embedded profiles PDF Export - Export could fail for glyph ids that happen to match surrogate pair values Index Index Find - match words with following punctuation Partial loss of parent topics when adding pages from file --- Further fixes, made since the release of 1.8.3, are listed in earlier 1.8.4 betas To be notified about all future Windows beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

Status: Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not Available --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.4.663 is now available as a download from the link above. 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. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. --- Improvements and Fixes General Fixed recent regression when saving Linked Image placeholders which was causing large document files Recoloured K-only images with transparency lose their transparency (Win) Can now import .afassets file via drag drop Text Avoid generating infinite filler text when leading is zero Further improvements for ideographic line breaks, mainly for quote-marks Allow OpenType kerning between glyphs with different settings (if they are the same font and size) Fixed 'Indent To Here' not working if lines are broken by drop cap or wrap shape Fixes for line-breaker around Fixed Spaces Import / Export IDML Import - Text frame corners are now scaled correctly IDML Import - Fixed instances where text wrap path could fail to import, or be scaled incorrectly IDML Import - Generic OpenType features not being imported from IDML file IDML Import - Effects settings not scaled correctly on master page items IDML Import - En-Space in numbered list imported as a 0 IDML Import - Elements could be positioned incorrectly in some instances IDML Import - Question mark in file path breaks link during the import IDML Import - Initial Words not scaling correctly IDML Import - Placed EPS files are slightly clipped PDF Import - Better handling of restricted files PDF Export - Fixed issues exporting to PDF/X-4 with content with embedded profiles PDF Export - Export could fail for glyph ids that happen to match surrogate pair values Index Index Find - match words with following punctuation Partial loss of parent topics when adding pages from file Further fixes, made since the release of 1.8.3, are listed in earlier 1.8.4 betas --- To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

Hi (All), I see what you mean, the 1.8.3 betas can't validate against an installed 1.8.3 because they pre-date it. We will have to put some thought into this as it isn't satisfactory.

We don't check the 'patch' version, i.e. third field, so any 1.8.x.x (Beta) should be OK. Are the options not available for you?

Status: Beta Purpose: Updates and Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Windows Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not Available Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.4.651 is now available as a download from the link above. 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. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. --- Improvements and Fixes General Fix for zero-height / width objects moving to the wrong pages when switching to / from 'Facing Pages' Text > Interactive - Options mismatched with Context Menu (Mac) Fixed Colour chooser UI (Mac) 'Lock Children' wasn't updating correctly on the Context Bar (Mac) Fixed Paragraph Panel 'Use Space Before' popup (Mac) Page view doesn't change when double-clicking pages with OpenGL (Basic) display (Mac) File > Edit in Designer and File > Edit in Photo customisable shortcuts missing (Mac) Convert to Text Frame now handles stroke and fill correctly (Win) Layer / Blend modes list fixed to scroll with arrow keys (Win) Linked afphoto file shows wrong DPI when modified (Win) Pan Tool cursor persisted after using <Space> / Pan Text Fixed crash after editing text styles if changes caused pinned objects to move between spreads Option to preserve Text Frame width when changing Column Gutter in the context toolbar Double click multi-word selection could leave the original word not selected Fixed handling of local objects pinned to master page text when subsequently unpinned Improved line breaking for ideographic languages (Mac) Fixed shortcuts for backspace key (Mac) Fixed Text entry issue in separated mode with multiple documents (Win) Chinese Font names now show in Chinese (Win) Character Panel - Font Category changes after changing font or deselecting object Preflight Fix for stale preflight results persisting when Pages are removed Import / Export XLSX Import - Fixed hang with cells with gradient fills IDML Import - Better handling of master page items with overridden properties PDF Import - Improved handling when importing password restricted PDFs PDF Import - Import now allows creation of Art Text if 'Group lines of Text into Text Frames' is switched off PDF Import - Import now provides fallback if the used font doesn't define space PDF Import - Fixed text positioning which could be incorrect due to spaces being treated as tabs under certain conditions PDF Import - Fall through to alternative mappings when importing text, if necessary PDF Export - Better support for RGBA16 and RGBAUF images SVG Import - 'ClosePath' doesn't have to be followed by a 'Move' SVG Import - Now treats gradients with one stop as solid fills SVG Import - Other fixes for specific files, including malformed files SVG Export - Fixed source of numeric overflow causing curves to be exported incorrectly in some cases Further fixes, made since the release of 1.8.3, are listed in earlier 1.8.4 betas --- To be notified about all future Windows beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

Status: Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not Available --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.4.651 is now available as a download from the link above. 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. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. --- Improvements and Fixes General Fix for zero-height / width objects moving to the wrong pages when switching to / from 'Facing Pages' Text > Interactive - Options mismatched with Context Menu (Mac) Fixed Colour chooser UI (Mac) 'Lock Children' wasn't updating correctly on the Context Bar (Mac) Fixed Paragraph Panel 'Use Space Before' popup (Mac) Page view doesn't change when double-clicking pages with OpenGL (Basic) display (Mac) File > Edit in Designer and File > Edit in Photo customisable shortcuts missing (Mac) Convert to Text Frame now handles stroke and fill correctly (Win) Layer / Blend modes list fixed to scroll with arrow keys (Win) Linked afphoto file shows wrong DPI when modified (Win) Pan Tool cursor persisted after using <Space> / Pan Text Fixed crash after editing text styles if changes caused pinned objects to move between spreads Option to preserve Text Frame width when changing Column Gutter in the context toolbar Double click multi-word selection could leave the original word not selected Fixed handling of local objects pinned to master page text when subsequently unpinned Improved line breaking for ideographic languages (Mac) Fixed shortcuts for backspace key (Mac) Fixed Text entry issue in separated mode with multiple documents (Win) Chinese Font names now show in Chinese (Win) Character Panel - Font Category changes after changing font or deselecting object Preflight Fix for stale preflight results persisting when Pages are removed Import / Export XLSX Import - Fixed hang with cells with gradient fills IDML Import - Better handling of master page items with overridden properties PDF Import - Improved handling when importing password restricted PDFs PDF Import - Import now allows creation of Art Text if 'Group lines of Text into Text Frames' is switched off PDF Import - Import now provides fallback if the used font doesn't define space PDF Import - Fixed text positioning which could be incorrect due to spaces being treated as tabs under certain conditions PDF Import - Fall through to alternative mappings when importing text, if necessary PDF Export - Better support for RGBA16 and RGBAUF images SVG Import - 'ClosePath' doesn't have to be followed by a 'Move' SVG Import - Now treats gradients with one stop as solid fills SVG Import - Other fixes for specific files, including malformed files SVG Export - Fixed source of numeric overflow causing curves to be exported incorrectly in some cases Further fixes, made since the release of 1.8.3, are listed in earlier 1.8.4 betas --- To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

Hi abarkalo, We've recently relaxed the requirement and StudioLink should now work across patch level releases, i.e. you should find a mix of 1.8.3 and 1.8.4 betas should work together. If you do try it, and they don't, please let us know.

Thanks. Updated

Status: Beta Purpose: Updates and Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Windows Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not Available --- Due to the installer issue discussed below we have chosen not to make this build available via auto-update. --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.4.648 is now available as a download from the link above. 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. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. --- We have a number of fixes to tools when working across multiple spreads: Allow immediate dragging of objects on other spreads Constraining while dragging objects between spreads now works correctly When dragging between spreads, snapping is now performed on the target spread candidates Dragging objects between spread using the Focal Point handle now works correctly Fixes for dragging curve nodes across multiple spreads Fixes for 'restart drag' when translating across spreads Fixed issue with auto-panning in the text tool Plus miscellaneous updates and fixes: Fixed crash when dragging items in the Layers control Improved performance of PDF import (~40% faster in the test case) Improved performance of text when rendering text Fixed vector export of text occasionally filling characters Fixed crash when closing floating document Fixed New Document dialog previous document selection highlight not being remembered Fixed PNG export not displaying the size warning if the export dialog was previously closed with a different preset Additional logging and diagnostics added to installer to help anybody with install issues --- To be notified about all future Windows beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

Status: Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Available --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.4.648 is now available as a download from the link above. 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. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. --- We have a number of fixes to tools when working across multiple spreads: Allow immediate dragging of objects on other spreads Constraining while dragging objects between spreads now works correctly When dragging between spreads, snapping is now performed on the target spread candidates Dragging objects between spread using the Focal Point handle now works correctly Fixes for dragging curve nodes across multiple spreads Fixes for 'restart drag' when translating across spreads Fixed issue with auto-panning in the text tool Plus miscellaneous updates and fixes: Improved performance of PDF import (~40% faster in the test case) Improved performance of text when rendering text Fixed vector export of text occasionally filling characters --- To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

I usually delay enabling auto-update for around 24 hours after the initial download is announced just in case there are any issues that appear to be affecting a lot of customers. Auto-update for this build is enabled now.

This is the thread the issue is linked to: