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    Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.384 (RC1)

    in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads

    Posted

    Status: Release Candidate
    Purpose: Improvements and Fixes
    Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
    Download: No longer available
    Auto-update: No longer available

    Hi,

    We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher build 384 (RC1) is now available as a download from the link above. To be notified of further updates please press follow on this announcement thread.

    We are very happy with Affinity Publisher 1.7 and are moving towards the final stages for launch, but would still urge some caution with respect to using this version for critical work as it is still possible we may have missed something that may cause you issues.

    That said, please note that we aren’t done yet - we are still working through reported bugs and hope to fix as many as possible before launch. After launch we will start a new Customer Beta for those who wish to have early access to on-going updates and fixes.

    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 / Improvements

    Open / Import / Export
    Publisher now offer to convert Artboards to spreads for Photo documents as well as Designer documents
    Warn before Export / Print if there are linked resource issues
    Fixed PDF Export issue with zero height lines
    Fixed RTF Export issue / crash when copy pasting text from Publisher
    PDF Export - Fix for Greyscale export of RGB documents / placed RGB images
    (Win) Fixed "Export text as curves" for EPS export
    (Win) Fix for documents with facing pages always showing Page 1 when opened

    Tools / Panels
    Better handling of Convert To Curves for text frames
    Fix crash with localised swatch names
    Fixes for TOC Panel layout on windows

    Text
    Selecting text with keyboard would switch between pages at the wrong point
    Fix crash when deleting path of Path Text
    Tweaked attributes for text inserted after line break
    Fixes for updates to Global Colours used in the StyleSheet
    Fixes for Baseline Grid and Vertical Justify when text Baseline Grid text attribute is not set
    Fixes for Bullet / Numbered List text UI
    Fix for duplication of Pinned Text nodes
    (Win) Font traits aren't always correctly highlighted in dropdown
    (Win) Fixed Detach Paragraph from Text Style

    Tables
    Fixed hang editing Tables due to rounding errors when fitting text
    Decorations fixed for rotated text in Table Cells
    Fixes for Cell selection issues

    Resource Manager
    Better management on selection in Resource Manager when working with resources

    Images
    Fixes for Posterize adjustment

    ---

    Earlier Release Notes Beta 376

    Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.376

    in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on Windows threads

    Posted

    Status: Public Beta
    Purpose: Stability and General Testing
    Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10  (>=1607)

    Hi,

    First of all, I (and the team) would like to thank everyone for your fantastic response to the Affinity Publisher pre-order. If you feel that you should have received an offer email and you haven't I suggest you contact affinityorders@serif.com with as much information as possible.

    We've released this update mainly to fix the issues reported in Build 371 with the Text Tool and Select All / Copy / Paste etc. We will issue a Release Candidate next week and take things from there. After launch we will start a new Customer Beta for those who wish to have early access to on-going updates and fixes.

    ---

    We are pleased to announce Affinity Publisher build 376 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.

    ---

    Fixes

    Menus / Studio
    (Win) Fix for Adjustments thumbnails in Layers panel not being updated

    Document
    Document transparency property now applies correctly to all spreads including masters

    Import/ Export
    Fix for crashes exporting with missing linked images
    Fixed Font Manager locate not working on fonts used by list glyph styles

    Tools
    Fixes for the Measure Tool and Master Page items

    Text
    Fix for text selection range issue, Select All / Copy / Paste crashes etc
    Fixes for conflict with the Measure Tool / Text Tool when selecting
    Fixes for multi-click expanding ranges in text selection
    Selecting a Picture Frame now highlights the content resource in Resource Manager

    Resources
    Fix for missing Resource Manager thumbnails on document open
    Fix for incorrect placement in Resource Manager when embedding linked resources

    Hyperlinks
    (Mac) Add hyperlink button was inappropriately enabled under some circumstances

    ---

    Earlier Release Notes Beta 371

    Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.376

    in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads

    Posted

    Status: Public Beta
    Purpose: Stability and General Testing
    Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
    Download: No longer available

    Hi,

    First of all, I (and the team) would like to thank everyone for your fantastic response to the Affinity Publisher pre-order. If you feel that you should have received an offer email and you haven't I suggest you contact affinityorders@serif.com with as much information as possible.

    We've released this update mainly to fix the issues reported in Build 371 with the Text Tool and Select All / Copy / Paste etc. We will issue a Release Candidate next week and take things from there. After launch we will start a new Customer Beta for those who wish to have early access to on-going updates and fixes.

    ---

    We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher build 376 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.

    ---

    Fixes

    Menus / Studio
    (Win) Fix for Adjustments thumbnails in Layers panel not being updated

    Document
    Document transparency property now applies correctly to all spreads including masters

    Import/ Export
    Fix for crashes exporting with missing linked images
    Fixed Font Manager locate not working on fonts used by list glyph styles

    Tools
    Fixes for the Measure Tool and Master Page items

    Text
    Fix for text selection range issue, Select All / Copy / Paste crashes etc
    Fixes for conflict with the Measure Tool / Text Tool when selecting
    Fixes for multi-click expanding ranges in text selection
    Selecting a Picture Frame now highlights the content resource in Resource Manager

    Resources
    Fix for missing Resource Manager thumbnails on document open
    Fix for incorrect placement in Resource Manager when embedding linked resources

    Hyperlinks
    (Mac) Add hyperlink button was inappropriately enabled under some circumstances

    ---

    Earlier Release Notes Beta 371

    Command + A Crashes Publisher

    in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads

    Posted

    Hi,

    Can you give us any more details? Basically in the simplest case this appears fine for me. @Seneca - it would be useful to know if you are also running on a macOS earlier than Mojave?

    [EDIT] There is a crash dump in the other thread about this problem, which indicates the tester is running Mojave and the crash is related to the processing of spelling underlines. There were changes in this area last week so it adds up. Any further information you can give us could still be helpful though.

    Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.371

    in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on Windows threads

    Posted

    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 371 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.

    ---

    New Features / Improvements

    Drag & Drop of story text within document. Drag / drop of inline pinned nodes.
    Added option to "Apply Paragraph Style and Clear Character Styles" to text styles. 
    Added option to "Reapply Base Styles" to Text menus.
    Added menu option to delete unused text styles.
    Added align 'Towards Spine' and 'Away From Spine'.

    Fixes

    Main Window / Studio
    Fix for page thumbnails not updating when linked images are loaded
    Fixed crash duplicating page when something is selected on a master page
    (Win) New documents open into the current view group. (e.g. Floating).
    (Mac) Fixed swatch palettes for non-English UI languages

    Tools
    Fix for inability to change the font when using the Text tool before creating the text
    Fix for Text frame ruler not honouring offsets
    Fixed table resizing issues
    Added 'Edit Image' for linked raster images

    Import
    File > Place still lets you place an image with text frame selected
    Fixed possible hang with File > Place if location ceases to exist
    Added access to Font Manager from Missing Fonts notification message
    More DocX fixes, including Section Breaks, WMF / EMF, Table improvements
    RTF Import - Non-English language improvements
    Fixed crash linking multiple embedded resources in Resource Manager

    Text
    Fix bug that could cause failure to draw line from floating node to pin
    Pinned nodes now positioned correctly in vertically aligned text
    Update pins when node crop changes
    Fixed Vertical alignment in text frame with baseline grid
    Paragraph decorations no longer skip empty lines
    No longer suppress underlines on trailing tabs (e.g. so they can be used to draw forms)
    Fix for Text Content Toolbar not correctly reporting colour
    Auto-correct fixes

    Tables
    Ctrl-Click multiple table cells now works

    Export
    (Mac) Fix for PDF Export UI 
    Fixed error in size of Export bitmaps when exporting with bleed
    PDF Export - Avoid failure filling zero-sized shapes
    PDF Export - Overprint handling tweak
    PDF Export - Explicit option to control whether images are converted to destination colour space
    RTF Export - Non-English language improvements

    ---

    Earlier Release Notes Beta 337

    Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.371

    in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads

    Posted

    Status: Public Beta
    Purpose: Stability and General Testing
    Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above

    Hi,

    We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher build 371 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.

    ---

    New Features / Improvements

    Drag & Drop of story text within document. Drag / drop of inline pinned nodes.
    Added option to "Apply Paragraph Style and Clear Character Styles" to text styles. 
    Added option to "Reapply Base Styles" to Text menus.
    Added menu option to delete unused text styles.
    Added align 'Towards Spine' and 'Away From Spine'.

    Fixes

    Main Window / Studio
    Fix for page thumbnails not updating when linked images are loaded
    Fixed crash duplicating page when something is selected on a master page
    (Win) New documents open into the current view group. (e.g. Floating).
    (Mac) Fixed swatch palettes for non-English UI languages

    Tools
    Fix for inability to change the font when using the Text tool before creating the text
    Fix for Text frame ruler not honouring offsets
    Fixed table resizing issues
    Added 'Edit Image' for linked raster images

    Import
    File > Place still lets you place an image with text frame selected
    Fixed possible hang with File > Place if location ceases to exist
    Added access to Font Manager from Missing Fonts notification message
    More DocX fixes, including Section Breaks, WMF / EMF, Table improvements
    RTF Import - Non-English language improvements
    Fixed crash linking multiple embedded resources in Resource Manager

    Text
    Fix bug that could cause failure to draw line from floating node to pin
    Pinned nodes now positioned correctly in vertically aligned text
    Update pins when node crop changes
    Fixed Vertical alignment in text frame with baseline grid
    Paragraph decorations no longer skip empty lines
    No longer suppress underlines on trailing tabs (e.g. so they can be used to draw forms)
    Fix for Text Content Toolbar not correctly reporting colour
    Auto-correct fixes

    Tables
    Ctrl-Click multiple table cells now works

    Export
    (Mac) Fix for PDF Export UI 
    Fixed error in size of Export bitmaps when exporting with bleed
    PDF Export - Avoid failure filling zero-sized shapes
    PDF Export - Overprint handling tweak
    PDF Export - Explicit option to control whether images are converted to destination colour space
    RTF Export - Non-English language improvements

    ---

    Earlier Release Notes Beta 337

    Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.330 (Withdrawn)

    in [ARCHIVE] Publisher beta on macOS threads

    Posted

    On 5/18/2019 at 7:31 AM, A_B_C said:

    Just for clarification, Adam: as long as I keep my images embedded rather than linking it, I would be on the safe side, even with .330? :/

    Hi A_B_C.,

    Sorry I missed your post - yes, it is specifically the action of converting an 'embedded document' (pdf, psd, svg, affinity documents) from embedded to linked that creates a document that cannot be re-opened. As it happens, conversion between embedded and linked is fine for placed raster data (jpeg, png etc). Hopefully we should have a fix soon. In the meantime, as always, but especially if using 330, please keep regular backups.

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