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Whoops, thank you. Hopefully one day they will, but not currently unfortunately.

Text Wrap Borders - You're welcome. Sorry it slipped out in the first place.

This build has been superseded by Build 257 and this thread is now locked.

This build has been superseded by Build 257 and this thread is now locked.

Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10 (>=1607) Hi, We are pleased to announce Affinity Publisher build 257 is now available as a manual download from the link above and on auto-update. 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. --- Arrowheads! We have Arrowheads for Line Styles from Designer. The best place to report any issues is probably the Designer Beta Forum. Assets We have removed the placeholder Assets from Publisher. Publisher will release with an empty Asset Panel. .NET 4.7.2 (Windows) Due to a compiler update we now have a dependency on .NET 4.7.2. The installer has been updated to install this version of the framework. This means that the system requirements have changed slightly and we will no longer install on Windows 8.0 (!) or early unpatched versions (< 1607) of Windows 10. Other Improvements and Fixes Main Frame UI No more duplicate empty panels (!) Option for large thumbnails in Layers Panel. Layer colour tagging added Column guide default options are now saved Adding content with linked images to Assets will switch them to be embedded Reintroduced Rotate View on context menus Added command entry on Text Styles combos to create a new style (Mac) Fixed overlay issue when entering font name into Text context toolbar font control (Mac) Fixed crash using arrow keys in Pages Navigator on High Sierra and earlier (Mac) Toggle Unicode shortcut is listed only under Text Menu (Mac) Find and Replace panel icons missing from Panel on El Capitan and earlier (Mac) Line Break shortcut is <Shift>-<Enter> Pages / Master Pages No longer draw guides from hidden masters Fixed scroll into view in Pages panel Fixed crash when pasting a Master into itself Fixed crash moving items in Z-order having done detached edits Text Fixed application of Text Wrap borders (!) Placing text with a frame selected now populates the frame and replaces the current content Fix for positioning of path text Formatting a specific text selection no longer updates text defaults. Formatting at the insertion point still does Text tool selection improvements. <Alt>-<Click> forces select in front / behind Long / nested style names in the Text Style panel are now displayed with elllipsis if necessary rather than shrinking Fixed crash reading text attributes near Drop Caps Fix for Character Variants for some fonts failing to show up in Typography panel Fix for erroneous spell check warnings when languages switch within text Paragraph Leading control not using localised decimal separator OpenType - Accept newer versions of GSUB / GPOS tables. Used by e.g. Bahnschrift (Mac) Fixed underline position for e.g. Univers Ultracondensed (Win) Fixed issues with the Paragraph Decoration dashed stroke UI Tables <Ctrl>-A / <Cmd>-A now selects all text in a cell rather than all cells in text context Fixes for Table Tool when Table is nested inside layers etc Fixed issue setting Table Cell insets (Mac) Fixed glitch changing Table Format names Find and Replace Replaced character escapes in Find results with 'User Description' glyphs RegEx fix for Find with trailing '\b', '\>' not highlighting results and Replace not working RegEx fix for Replace All for empty search ranges RegEx fix for lookaround (?=regex) etc Hyperlinks File based Hyperlinks now have an option to copy the linked file to the output folder Insert Anchor fails on text frames promoted from Master Page Add Interactive > Insert Hyperlink to customisable keyboard shortcuts Import / Export / Print PDF Import - Fix for layers not importing PDF Import - Improved detection of redundant clips PDF Export - Use document colour space for transparency blending Export - Fixed issue rendering image nodes with transparent regions with fills applied on raster export Export - 'Pages' entry box isn't always enabled correctly (Win) Fix for CMYK Printer Profiles not showing in Print dialog (Win) Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects Index Sort index entries by page number --- Earlier Release Notes Beta 249

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 257 is now available as a manual download from the link above and on auto-update. 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. --- Arrowheads! We have Arrowheads for Line Styles from Designer. The best place to report any issues is probably the Designer Beta Forum. Assets We have removed the placeholder Assets from Publisher. Publisher will release with an empty Asset Panel. Other Improvements and Fixes Main Frame UI No more duplicate empty panels (!) Option for large thumbnails in Layers Panel. Layer colour tagging added Column guide default options are now saved Adding content with linked images to Assets will switch them to be embedded Reintroduced Rotate View on context menus Added command entry on Text Styles combos to create a new style (Mac) Fixed overlay issue when entering font name into Text context toolbar font control (Mac) Fixed crash using arrow keys in Pages Navigator on High Sierra and earlier (Mac) Toggle Unicode shortcut is listed only under Text Menu (Mac) Find and Replace panel icons missing from Panel on El Capitan and earlier (Mac) Line Break shortcut is <Shift>-<Enter> Pages / Master Pages No longer draw guides from hidden masters Fixed scroll into view in Pages panel Fixed crash when pasting a Master into itself Fixed crash moving items in Z-order having done detached edits Text Fixed application of Text Wrap borders (!) Placing text with a frame selected now populates the frame and replaces the current content Fix for positioning of path text Formatting a specific text selection no longer updates text defaults. Formatting at the insertion point still does Text tool selection improvements. <Alt>-<Click> forces select in front / behind Long / nested style names in the Text Style panel are now displayed with elllipsis if necessary rather than shrinking Fixed crash reading text attributes near Drop Caps Fix for Character Variants for some fonts failing to show up in Typography panel Fix for erroneous spell check warnings when languages switch within text Paragraph Leading control not using localised decimal separator OpenType - Accept newer versions of GSUB / GPOS tables. Used by e.g. Bahnschrift (Mac) Fixed underline position for e.g. Univers Ultracondensed (Win) Fixed issues with the Paragraph Decoration dashed stroke UI Tables <Ctrl>-A / <Cmd>-A now selects all text in a cell rather than all cells in text context Fixes for Table Tool when Table is nested inside layers etc Fixed issue setting Table Cell insets (Mac) Fixed glitch changing Table Format names Find and Replace Replaced character escapes in Find results with 'User Description' glyphs RegEx fix for Find with trailing '\b', '\>' not highlighting results and Replace not working RegEx fix for Replace All for empty search ranges RegEx fix for lookaround (?=regex) etc Hyperlinks File based Hyperlinks now have an option to copy the linked file to the output folder Insert Anchor fails on text frames promoted from Master Page Add Interactive > Insert Hyperlink to customisable keyboard shortcuts Import / Export / Print PDF Import - Fix for layers not importing PDF Import - Improved detection of redundant clips PDF Export - Use document colour space for transparency blending Export - Fixed issue rendering image nodes with transparent regions with fills applied on raster export Export - 'Pages' entry box isn't always enabled correctly (Win) Fix for CMYK Printer Profiles not showing in Print dialog (Win) Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects Index Sort index entries by page number --- Earlier Release Notes Beta 249

Hi rubs, This is a deliberate change over 1.6. As an example, incrementing this field by integer values when using inches as a unit makes no sense. Instead we now use an increment based on the number of decimal places set up for the unit in preferences. By default we use ten times the smallest value indicated by the number of decimal places, so 3 decimal places increments in hundredths, 1 decimal place increments in integers, etc. Also note that using <Shift> increases this base increment by a factor of 10 and using <Alt> reduces it by a factor of 10.

No, I’m afraid we’re not considering this. It sounds like a feature for a full scripting engine rather than find and replace.

Hi Peter, Thank you. We have fixes for (?=), (?!) , (?<=), (?<!) and \K that you should see in the next build. Please let us know how you get on.

Thank you. Hopefully fixed for the next update.

Thank you all. Basically 'Replace All' was failing with zero length matches. We think this should be fixed for the next update.

Thanks for this, very helpful. We think we've tracked down the issue matching trailing '\b's. On the subject of whitespace it seems a zero width space is not generally classified as whitespace ('\s') http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Compatibility_Properties

Yes, this is correct. We are also using ICU, to help with consistency across platforms among other reasons.

Hi GarryP, We think it only makes sense to display one set of margins and column guides per page and if there is more than one master assigned to the same page we take them from the rearmost. I think this explains the behaviour you are seeing. It's been suggested we could tweak this by skipping a spread if it had no margins or column guides, but I'd be worried making the rules more complicated might cause confusion.

This build has been superseded by Build 249 and this thread is now locked.

This build has been superseded by Build 249 and this thread is now locked.

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 249 is now available as a manual download from the link above and via auto-update. 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. --- Personas - Renamed Layout Persona -> Publisher Persona and Vector Persona -> Designer Persona Regular Expressions for Find and Replace - We have added the facility to Find and Replace using perl type (or ‘ECMAScript with perl extensions’) regular expressions -- The options to turn the feature on are found on the Find and Replace panel search options drop menu -- 'Regular Expression' - Find / Replace will be performed using the "C" or "POSIX" locale -- 'Locale Aware Regular Expression' - Find / Replace will be performed using the locale inferred from the text being searched and locale aware collation is implied --- Please note that a 'Locale Aware Regular Expression' has to treat each block of text with a different language setting in isolation Hyperlinks - Stacks of hyperlink fixes - Hyperlink anchor placeholder glyphs now look like anchors Translation - Stacks of Translation layout fixes. Please note that most strings lacking a translation from English will not have been updated yet. - If you would like to report translation issues we would be grateful if you could report them in this thread. Other Fixes and Updates New Documents / Document / Spread Setup - Fixed crash dragging Artboard from Designer to Publisher - Fixed consistency issues with Margins / Bleed entry layout - Fix to prevent overlapping when bleed area is set large Tools - Fixed lag when attempting to <Ctrl> copy objects - Added buttons to Text Context Bar to update Text Style, plus other tweaks - Fixed Text Frame vertical alignment context toolbar icon to reflect current frame Panels - Secondary page highlight on Pages Panel now reflects current spread rather than visible spread - Support drag drop afassets / afstyles files to import them as a category - (Mac) Fields Panel Text Edit is no longer dark on dark - (Mac) Fixed for Text Frame Panel Insets steppers not always responding - (Win) Fixed difficulties renaming a layer in Layer Panel - (Win) Fix issue deleting mask / adjustment in Layer Panel - (Win) Other Layer Panel updates, Checkerboard background, optional Thumbnail size (Coming soon to Mac) - (Win) Update opacity and blend mode on adjustments panel properly Text / Tables - Fixes for AutoFlow, including failure after document Close / Open - Fixed crash when trying to insert linked text frames into the text flow rather than at the end - Fixes for auto-correct typographic quotes / single quotes - Removed Table Cell Stroke alignment options - (Mac) Fixed selection of entire words containing special characters - (Mac) Fixed Leading stepper on Character Panel - (Mac) Text Style Decorations now display CMYK values as CMYK Images and Resources - Fixed possible hang when opening large document with missing resources Import / Export - (Win) Significant performance improvements when Saving / Exporting - Option to Export Layers to PDF disabled when PDF Version doesn't support Layers (PDF 1.4) --- Earlier Release Notes Beta 238

Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8 / Win 10 Hi, We are pleased to announce Affinity Publisher build 249 is now available as a manual download from the link above and via auto-update. 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. --- Personas - Renamed Layout Persona -> Publisher Persona and Vector Persona -> Designer Persona Regular Expressions for Find and Replace - We have added the facility to Find and Replace using perl type (or ‘ECMAScript with perl extensions’) regular expressions -- The options to turn the feature on are found on the Find and Replace panel search options drop menu -- 'Regular Expression' - Find / Replace will be performed using the "C" or "POSIX" locale -- 'Locale Aware Regular Expression' - Find / Replace will be performed using the locale inferred from the text being searched and locale aware collation is implied --- Please note that a 'Locale Aware Regular Expression' has to treat each block of text with a different language setting in isolation Hyperlinks - Stacks of hyperlink fixes - Hyperlink anchor placeholder glyphs now look like anchors Translation - Stacks of Translation layout fixes. Please note that most strings lacking a translation from English will not have been updated yet. - If you would like to report translation issues we would be grateful of you could report them in this thread. Other Fixes and Updates New Documents / Document / Spread Setup - Fixed crash dragging Artboard from Designer to Publisher - Fixed consistency issues with Margins / Bleed entry layout - Fix to prevent overlapping when bleed area is set large Tools - Fixed lag when attempting to <Ctrl> copy objects - Added buttons to Text Context Bar to update Text Style, plus other tweaks - Fixed Text Frame vertical alignment context toolbar icon to reflect current frame Panels - Secondary page highlight on Pages Panel now reflects current spread rather than visible spread - Support drag drop afassets / afstyles files to import them as a category - (Mac) Fields Panel Text Edit is no longer dark on dark - (Mac) Fixed for Text Frame Panel Insets steppers not always responding - (Win) Fixed difficulties renaming a layer in Layer Panel - (Win) Fix issue deleting mask / adjustment in Layer Panel - (Win) Other Layer Panel updates, Checkerboard background, optional Thumbnail size (Coming soon to Mac) - (Win) Update opacity and blend mode on adjustments panel properly Text / Tables - Fixes for AutoFlow, including failure after document Close / Open - Fixed crash when trying to insert linked text frames into the text flow rather than at the end - Fixes for auto-correct typographic quotes / single quotes - Removed Table Cell Stroke alignment options - (Mac) Fixed selection of entire words containing special characters - (Mac) Fixed Leading stepper on Character Panel - (Mac) Text Style Decorations now display CMYK values as CMYK Images and Resources - Fixed possible hang when opening large document with missing resources Import / Export - (Win) Significant performance improvements when Saving / Exporting - Option to Export Layers to PDF disabled when PDF Version doesn't support Layers (PDF 1.4) --- Earlier Release Notes Beta 238

Thanks. I thought we’d sorted Baseline Grid / Drop Cap (linked topic) - seems we need to take another look.

Hi, We have a fix pending so that the 'View > Studio > Hyperlinks' type of problem doesn't happen again. I the meantime, please hold <Ctrl> while launching the app to see the "Reset Studio".

Hi Eisbar, Please make sure you have updated to 238. Also try resetting your studio View > Studio > Reset Studio, or if that doesn't work ty Ctrl-Run Up as suggested above.

Hi dominik, Apologies for not getting back sooner. Thanks for reporting the Hyperlinks on Master Page text Frame issue. We have a fix for this and it will be in the next update.

Yes, exactly this. (Internal) discussion is on-going.

Thank you. I can see this too (or rather can’t!) and it is logged.

Hi Gerard O, You should find that if you select the 'Area' to be 'All Pages' rather than 'All Spreads' on the export dialog facing page spreads will be exported as individual pages.