AdamW

MikeW · February 6, 2020

Thanks for the discussion, we'll add an option for 'Dot matches Paragraph Break' in the next 1.8 beta.

eartner · February 5, 2020

Status: Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available

---

Hi,

We are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.549) is now available as a download from the link above.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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 and Updates

New Document Dialog
(Win) Implemented new New Document / Template dialog
(Mac) Miscellaneous fixes

General
Layers thumbnails now update when a global colour is changed
Convert to text frame now preserves corners
Fixed creation of unnecessary duplicates in Resource Manager / Collect...
Added 'Show in Explorer / Finder' to Resource Manager
Document Grid drawn incorrectly when switching between Master and Regular View
Fixed crash adding assets from afpub file
Assets imported via an afasset file aren't made visible if no categories currently exist
Can now search for missing fonts via Find and Replace
Fixes for Baseline Grid propagation from Master Pages

Preflight
Preflight check for missing glyphs

Text
Fixed crash in text composition. Recent regression
Fixed for Even / Odd Page Breaks
Fixes for Pinning Page UI
Column Rules now honour Text Wrap
Fixed Text Wrapping issues that could occur with large negative borders
Wrap settings saved in an objects style weren't correctly applied
Added more 'special characters' to the Bullets and Numbering character pick lists
Fixed Text Styles Panel preview for styles with a large 'Space Above'
'Word Joiner' and 'Zero Width Non-breaking Space' can now be entered with ToggleUnicode, and have their own "Show Special" representation.
Pasting text with Move Tool active now appends content to non-filler text rather than replacing
Warning now given when attempting to spell check text with no suitable dictionary available
Improved Title Exceptions granularity to never change certain words
Specific font incorrectly keeps italics activated
(Win) Drop Scale for Descenders option was missing
(Win) Previews on Typography Panel corrupted

Tables
Deleting row(s) in table caused alignment settings to reset
Table format > Frame stroke alignment is not remembered when changing the width

TOC
Pinned Frames now use the location of their pin to influence the order of TOC entries
(Win) TOC Panel was missing separator field

Index
Fix occasional crash opening Index Panel

Import
PDF Import: PDF Import now supports JBIG2 compression.
DOCX Import: DOCX Import now supports linked images
IDML Import: Shift+Tab (Right Indent Tab) not imported
IDML Import: Gutter values could be incorrect

Export / Print
PDF Export: Images in Embedded Documents weren't downsampling to correct DPI leading to unnecessarily high-res bitmaps.
JPEG Export: Include bleed was missing

Updated Help and Translations

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Jens Krebs · February 5, 2020

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 a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.549) is now available as a download from the link above.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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 and Updates

New Document Dialog
(Win) Implemented new New Document / Template dialog
(Mac) Miscellaneous fixes

General
Layers thumbnails now update when a global colour is changed
Convert to text frame now preserves corners
Fixed creation of unnecessary duplicates in Resource Manager / Collect...
Added 'Show in Explorer / Finder' to Resource Manager
Document Grid drawn incorrectly when switching between Master and Regular View
Fixed crash adding assets from afpub file
Assets imported via an afasset file aren't made visible if no categories currently exist
Can now search for missing fonts via Find and Replace
Fixes for Baseline Grid propagation from Master Pages

Preflight
Preflight check for missing glyphs

Text
Fixed crash in text composition. Recent regression
Fixed for Even / Odd Page Breaks
Fixes for Pinning Page UI
Column Rules now honour Text Wrap
Fixed Text Wrapping issues that could occur with large negative borders
Wrap settings saved in an objects style weren't correctly applied
Added more 'special characters' to the Bullets and Numbering character pick lists
Fixed Text Styles Panel preview for styles with a large 'Space Above'
'Word Joiner' and 'Zero Width Non-breaking Space' can now be entered with ToggleUnicode, and have their own "Show Special" representation.
Pasting text with Move Tool active now appends content to non-filler text rather than replacing
Warning now given when attempting to spell check text with no suitable dictionary available
Improved Title Exceptions granularity to never change certain words
Specific font incorrectly keeps italics activated
(Win) Drop Scale for Descenders option was missing
(Win) Previews on Typography Panel corrupted

Tables
Deleting row(s) in table caused alignment settings to reset
Table format > Frame stroke alignment is not remembered when changing the width

TOC
Pinned Frames now use the location of their pin to influence the order of TOC entries
(Win) TOC Panel was missing separator field

Index
Fix occasional crash opening Index Panel

Import
PDF Import: PDF Import now supports JBIG2 compression.
DOCX Import: DOCX Import now supports linked images
IDML Import: Shift+Tab (Right Indent Tab) not imported
IDML Import: Gutter values could be incorrect

Export / Print
PDF Export: Images in Embedded Documents weren't downsampling to correct DPI leading to unnecessarily high-res bitmaps.
JPEG Export: Include bleed was missing

Updated Help and Translations
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January 31, 2020

We did have a similar issue with an earlier beta when switching from viewing Master Pages to Regular Pages (or vice versa).

Jon P · January 29, 2020

On 1/28/2020 at 1:40 PM, walt.farrell said:

And now note the arrowhead on the actual decoration, which is reversed from what's shown in the stroke settings:

Hi Walt,

As things stand this is to be expected. You have to imagine the stroke decoration as sides of a box drawn around the text frame.

SrPx · January 21, 2020

Status: Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available

---

Hi,

We are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.535) is now available as a download from the link above.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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 and Updates

General
Fix for crash on startup when specific (broken) fonts are installed
Embedded Assets imported from opened files aren't always visible initially
Fixed sporadic crash switching from the Text Flow Tool to the Move Tool
Prevented opening of multiple copies of placed linked documents
Fix for documents not auto-updating when edited from inside the application
(Mac) Fixed crash Adding Pages from File

Page Management
Master Page text could be duplicated when migrating masters
IME panel now available in detached Master Text Frames

IDML Import
Sporadic crash opening IDML with Drop Cap paragraph styles.
Use document profile when IDML contains an image profile of 'None'
Text Variables converted to plain text when importing IDML

Text
(Mac) Fix for crashing in the Text Style Editor (hopefully!)
Improved Title Exceptions granularity to never change certain words
Fixed text drag drop for Master Page text frames
Improved adjustment of last Table Row height / Column width

Indexes
Words containing index marks could not always be found

Preflight
Added 'Warning' state to preflight status indicator
Additional Hyperlink checks
Overflow text check sometimes wasn't reported if the page frame was overflowing but the master frame wasn't
Ignore small images for non-proportional scaling warning

Export
Fixed PSD Export of Master Page content
Linked sRGB document not printing correctly when placed in a greyscale document

Updated Help and Translations

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A_B_C · January 21, 2020

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 a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.535) is now available as a download from the link above.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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 and Updates

General
Fix for crash on startup when specific (broken) fonts are installed
Embedded Assets imported from opened files aren't always visible initially
Fixed sporadic crash switching from the Text Flow Tool to the Move Tool
Prevented opening of multiple copies of placed linked documents
Fix for documents not auto-updating when edited from inside the application
(Mac) Fixed crash Adding Pages from File

Page Management
Master Page text could be duplicated when migrating masters
IME panel now available in detached Master Text Frames

IDML Import
Sporadic crash opening IDML with Drop Cap paragraph styles.
Use document profile when IDML contains an image profile of 'None'
Text Variables converted to plain text when importing IDML

Text
(Mac) Fix for crashing in the Text Style Editor (hopefully!)
Improved Title Exceptions granularity to never change certain words
Fixed text drag drop for Master Page text frames
Improved adjustment of last Table Row height / Column width

Indexes
Words containing index marks could not always be found

Preflight
Added 'Warning' state to preflight status indicator
Additional Hyperlink checks
Overflow text check sometimes wasn't reported if the page frame was overflowing but the master frame wasn't
Ignore small images for non-proportional scaling warning

Export
Fixed PSD Export of Master Page content
Linked sRGB document not printing correctly when placed in a greyscale document

Updated Help and Translations
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Mithferion · January 16, 2020

On 1/15/2020 at 4:09 PM, Jens Krebs said:

Are there any more new features coming for 1.8 or are we in the polishing phase?

17 hours ago, garrettm30 said:

I am interested in how this question is answered–if they are able to answer it.

Yep, most of our cards are on the table for 1.8 now. We're already planning future updates, but there are a lot of loose ends that need tying up for 1.8 too.

Petar Petrenko · January 16, 2020

19 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said:

Would you be so kind to explain a little bit better how does this work? Is it connected only with IDML or we can use it anywhere: in text, find/replace...? I tried entering this code g+03c7 with adding space after it (hoping it will auto insert the glyph), with ENTER, but nothing happened.

Hi Petar,

It specifically relates to this post.

SrPx · January 15, 2020

Status: Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available

---

Hi,

We are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.531) is now available as a download from the link above.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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.

Once again, many thanks for your continued feedback.

---

Fixes and Updates

Main Menus / Toolbars / Studio / General Tools
Unified View Menu 'Manager' ordering for all Applications and Personas
Find and Replace text colour does not work when colour is selected from waterfall
Tweaked Vector Crop tool so that we offer a hit handle for narrow shapes
(Mac) Grid fixes, bad redrawing on zoom, issues with gutters, improvement with Metal shader
(Mac) Preview Mode button on new toolbar now correctly reflects if preview mode is on / off
(Win) Drag objects into Assets

Document Management
(Mac) Miscellaneous fixes for New Document Panel
(Mac) Double clicking a page type in New Document didn't close the dialog correctly
Changing document DPI can change bleed / margins and text wrapping values under certain circumstances
Added previews in 'Add Pages from File...' dialog

Text / Tables
Text composition performance improvements
Fixed crash when column end hyphenation zone would force an entire line to the next column
Column end zone should not be used if auto-hyphenation is off
No-break text was breaking at twice the frame's width
Line break after "/" should not get a hyphen
Text Frame gutter drag handles become misaligned when frame is scaled
Text with Baseline Grid isn't vertically aligned correctly
Copying table data from Excel can bring in an extra column
Excel import style fixes
Excel import merged cells not being handled correctly
Excel import some sheets missing on import
(Mac) Removed spurious drop control that had appeared on Paragraph panel

Hyperlinks
Unintended Hyperlink attributes can be applied when inserting immediately adjacent text
Implemented 'Go to Target' for URL Hyperlinks
(Mac) Fix for specific crash with Hyperlink edits
(Mac) Fix for editing of Hyperlink names
(Mac) Hyperlink dialog offering pixels instead of pages

Images /Picture Frames
Placed embedded stock photos can now be converted to linked correctly
Updated OpenJPEG importer to fix import of specific images
Fix for crash embedding afphoto file multiple times
Fix for resizing a Picture Frame before placing an image altering the image scale

Preflight
Updated Bleed Hazard Preflight check
Added Preflight default profile
Added Preflight user comments
Added Preflight for spelling errors
Added Preflight for a range of undesirable text patterns
Added Preflight check for missing fonts
Only warn about the last overflowing text frame in the flow
Inhibit creation of profiles when no document is open
Fix for delete from Profile Manager
Made the out-of-date resource Preflight warning fixable
(Mac) Preflight panel missing in separated mode
(Mac) Fixed unreadable page numbers on Panel in Sierra

IDML Import
Fixed up IDML file associations
Estimate document DPI when importing IDML files
Inserted PDFs import at incorrect size
Text enclosed in XMLElement tags is now imported
Avoid possible 'Linked resource changed' warning on IDML import containing linked PDFs
Importing custom glyphs with g+nnnn notation
Some image frames coming in as empty despite having image content
Fixed table sizes and offsets to take account of border line width
Hyperlinks now imported (as text only)

Plus Help and Localisation updates

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A_B_C · January 15, 2020

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 a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.531) is now available as a download from the link above.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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.

Once again, many thanks for your continued feedback.

---

StudioLink

This build of Affinity Publisher, 1.8.0 Beta, requires 1.8.0 Beta builds of Photo and Designer for StudioLink to function. These are available from the Photo and Designer Beta forums.

---

Fixes and Updates

Main Menus / Toolbars / Studio / General Tools
Unified View Menu 'Manager' ordering for all Applications and Personas
Find and Replace text colour does not work when colour is selected from waterfall
Tweaked Vector Crop tool so that we offer a hit handle for narrow shapes
(Mac) Grid fixes, bad redrawing on zoom, issues with gutters, improvement with Metal shader
(Mac) Preview Mode button on new toolbar now correctly reflects if preview mode is on / off
(Win) Drag objects into Assets

Document Management
(Mac) Miscellaneous fixes for New Document Panel
(Mac) Double clicking a page type in New Document didn't close the dialog correctly
Changing document DPI can change bleed / margins and text wrapping values under certain circumstances
Added previews in 'Add Pages from File...' dialog

Text / Tables
Text composition performance improvements
Fixed crash when column end hyphenation zone would force an entire line to the next column
Column end zone should not be used if auto-hyphenation is off
No-break text was breaking at twice the frame's width
Line break after "/" should not get a hyphen
Text Frame gutter drag handles become misaligned when frame is scaled
Text with Baseline Grid isn't vertically aligned correctly
Copying table data from Excel can bring in an extra column
Excel import style fixes
Excel import merged cells not being handled correctly
Excel import some sheets missing on import
(Mac) Removed spurious drop control that had appeared on Paragraph panel

Hyperlinks
Unintended Hyperlink attributes can be applied when inserting immediately adjacent text
Implemented 'Go to Target' for URL Hyperlinks
(Mac) Fix for specific crash with Hyperlink edits
(Mac) Fix for editing of Hyperlink names
(Mac) Hyperlink dialog offering pixels instead of pages

Images /Picture Frames
Placed embedded stock photos can now be converted to linked correctly
Updated OpenJPEG importer to fix import of specific images
Fix for crash embedding afphoto file multiple times
Fix for resizing a Picture Frame before placing an image altering the image scale

Preflight
Updated Bleed Hazard Preflight check
Added Preflight default profile
Added Preflight user comments
Added Preflight for spelling errors
Added Preflight for a range of undesirable text patterns
Added Preflight check for missing fonts
Only warn about the last overflowing text frame in the flow
Inhibit creation of profiles when no document is open
Fix for delete from Profile Manager
Made the out-of-date resource Preflight warning fixable
(Mac) Preflight panel missing in separated mode
(Mac) Fixed unreadable page numbers on Panel in Sierra

IDML Import
Fixed up IDML file associations
Estimate document DPI when importing IDML files
Inserted PDFs import at incorrect size
Text enclosed in XMLElement tags is now imported
Avoid possible 'Linked resource changed' warning on IDML import containing linked PDFs
Importing custom glyphs with g+nnnn notation
Some image frames coming in as empty despite having image content
Fixed table sizes and offsets to take account of border line width
Hyperlinks now imported (as text only)

Plus Help and Localisation updates
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January 10, 2020

1 hour ago, woefi said:

I just realized I was being dragged away by the cool idml conversion feature, so after checking for errors, I already proceeded working in b523 as I was in the "flow"... .

Yeah, I know that's my fault... Will it be possible to copy/paste some beta-objects over to the 1.8 release?

If you mean the 1.7 release, then 'probably' but no guarantees. If you do really mean 1.8, then yes, no problem, we always aim to be backward compatible.

fde101 · January 6, 2020

Apologies if this seems picky (or obvious), but to be clear, if you open and save a document in the beta version you might not be able to open it again in the released version after that due to a file format update. We do suggest you make copies of files you intend to open in the beta to avoid any accidents. :)

MikeW · December 16, 2019

Hi A_B_C,

Thanks, this is really helpful. We'll get it sorted.

StuartRc · December 13, 2019

Status: Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available

---

Hi,

It has been a fantastic year for Affinity Publisher, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued feedback and input. We would not have made it so far and so fast without you.

Anyhow, we are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.523) is now available as a download from the link above. Barring catastrophe this will probably be our last update this year.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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.

Once again, many thanks for your continued feedback, and best wishes for the Holiday Season and the New Year.

---

New Features and Major Improvements

Preflight

We have introduced a preflight check feature which can be used to ensure that your document exports or prints as intended. The preflight check runs as a background process, and can be run on on demand, prior to output, or 'live' on a continual basis. We currently have a number of separate tests with more planned for inclusion in the final 1.8 and in the future.

Preflight is configured via the 'Preflight' panel, which supports profiles to specify which tests should be run if you desire. An indicator is provided on the status bar for immediate feedback on the process. Note we have requested updated icons as we are aware that colour alone is not a good way to represent the different statuses.

Please feel free to suggest additional tests - it's likely that many will already be under consideration but please don't let that deter you.

Fixes and Smaller Updates

New Document Panel (Mac only currently)
(Mac) Panel is now resizable and modeless.
(Mac) Reworked categories and subcategories.
(Mac) Added multiple user template folder support.
(Mac) Added Page Preset label (allow for `Custom`).
(Mac) For those items with no previews, we draw the Affinity icon for now.
(Mac) Excluded IDML files from quicklook preview.

Document Setup
Adding a page via menu / shortcut wasn't propagating desired properties.
(Win) Changing DPI in a facing page document could incorrectly cause pages to be resized.

General
(Win) Stock Panel search criteria is no longer cleared when switching providers.
(Win) Global Colour Picker was not using document's colour space.

Text
Space between paragraphs of the same style can now be set explicitly.
Stylistic Sets and Character Variants now show names in UI if defined by the font.
OpenType UI now uses feature descriptions from font and smarter samples.
Improved SmallCaps and CapsToSmallCaps handling.
Updated handling of 'Kerning' in Text Styles.
Fixed a couple of issues with 'Towards Spine / Away from Spine' UI.
Inline Text Frames were showing spelling errors in overflow.
(Mac) Fixed insets controls in Text Frame panel.
Fixed crash pinning to master page.
Fixed failure to report missing fonts for non character glyphs.
Drop caps 'Auto' now deals with inline images correctly.
Text in Text frames at very edge of page could show the wrong page number.
(Mac) Fixed insets controls in Text Frame panel.
(Win) Character Panel was not always reflecting current font properly.

Hyperlinks
Add ability to see and sort by hyperlink type.
(Mac) Fixed crash when switching a file based hyperlink to use a different file.
(Mac) Fixed possible crash on showing Insert Hyperlink Dialog.

File Import
Some Embedded Documents could initially render incorrectly after re-opening host document.
Adding Pages from File manages mismatch in document transparency properly.
Fixed missing elements when importing specific EPS features.
(Win) Fixed crash on Windows when jpeg error handler triggered.

IDML
Fixed crashes on import for specific sample files.
Supports space between paragraphs of same style.
Improved import of unencoded glyphs.

XLSX
Fix for hidden columns.
Some text field types not imported.

Export
PDF/X-3 Embedding a colour profile was always converting image colour spaces to match the profile.

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evtonic3 · December 13, 2019

Status: Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available

---

Hi,

We were surprised and delighted that Publisher was awarded Apple's macOS App of the Year last week, and of course, this is where it really all happens, so we would like to thank you once again for all of your feedback and input. We would not have made it so far and so fast without you.

That said, it's pretty much business as usual, and we are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.523) is now available as a download from the link above. Barring catastrophe this will probably be our last update this year.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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.

Once again, many thanks for your continued feedback, and best wishes for the Holiday Season and the New Year.

---

StudioLink

This build of Affinity Publisher, 1.8.0 Beta, requires 1.8.0 Beta builds of Photo and Designer for StudioLink to function. We hope to make these available soon.

---

New Features and Major Improvements

Preflight

We have introduced a preflight check feature which can be used to ensure that your document exports or prints as intended. The preflight check runs as a background process, and can be run on on demand, prior to output, or 'live' on a continual basis. We currently have a number of separate tests with more planned for inclusion in the final 1.8 and in the future.

Preflight is configured via the 'Preflight' panel, which supports profiles to specify which tests should be run if you desire. An indicator is provided on the status bar for immediate feedback on the process. Note we have requested updated icons as we are aware that colour alone is not a good way to represent the different statuses.

Please feel free to suggest additional tests - it's likely that many will already be under consideration but please don't let that deter you.

Fixes and Smaller Updates

New Document Panel
Panel is now resizable and modeless.
Reworked categories and subcategories.
Added multiple user template folder support.
Added Page Preset label (allow for `Custom`).
For those items with no previews, we draw the Affinity icon for now.
Excluded IDML files from quicklook preview.

Document Setup
Adding a page via menu / shortcut wasn't propagating desired properties.
(Win) Changing DPI in a facing page document could incorrectly cause pages to be resized.

General
(Win) Stock Panel search criteria is no longer cleared when switching providers.
(Win) Global Colour Picker was not using document's colour space.

Text
Space between paragraphs of the same style can now be set explicitly.
Stylistic Sets and Character Variants now show names in UI if defined by the font.
OpenType UI now uses feature descriptions from font and smarter samples.
Improved SmallCaps and CapsToSmallCaps handling.
Updated handling of 'Kerning' in Text Styles.
Fixed a couple of issues with 'Towards Spine / Away from Spine' UI.
Inline Text Frames were showing spelling errors in overflow.
(Mac) Fixed insets controls in Text Frame panel.
Fixed crash pinning to master page.
Fixed failure to report missing fonts for non character glyphs.
Drop caps 'Auto' now deals with inline images correctly.
Text in Text frames at very edge of page could show the wrong page number.
(Mac) Fixed insets controls in Text Frame panel.
(Win) Character Panel was not always reflecting current font properly.

Hyperlinks
Add ability to see and sort by hyperlink type.
(Mac) Fixed crash when switching a file based hyperlink to use a different file.
(Mac) Fixed possible crash on showing Insert Hyperlink Dialog.

File Import
Some Embedded Documents could initially render incorrectly after re-opening host document.
Adding Pages from File manages mismatch in document transparency properly.
Fixed missing elements when importing specific EPS features.
Fixed crash on Windows when jpeg error handler triggered.

IDML
Fixed crashes on import for specific sample files.
Supports space between paragraphs of same style.
Improved import of unencoded glyphs.

XLSX
Fix for hidden columns.
Some text field types not imported.

Export
PDF/X-3 Embedding a colour profile was always converting image colour spaces to match the profile.

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Old Bruce · December 3, 2019

Hi Walt,

The original hardcoded modifier for <Shift> when using this function was incompatible with assignment of a user shortcut which included <Shift> so the hardcoded modifier has been removed.

walt.farrell · December 3, 2019

8 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I hope that Windows will catch up with the new Mac Template feature soon

Yep, shouldn't be too long.

fde101 · December 2, 2019

5 minutes ago, fde101 said:

The issue I had previously reported concerning the column rules section missing from the text frame panel is still present in the current beta. The section appears if I set the language explicitly to "English" (UK English) and restart the app. It disappears again if I set it back to "Default".

Thanks, I see in fact our QA have re-opened, must be more to it than I thought.

Wosven · December 2, 2019

Status: Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available

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Hi,

We are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.518) is now available as a download from the link above.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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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New Features and Major Improvements

Embedded Document Bounding Boxes

There are more options for setting the bounding box of placed documents to bound only content, visible content etc

Fixes and Smaller Updates

Main Workspace
(Win) Scroll extents not recalculated when switching between Master and Normal views

Page Management
Allow you to add pages by dragging and dropping a master between existing pages
Drag and drop a master to a spread to apply it
Resizing master page via File > Spread Setup doesn't offer to resize associated document pages
Improved labelling of Master Page Instances
Can now lock / unlock objects under Master Page Instances

Merge Documents
Miscellaneous Fixes
Added import of Document Sections
Added management of Page Hyperlinks on import

Image Resources
Fixed possible crash / hang reopening documents with specific linked images
Fix for Embedded Documents not always remembering current active page when reloaded
Artboards can become out of sync if added / removed in linked afdesign documents

Effects / Filters
Fixed conversion of effect parameter values to depend on Document DPI
Fix for Live Perspective Filter in a document with bleed

Text
Can now set Text Frames column gutter from the context toolbar
A value of 0 for 'Allow Max Consecutive Hyphens' is now used to indicate no limit

Column Rules
Text Frame Panel sections missing or out of sync
Various Column Rules fixes

Hyperlinks
Expanded Hyperlink Studio character limit for Name field

DOCX Import
Installed fonts being incorrectly substituted after Word placement

IDML Import
Some placed images not imported
Text frame pinned within text frame not importing content
Fixed crash due to issue decoding URL strings of file paths

XLSX Import
Fixes for XSLX files imported from LibreOffice
Fix for last column shrinking on XLSX import
Fixed crash placing XLSX files into text frames
(Mac) Fixes for XLSX files imported from Numbers

Export / Printing
Can now export PDF pages out of order
Fix for PDF Export with certain adjustments
PDF Export can now handle text with linestyles including complex dash patterns
Inner bleed not respected when exporting to all pages PDF
(Win) Fix for custom paper size not saving / loading with profile
(Win) Fix for collate option not saving / loading with profile

Updated Help and Translations

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Seneca · December 2, 2019

Status: Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available

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Hi,

We are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.518) is now available as a download from the link above.

As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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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StudioLink

This build of Affinity Publisher, 1.8.0 Beta, requires 1.8.0 Beta builds of Photo and Designer for StudioLink to function. We hope to make these available soon.

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New Features and Major Improvements

New Document Dialog with Template Support

(Currently for Mac Only) A enhanced version of the New Document dialog with support for template files, previews plus more.