JamesD

Hi,
First I FINALLY got the Affinity Publisher beta installed (had to turn off NET 3.5 to do so) but all is good.

 
 
Second, I was working on a project when I tried to place a PDF into the project canvas, it was placed as a whole image instead of choosing pages. 

 
Adding the option to choose which pages from a PDF alongside what images would be a great feature for Affinity Publisher. This would allow for more flexibility when placing PDFs into a Publisher project.  
 

They can be placed into text frames already. But they cannot be anchored to a specific point in the text.
To put a table into a text frame:
Create the text frame. Fill with text. Create a table somewhere outside the text frame. Use the Move tool to put it over the text frame where you want it. Adjust Text Wrap settings as appropriate. A similar approach can be used for images, shapes, etc. Create them, move them on  top of a text frame at an appropriate position, adjust Text Wrap settings.
However, for all of these, if you add more text it will continue to flow around the placed object, and you cannot (at this time) keep the object positioned with any specific piece of text.

When you place a PDF then you can choose the page shown on the context toolbar at the top. If you want multiple pages then you should load(File Open) the PDF into Publisher and choose the pages you want. We don't currently have a insert PDF/Affinity document that will merge multiple pages yet but we might add it later.
 
 

Ahhh yeah! With RC3, the countdown to the full launch of the Windows version for Affinity Designer nears its conclusion! Business is about to pick up!  :D

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Release Candidate 3
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: None
 
As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity Designer 1.5 cannot be opened in Affinity Photo 1.4, which means that although files created with the Windows beta can be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer (currently on 1.5.1) they cannot be opened in the latest Mac App Store versions Affinity Photo, instead you will need the latest macOS 1.5 beta.
 
We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.   If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.  
Fixes
 
Fixed Clone Brush tool toast message saying |TERTIARY| instead of ALT Fixed Export Persona Revert to Auto Sized (and it's indicator) being broken on resize Fixed Export Persona Slice Presets not updating on remove Fixed Global colour not being recoloured using sliders Fixed Noise slider/Colour Wheel being slow when adjusting swatch fill Fixed Ctrl runup not resetting the marquee Mode Changed Export Slices 'Select Folder' button name to 'Export' Fixed Toggling 'Show Grid' with Ctrl + ' not toggling the checkbox in the Grid and Snapping Axis Manager Fixed Reset Selection Box not updating the values in the Transform Panel Fixed Hex colour codes not copied to the clipboard correctly Fixed Text Styles: 'Show in both panels' option not remaining enabled/applied Fixed keyboard preferences, changing Persona doesn't update category Fixed clicking 'Reset' in the Preferences, keyboard Shortcuts only works per session Fixed being unable to select a font by typing more than the first character Fixed Export Persona Layers Panel 'Make item visible in export' option not hiding the page Fixed floating panels getting resizing incorrectly Fixed Character Panel resizing incorrectly Fixed Character and Paragraph panels becoming stretched after starting app with panels open Fixed switching Persona's when you have floating docked panels causes minor UI problems Fixed Selection Brush size can't be bigger than 1024 px Fixed Export Persona 'Export Slices' button doesn't disable/enable until selection changes Improved 32bit support (now has a dedicated 32bit colour profile) Fixed crash when using Refine Selection, New Layer with Mask on a Vector Cropped object Fixed some font names not displaying correctly (e.g. Pe-icon-7-stroke) Fixed missing string for OCIO Adjustment name in Layer menu 

Hi Nana, unfortunately no, this issue won't be fixed ahead of release. We are concentrating on fixing issues which affect the majority of users, and as far as I can tell, the number of people who will be using the application via remote desktop is going to be very small. Also, the icons only look strange when they're disabled. When the buttons become enabled, they look normal. This is actually a problem with remote desktop itself, not with our application.

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Release Candidate 2
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: None
 
As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity Designer 1.5 cannot be opened in Affinity Photo 1.4, which means that although files created with the Windows beta can be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer (currently on 1.5.1) they cannot be opened in the latest Mac App Store versions Affinity Photo, instead you will need the latest macOS 1.5 beta.
 
We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.   If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.  
Fixes
 
Added IME support Fixed crash when selecting masks or adjustment layers with "Show Selection in Layers Panel" enabled Tweaked Keyboard Preferences UI to more closely match the macOS version Fixed Export Persona shortcuts not saving Fixed new 32bit documents not automatically choosing Linear sRGB as their colour profile Fixed exporting to PDF no longer exporting artboards as pages Added better warning when attempting to open non-Affinity files Fixed sporadic crash when creating new documents Fixed being unable to create new documents while an existing document is being opened Improved font matching when importing PDFs Fixed Export Persona Arrange icons being too big Fixed brush rotation allowing a maximum of 50% Fixed being unable to delete multiple export presets Fixed Export Presets not saving the 'Use DPI Value' for vector formats Fixed focus remaining on input dialogs after interacting with them Fixed Export Persona export options missing preferences context menu Added improvements to distance measurements 

This will be fixed in RC2 - https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/26503-affinity-designer-public-beta-rc1-15025-windows/page-2&p=128296

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Release Candidate 1
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: None
 
As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity Designer 1.5 cannot be opened in Affinity Photo 1.4, which means that although files created with the Windows beta can be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer (currently on 1.5.1) they cannot be opened in the latest Mac App Store versions Affinity Photo, instead you will need the latest macOS 1.5 beta.
 
We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.   If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.  
Fixes
 
Fixed sporadic crash when closing the application Fixed left click and drag on popup sliders so they automatically close (same as macOS version) Fixed changing a slice output from raster to vector not re-adding the name or initialising the dialog correctly Fixed User Variables not exporting making it possible to create files from Export Persona with no filename Fixed Export Persona Path Components dialog containing text that should not be present Fixed right clicking the brushes list to not select the brush Fixed floating document windows remaining on top after switching to another application Fixed being able to edit registration colour swatch Fixed sporadic crash when starting a second instance, if the first instance had crashed Fixed sporadic crash when launching URLs when Windows can't find a suitable application to use Fixed sporadic crash when attempting to show a panel context menu for panels that shouldn't have a menu Fixed context bar not updating for marquee selection Fixed sporadic crash when closing documents Fixed crash on Windows 7 & 8 when scrolling the mouse wheel during the splash screen Fixed PSD import of grey colours Changed multi-page PDF export to be for whole documents, and selections of only artboards (if there is anything else in the selection, it will create a single page PDF of the selected area) Fixed slices with invalid filenames failing to export Fixed Show Selection in Layers Panel not expanding groups when individual object is selected Fixed file extensions not getting stripped from file names when using Save As Fixed Corner types to be disabled until a node is selected Fixed double clicking an already applied Text Style will re-apply it before displaying the Edit Text Style dialog Fixed being unable to apply black/grey/white/none swatch if already highlighted Fixed opening program after toggling UI bringing panels back, but leaving the toggle in unusable state Fixed being unable to create snapshots Fixed Preferences > Performance not saving Fixed Cog shape to allow more than 48 teeth Improved performance of non-OpenType fonts

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability
Requirements: None
 
As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.5 cannot be opened in 1.4, which means files created with the Windows beta cannot be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer, instead you will need the latest macOS beta.
 
We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.   If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.  
Fixes
Fixed crash when pressing ALT+Spacebar on a floating window Fixed crash using Wacom Bamboo on external display (thanks federix) Fixed middle mouse button panning becoming stuck Fixed PDF import of default widths for Japanese fonts Fixed printers marks smaller borders when bleeds are unequal Added publisher details to Add/Remove Programs Added keyboard support to text styles combobox on the context toolbar Fixed crash when exporting to an SMB share from Export Persona Fixed PDF export failing when adding negative value to Phase for a dashed stroke Fixed embedded documents incorrectly displaying their path when they are edited Fixed 'PDF Information' font changes Fixed crash when making no selection with the 'Show selection in layer panel' option enabled Added document loading message Fixed being able to edit a registration colour by double clicking Fixed crash when clicking on swatch panel after editing a swatch Fixed swatches saved with non-default Opacity/Noise values not being applied to objects correctly Added reporting of warnings when loading PSD files Fixed loading of PSD files with noise gradients (but will just ignore the noise gradients as we can't reproduce them) Fixed measuring between siblings inside groups and containers (can also measure immediate children of a container, and between the selected object and it's ancestors) Fixed preview of masks in Layers panel Fixed Customise Toolbar context menu being available during customisation Fixed Asset panel category changing when the panel is docked/undocked Fixed Character panel not disabling controls when no document is available 

Downloaded & installed. Thanks, Affinity team! Real nice list of improvements!

Thanks :)
We've still got some issues to iron out before we release, but as soon as we have more information we'll be sure to let you know.

Click here to download the latest beta
 
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Text Styles & Stability
Requirements: None
 
As this is a beta release, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.5 cannot be opened in 1.4, which means files created with the Windows beta cannot be opened in the Mac AppStore version of Designer, instead you will need the latest macOS beta.
 
We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.   If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.  
Text Styles
New! Text Styles should now be in feature parity with the macOS version Fixes
Fixed Colour Wheel behaviour to match macOS version (selecting a colour via the outer wheel now applies full saturation) Fixed fill colour dropdown strings to match the macOS version Fixed hit testing of text nodes (clicking inbetween characters will select the whole object) Fixed creating or opening multiple documents causing the first object to draw slowly Fixed slow rendering performance on some hardware and driver combinations Changed clicking with Text tools to prefer selecting existing text nodes Fixed Text wrap shapes to behave as if they are closed, even if their source curve isn't Added Shift modifier to constrain RGB values on sliders (to match macOS version) Fixed pressing Enter while editing a colour in the Colour Chooser closing the dialog Fixed being unable to scroll over Y label in the Transform panel Fixed colour not updating for transparent gradient fills after changing opacity to 100% Fixed switching font families not preserving the font style Fixed negative font sizes flipping the font Fixed being unable to change certain tab stops when multiple are present Fixed fill colour not correctly updating when stroke swatch is in front Removed Comic Sans MS from list of websafe fonts as it was removed from iOS in version 4 Fixed missing printers marks for long text Fixed being unable to drag child layer over trash bin to delete it Improved performance of choosing colours via the Colour Chooser dialog Fixed ICC Profile list in export dialog not updating Added handling for Windows font collection changes (no need to reset fonts via Preferences now) Fixed font preview not working correctly Fixed deleting all asset categories not disabling the Delete and Rename options Fixed crash after altering printer properties with Canon Printer Pixma MG5750 Fixed Musical TTF font not getting a font style applied on import Fixed Space Horizontal/Vertical using the wrong icons Fixed CTRL+Z to do multiple undos when held Added toast notification when adding assets with unavailable fonts Fixed Assets panel 'Embed' menu item not working Fixed Colour Chooser dialog to offer the same options as the macOS version Fixed Swatches panel failing to remember what palette was last used between run ups Fixed incorrect toolbar tooltips Fixed crash when opening the Document Setup dialog with a 32bit aphoto file Fixed lines with Square caps not invalidating the right area Added ALT modifier to change between the Node Tool’s old and new style deletes (whether it tries to preserve the curve's appearance) Fixed snapping of slices to allow spanning at the edge of the document Fixed being unable to drag a shapes node handle with the ALT modifier pressed Fixed Snap to pixel + Move by whole pixels to work for edge handles Fixed Colour picker tool missing keyboard shortcut Fixed Fill tool not applying the fill stroke correctly Fixed Move to Next/Previous View Point failing when only 1 View Point exists Fixed help search results appearing in the wrong order (least relevant at the top) Fixed being unable to enter the Node Tool after doing Convert to Curves Fixed Pencil Tool leaving artefacts if ‘Use Fill’ is checked Fixed crash if you force attempt to open a macOS shortcut file Fixed Align Centre shortcut not matching macOS version Fixed Blend Options Reset only resets Master Channel Fixed Scale with object in layer effects dialog not sticking Opening Help now places the caret in the search box automatically Fixed manually entering values in the colour chooser not updating the selected object Fixed sliders when clicking on the track without moving the mouse Added snapping when dragging assets from the Assets panel Fixed pressing delete with a stop selected on the Gradient Flyout removes the object Fixed pressing Escape not closing popups Fixed fx button on Layers panel Fixed slider clicking and dragging Fixes (clicking quickly on the track part of the slider sometimes didn't apply the operation) Fixed new symbols not being in the snapping candidates list Fixed Control+Tab and Control+Shift+Tab takes precedence over tool keys so we can always switch between documents Fixed AltGr + Drag breaking other shortcuts Fixed align text left/right shortcut not functioning Fixed pressing Enter after writing the name of the font in the font dropdown not changing to the selected font immediately Fixed Help window so that it closes when the app closes Fixed colour profiles not being remembered on next runup Fixed Pencil Tool so that it now works correctly in symbols Fixed solo view not working with ALT modifier Fixed space horizontally/vertically options missing from alignment menu Fixed editing a global colour from swatch double-click using the pipette loses it's globalness Fixed New from clipboard so that it marks the document as dirty after creation Fixed measuring so that if you’re over one of the tool handles it doesn't stop you interacting  Installer
Fixed empty requirements dialog on Windows 7

Installing the new build now. Gotta say, I am glad that I found out about Affinity in 2014 (from a article from Creative Bloq), and now I just gotta have this software in my workflow. 

Using the new build and no problems so far. 

There was a last minute problem with the build yesterday, we've now fixed that and are waiting to verify the new version before we release it. Hold tight, it won't be long :).

If the problems still occurs after the next release, I am no problem send you a copy of my font folder. 

Installed the new build. No bugs or crashes so far & continuing to enjoy Affinity Designer. 

Sorry, but we have no plans to include 3D modelling capabilities in Affinity. We may however include the ability to render your current design onto a 3D model for visualisation.

Hi there,
 
I have a question about Affinity Photo in terms of 3D graphics. Will there be support for editing 3D files in Affinity Photo in the future? And allowing for the real-time editiing of 3D files made in Cinema 4D, Maya, Blender, Daz Studio, Bryce, Poser, and Maxon? If not, this would be a great feature to have.