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Status: Beta
Purpose: Updates and Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Available
Hi,
We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.0.874 is now available as a download from the link above.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is significant update from the 1.8 version available for purchase - we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous or future versions of Affinity Publisher.
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Fixes And Improvements
General
Fixed issues with Assets Panel
Fixed display of and snap to Column Guides
Snap to Object Geometry snapping to curve intersections was broken
Document profile PDX Export preflight tweak, falls back to CMYK profile for RGB / LAB documents
(Win) Fixes various issues with mishandling of CJK fonts in the UI
Selection Context Menu
(Win) Fixed crash when using Ctrl+Right Click on empty area
(Win) Only dig into containers when the Secondary modifier is not held down
(Win) Parent node added to top of submenu
Rendering
Fix for rotated or skewed filled rectangles not rendering correctly under OpenCL compute
Master Pages
Pinned objects from Master Pages were not showing in bleed 
Resizing a single page master could cause spreads that used it to be resized incorrectly
Guides lost from Master Page when changing from facing to single pages
(Win) Paste as Content into Master Page Picture Frames was disabled
(Win) Fixes for margins setup on a Master Page
Images and Resources
Fix for xlsx import currency parsing
Fixed issue opening heic files with extended characters in the file path
Fixes for specific PDF import failures
PDF Passthrough not automatically set if PDF drag dropped from Finder / Explorer
Fixed warnings about over-size export files
Resource Manager could scale cropped objects on Replace
Resource Manager now shows Artboard names instead of Page Numbers for placed Artboard documents
Resource Manager 'Replace' for Picture Frame content was not working correctly
(Win) Passthrough PDFs could fail to print
(Win) Inconsistency with the 'Include Bleed' option on the Export Dialog
(Win) Resource Manager now highlights group of selected resource if group is collapsed
Text
Text Frame button missing from context toolbar for Text on a Path
More consistent handling of mid-word punctuation
Text wrap settings on images could become distorted after a document save and load
Fixed issue adding tab stops to the Text Ruler
Fixed issue where grouping could change text size due to anomaly in layer setup
RTF export / copy paste was losing hyphens under certain circumstances
(Win) Fixed selection highlighting issue in Text Styles panel
(Win) Current Formatting box in the Text Styles panel was not always updating correctly
TOC
Style changes not always picked up as out of date for TOC
Bookmarks created by TOC not in the correct order when exported to PDF
Data Merge
Fixed Data Merge crash with no source selected
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Release Notes for 1.9.0.829
Release Notes for 1.9.0.822
Release Notes for 1.9.0.798
Release Notes for 1.9.0.796
Release Notes for 1.9.0.742
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Hello @sambader,
'Select Same' and 'Select by Property' are currently in beta.
It was introduced here:
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This of course is true and I did not think of that aspect. Sorry.
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2,54 cm is one inch. So I assume the idea is to have a default spacing for tabs of 1/2 inch.
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Search the forum 😉
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=animation
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I checked this in AD and it lists what I believe is the packs that I have been given so far. I did not purchase and but some were part of a special offer.
After download they show up in the Pixel Persona, which seems correct. Among them are Frankentoon Texturizer - A ... D. Unfortunately they are listed not in alphabetical order due to the fact that they downloaded and installed in a different order. This is just a visual flaw but brings up the request to better organizing the brushes panel.
I also checked in APh and it behaved the same.
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I'll be honest, this isn't some massive discussion and then new direction we've decided to go on. It's actually a little oversight in bringing the multiple file extensions support in (the irony here was that users were complaining that we defaulted to ".tiff" but they wanted the option to name their files ".tif"). The new change means that we have a list of allowed extensions and the default extension is the first in the list, so we have ".tiff;.tif" and ".jpeg;.jpg", when previously we only had ".tiff" and ".jpg". So in order to bring some consistency with TIFF I put the "correct" JPEG extension first. At the risk of upsetting my OCD I may consider switching the order of ".jpeg" and ".jpg" around, or providing a preference to always default to 3 letter extensions.

I checked this in AD and it lists what I believe is the packs that I have been given so far. I did not purchase and but some were part of a special offer.
After download they show up in the Pixel Persona, which seems correct. Among them are Frankentoon Texturizer - A ... D. Unfortunately they are listed not in alphabetical order due to the fact that they downloaded and installed in a different order. This is just a visual flaw but brings up the request to better organizing the brushes panel.
I also checked in APh and it behaved the same.
d.

I checked this in AD and it lists what I believe is the packs that I have been given so far. I did not purchase and but some were part of a special offer.
After download they show up in the Pixel Persona, which seems correct. Among them are Frankentoon Texturizer - A ... D. Unfortunately they are listed not in alphabetical order due to the fact that they downloaded and installed in a different order. This is just a visual flaw but brings up the request to better organizing the brushes panel.
I also checked in APh and it behaved the same.
d.

I checked this in AD and it lists what I believe is the packs that I have been given so far. I did not purchase and but some were part of a special offer.
After download they show up in the Pixel Persona, which seems correct. Among them are Frankentoon Texturizer - A ... D. Unfortunately they are listed not in alphabetical order due to the fact that they downloaded and installed in a different order. This is just a visual flaw but brings up the request to better organizing the brushes panel.
I also checked in APh and it behaved the same.
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Click here to download the latest beta
Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

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 that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum 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.
Changes
Fixed performance problems with OpenCL enabled Fixed rotated or skewed filled rectangles (with no stroke) rendering incorrectly (fills extending to rotated bounding box)  Fixed Hue shift slider background to not move with the slider  Fixed crash when using Ctrl+Right Click (Selection context menu) on empty area  Fixed crash on startup if a proxy is configured without a scheme Fixed inability to add tab stop lower than the already existing highest value  Fixed pasted images incorrectly having the document colour space in Resource Manager instead of the image's colour space  Fixed crash changing Character Decorations Outline Colour without a document open  Fixed crash loading images greater than 2GB in size Fixed failure to load TIFF files greater than 2GB in size Fixed cursor not being visible after interacting with the Export dialog  Allow variations in file extensions during export (e.g. *.tiff and *.tif). Default extension is first in the list (i.e. *.jpeg, *.tiff). Changed the preference 'Import PSD Text As Text' to be enabled by default 1.9.0.864 release notes

May I kindly ask you not to shout or yell (by using capital letters) at the company who is hosting this forum. This is offensive. There are other ways to formulate critism. And it certainly does not speed up anything.
Best regards,
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Beeing a student is no excuse for stealing.
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I completely agree with you... stealing is not fine... just as unfair pricing for non-professional end users that do not make any money using the software is not. If the price is reasonable I have no problems buying and supporting it. That's why I switched to Affinity.
Paying 438,96 € a year for PDF editing/viewing tool is just out of the picture for me and probably for most people that do not make money with it. That's where Affinity could come in and probably take a huge part of Adobe Acrobat market share.
But I do agree with you... as I said stealing is not fine and knowing that I'm a future to-be software developer it would definitely hurt the business, that's why I like to buy all the software that I regularly use/plan to use.
Here is my recent Affinity order for example:
 
 
I did not mean to break any rules so I truly am sorry for that 😅

Hi @Martin Ferenec,
We appreciate your feedback here regarding Affinity, many thanks for this!
We can't however allow your comments regarding pirating Adobe here, as we do not tolerate this - with the Affinity software or any other paid for software.
I have edited your above comment to remove this and I must ask that you refrain from such statements in the future if you wish to continue posting here.

Beeing a student is no excuse for stealing.
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Beeing a student is no excuse for stealing.
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Sometimes it's the simple things that do the trick 🙂  Glad you got it sorted out.
Cheers,
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Hello @Bog and welcome to the forum.
Since you are new here you may not have noticed that there is an extensive and constantly active discussion about Linux support over at the Affinity Suite forum. There alone are more than three threads with currently 56, 32 and 14 pages of discussion (a total of almost 2500 postings). I kindly suggest you (and anyone else) to join the discussion over there instead of continuing this thread in this forum here.
You find these here: 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/56-feedback-for-the-affinity-suite-of-products/
Cheers,
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Hello @Bog and welcome to the forum.
Since you are new here you may not have noticed that there is an extensive and constantly active discussion about Linux support over at the Affinity Suite forum. There alone are more than three threads with currently 56, 32 and 14 pages of discussion (a total of almost 2500 postings). I kindly suggest you (and anyone else) to join the discussion over there instead of continuing this thread in this forum here.
You find these here: 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/56-feedback-for-the-affinity-suite-of-products/
Cheers,
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I doubt that fonts that are not at all referenced in a document are showing up as missing. It may be that a document that has a longer history of creation stages (e.g. import parts of Word documents or copy and paste from the internet) may have strange 'traces'. One way to get rid of these (at least with a test document) is to copy the entire text into a plain text editor and copy and paste it back in. This will erase all formatting information but will cause a major rework of the layout.
One other thing you can do is to use 'Find and Replace' from the Studio. The little cog icon top right of the search field lets you open a 'Choose Format' dialogue. There you select in the Font section 'Missing' from the dropdown. This finds all occurences of missing fonts.
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Thanks will do.

May I kindly ask you not to shout or yell (by using capital letters) at the company who is hosting this forum. This is offensive. There are other ways to formulate critism. And it certainly does not speed up anything.
Best regards,
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Hi @SaltyClownShoes,
check out the Preflight panel. It should also help with missing fonts.
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