[[AD 1.8.2.0 BETA] Divide produces too many curves]

I think maybe I should be a little less vague about some of the fix details, and then everyone would know that if I hadn't explicitly mentioned the thing they were thinking of, then it hasn't been fixed?

[AD [1.8.1.604] - Expand stroke still does not work properly. Curve ends are cut off!]

Adding arrowheads that are inside the curve, actually shortens the curve and doesn't make it end where it used to - hence the different behaviour. I think there's just some issue surrounding the curves generated by using corners and I'll investigate it, thanks

Matt

[[AD 1.8.2.0 BETA] Divide produces too many curves]

I'm sorry about this being a problem, but I still haven't addressed the divide operation, so I'm not expecting it to have improved - it's a different code path and needs looking at properly.

 

[Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.8.2.0)]

Status: Beta

Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes

Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer

Mac App Store: Not Submitted

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Auto-update: Not available

 

Hello,

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first beta of Affinity Designer 1.8.2 for macOS.

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 an incremental update to the 1.8.1 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.

Many thanks!

Matt

 

Changes This Build

- Fixes for many expand stroke and boolean geometry problems.
- Improvements to customisable shortcuts UI.
- Added ability to preview fonts on black or white background.
- New document panel - terminology and UI tweaks.
- New document panel - saves settings between uses.
- Reinstated double click functionality on zoom, view tools.
- Improved responsiveness when editing large blocks of text.
- Fixed blurred toolbar buttons on non-retina displays.
- Fixed mask bugs when resizing documents.

 

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[Expand Stroke still Bug]

I'm really sorry about this - it seems we had a bug lurking with very simple shapes (those which contained line segments and horizontal/vertical edges). I have now fixed this issue and we'll get Beta builds out asap to address this problem for everyone. Please accept my sincere apologies for this

[divide function does not work correctly after update]

Sorry, there was a small problem that occurs on (ironically) simpler shapes (ie those with straight lines and horizontal/vertical segments) and it has now been resolved. I'll build a 1.8.2 Beta and have it available very soon. I'm truly sorry about this - hopefully we'll have this sorted out for you very very soon!

[Boolean operations broken]

I've already got this sorted, just trying to fix another 'issue' and then I'll make a Beta version so that you can get on again. I'm really sorry about this

[Affinity Designer 1.8 - Much improved performance with imported CAD drawings!!]

Thank you! Ben tried hard to get this working right We've still got great improvements to come in this area, but they'll take a little time...

 

[[AD 1.8.0] No undo after update]

Incidentally, we made a DMG file that you can run and follow the instructions to automatically patch the app for you... https://affinity-beta.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/download/PresetsFix.dmg

It seems there was a 'hiccup' on our build server and it has destroyed one file on the Mac App Store build, so we're building and deploying as soon as Apple can pass it through their store. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience 

Thanks for your patience,

Matt

[Application crash when using drawing tools in Pixel Persona mode]

Incidentally, we made a DMG file that you can run and follow the instructions to automatically patch the app for you... https://affinity-beta.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/download/PresetsFix.dmg

It seems there was a 'hiccup' on our build server and it has destroyed one file on the Mac App Store build, so we're building and deploying as soon as Apple can pass it through their store. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience

Thanks for your patience,

Matt

[Using Add makes curves Disappear]

Incidentally... I do think I might've just fixed this problem... testing it out at the moment

[Using Add makes curves Disappear]

Yes, I should be able to remove them reasonably trivially, but I just want to understand what's causing them in the first place... I think the 1.8.0 version may go with these stray points still being an issue, but I expect I can fix them fairly quickly for a 1.8.1 very soon afterwards...

[Using Add makes curves Disappear]

Thanks Miguel and Boldlinedesign - I also noticed those objects acting strangely...  They obviously appear to be the result of an expand stroke so I'll look into why this is happening (and also make the code handle these objects better anyway!)

Matt

[No "Recents" item in “File -> New” dialog? [All 1.8 apps]]

Hi everyone! As you suspected, this is the reason why 'recents' has temporarily disappeared from the 'New Document' dialog... 'New' document that contains a 'Recent' section implies opening that document as a new document, but that isn't what was happening... We'll talk it through and try to make it more clear what to expect and make that happen in the future

Thanks!

Matt

[Snapping Fails to Produce Perfect Object Alignment]

This is not a problem with snapping. The objects are precisely aligned. The artefacts you can see have discussed many times before and are actually visible (to a greater or lesser extent) in all vector software (if you know how to provoke the problem) unless the renderer uses a different scanline rasteriser. Is this causing you an actual productivity problem? Usually there are many simple ways to work around the issue  Let us know a bit more about how this is affecting you and we can try to help...

[Subtraction]

The object's 'Winding Mode' is wrong. Go to Layer -> Fill Mode -> Alternate and it should be okay. Sorry...

[Expand Stroke Issues]

Thank you! I'll take a look! (it's not the 'expand stroke' function itself that's causing the issue, it's the boolean operation 'add' that I run on the results to remove overlaps that's causing the problem - I need to fix this though, so hang in there and I'll take a look!)  

 

Edited to say: I've just tried this in my latest beta build (I've not released it yet, but it will be 1.8.0.3) and it succeeds - but I still maintain there's a problem with the Boolean operations that causes some issues and I'll try to fix that  

[1px Expand Stroke BUG (1.8.0.2 beta)]

Thanks, @predick

This is already fixed in the next beta build:

[Expand Stoke]

8 hours ago, Jowday said:

I uttered a silent "Finally" to my monitor - it is essentially a bug fix in a beta I shouldn't use yet for production use. Not the introduction of a great new tool. 

[result(s) of Expand Stroke not correct]

1 hour ago, Oval said:

better wait for the final version than use workarounds after all the years

I agree

 

The reason that the arrowhead works suddenly if it's rotated is due to an error with the arrowhead that I'm looking into - it has nothing to do with the expand stroke function itself

 

Interestingly, I took your curve and tried the bit that has a problem with the expansion in Illustrator - it also shows problems. For example, here's the segment of your curve that causes our problem, zoomed in in Illustrator, before and after expand stroke... I think I've fixed ours now and I'm just testing the solution and making it sure it hasn't had any side-effects...

[Shift-click to select/deselect multiple objects - buggy]

I'll ask for this to be looked at - that's not good at all

[Boolean operations]

I'd be very interested to see an example of this with any operation other than 'Divide'. Divide is different to the other operators and needs some attention...

[Expand Stoke]

@Mark Oehlschlager the start/end nodes are the most likely of all to have issues due to the fact that a freehand pencil/brush tool has lots of noise at the start/end. I suspect @retrograde used a Pen tool to create the source curves?

Using your pencil/brush freehand approach, if you cleaned up the start/end nodes and then hit expand stroke, you'd probably find the results make a lot more sense. I'm just trying to say that the result of the Expand Stroke is correct, but the input given to it (from using the Wacom) is noisy, so you get noisy data out at the end, if that makes sense?

Yes, I do wonder if the 'tolerance' of the fit could be a user-adjustable parameter...  

Matt

[Banana death in vector :)]

Wowwee!! That's great - well done!

[Divide Operation …]

Hi Alex!

'Divide' is not implemented correctly and really needs reimplementing... It introduces strange shapes and arguably just produces the wrong outputs (as shown). The other operations are working better now, but I need more time with 'Divide' still...

Matt