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MattP

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  1. Status: Release Candidate

    Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes

    Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer

    Mac App Store: Not Submitted

    Download: Download

    Auto-update: Not available

     

    Hello,

    We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Affinity Designer Beta 1.8.3.0 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 1.8.2 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

    - Fix for autosaves not working correctly when opening and editing existing documents.
    - Fix for focus issues with the Colour Studio when tabbing between text fields with a selected object.
    - Improved boolean geometry results (not Divide).
    - Many PDF export fixes and improvements.
    - Fix for some selection-related problems while trying to xor selections.
     

  2. On 3/9/2020 at 1:35 PM, Sean P said:


    Do you have ANY idea how you made this object or got it into this state? As I mentioned this should not be possible!

    Thanks

    Hi Sean (and interested parties!)

    I'm guessing that it is simply because the object had a line weight, had 'scale with object' set on the stroke, then was transformed to flip it in at least one axis - the resulting line now thinks it has an inverted line weight? I've fixed the code to actually work correctly! :)

    Many thanks everyone,

    Matt

  3. 4 hours ago, BPf said:

    Did some more testing:

    • when creating a new file straight from a template, I can save it
    • the files I have problems with were created from modifications on a template (ArchE)

    Hi @BPf,

    There is a known bug which shows itself as a failure to save any new document that started from the 'Architectural' presets type. Just choose *any* other type of document for now... The Beta already fixes this and the official release of 1.8.2 is not far away at all. I'm sorry you're experiencing this in the meantime :( 

    Thanks,

    Matt

  4. Hi @martdupuis,

    Sorry you've encountered problems - your document works and exports correctly in the Beta version of 1.8.2 and this will hopefully be deployed as the release version very soon. I suspect that (from looking at your document) the problem was probably due to a failure to expand one of the strokes in your document due to an error on my part, sorry :( 

    In the meantime I can only offer my apologies, but at least a solution is on the immediate horizon. Here is an SVG export of your file from the current Beta, just to show that it works!

    Thanks again,

    Matt

    pivoine.svg

  5. On 3/8/2020 at 2:04 PM, amyas said:

    @markw Thanks for the solution! But I have to keep using the public releases since the beta version may cause compatibility issues for my file, hope Affinity could release the fix soon. 

    Hi @amyas - if you take a look at the Beta mentioned above, you can see that it is recommended to be used instead of the official release version as it contains nothing that would cause an incompatibility with files and just includes improved functionality and bug fixes. This version will very shortly be released at 1.8.2 so it should not pose any issues :)

  6. Hi Kevin! :) Thanks for the feedback on this - I really do appreciate people thoroughly testing things :)  I do want to warn you though that I still haven't looked at the Divide operation - it gets better as a consequence of the other operations working better, but it is implemented in a sub-optimal way, so until I can give it a few days of attention then I don't expect it to be bug-free, I'm afraid... I'll definitely look at it soon, but unless I specifically mention it in a bug release then it's safe to assume I haven't invested the time and attention it requires yet... :/ 

    Thanks again!

    Matt

  7. Hi @Ricky James - do you possibly have the original of that file somehow so that we could get a copy of it and look into this? I've seen this problem mentioned in the last 24 hours by someone else but their file had been lost :( We have found a problem with documents created from the 'Architectural' document presets that would show itself in the same way as this, but it looks like you had probably been working on this file (perhaps opening it and working on it, then going to save?) so I'm guessing yours must be a different issue? Any information you can offer about what you'd recently done might help too? I'm really sorry about this - but thanks for your help! :)

    Matt

  8. Hi GokhanEser :)

    I think that markw was just trying to help :) Yes, the issues that you've posted about are still there and will be looked into - I can only apologise that you're having these problems at the moment and we'll try to get them resolved as quickly as possible. All the issues are nicely documented in your videos, thank you - and yes we've already got these in the bug database and I'm looking at them with the rest of the team.

    Thanks again :)

    Matt

  9. Status: Beta

    Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes

    Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer

    Mac App Store: Not Submitted

    Download: Download

    Auto-update: Not available

     

    Hello,

    We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Affinity Designer Beta 1.8.2.1 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

    - Fix for PDF export issues relating to missing straight line segments.
    - Allow PSD smart object import in Designer.
    - Further expand stroke and boolean geometry fixes.
    - Fix some symbol instability problems..
    - Fix for some compound objects not allowing documents to be opened in 1.8.

     

    Changes Since 1.8.1

    - 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.

     

    To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this beta notification thread 

    To be notified when this update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Affinity Designer customers, please follow this release notification thread

     

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