derlange 58

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Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10  (>=1607)
Hi,
We are pleased to announce Affinity Publisher build 257 is now available as a manual download from the link above and on auto-update.
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 where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 
We hope you enjoy the product, 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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Arrowheads!
We have Arrowheads for Line Styles from Designer. The best place to report any issues is probably the Designer Beta Forum.
Assets
We have removed the placeholder Assets from Publisher. Publisher will release with an empty Asset Panel.
.NET 4.7.2 (Windows)
Due to a compiler update we now have a dependency on .NET 4.7.2. The installer has been updated to install this version of the framework.
This means that the system requirements have changed slightly and we will no longer install on Windows 8.0 (!) or early unpatched versions (< 1607) of Windows 10.
Other Improvements and Fixes
Main Frame UI
No more duplicate empty panels (!)
Option for large thumbnails in Layers Panel. Layer colour tagging added
Column guide default options are now saved
Adding content with linked images to Assets will switch them to be embedded
Reintroduced Rotate View on context menus
Added command entry on Text Styles combos to create a new style
(Mac) Fixed overlay issue when entering font name into Text context toolbar font control
(Mac) Fixed crash using arrow keys in Pages Navigator on High Sierra and earlier
(Mac) Toggle Unicode shortcut is listed only under Text Menu
(Mac) Find and Replace panel icons missing from Panel on El Capitan and earlier
(Mac) Line Break shortcut is <Shift>-<Enter>
Pages / Master Pages
No longer draw guides from hidden masters
Fixed scroll into view in Pages panel
Fixed crash when pasting a Master into itself
Fixed crash moving items in Z-order having done detached edits
Text
Fixed application of Text Wrap borders (!)
Placing text with a frame selected now populates the frame and replaces the current content
Fix for positioning of path text
Formatting a specific text selection no longer updates text defaults. Formatting at the insertion point still does
Text tool selection improvements. <Alt>-<Click> forces select in front / behind
Long / nested style names in the Text Style panel are now displayed with elllipsis if necessary rather than shrinking
Fixed crash reading text attributes near Drop Caps
Fix for Character Variants for some fonts failing to show up in Typography panel
Fix for erroneous spell check warnings when languages switch within text
Paragraph Leading control not using localised decimal separator
OpenType - Accept newer versions of GSUB / GPOS tables. Used by e.g. Bahnschrift
(Mac) Fixed underline position for e.g. Univers Ultracondensed
(Win) Fixed issues with the Paragraph Decoration dashed stroke UI
Tables 
<Ctrl>-A / <Cmd>-A now selects all text in a cell rather than all cells in text context
Fixes for Table Tool when Table is nested inside layers etc
Fixed issue setting Table Cell insets
(Mac) Fixed glitch changing Table Format names
Find and Replace
Replaced character escapes in Find results with 'User Description' glyphs
RegEx fix for Find with trailing '\b', '\>' not highlighting results and Replace not working
RegEx fix for Replace All for empty search ranges 
RegEx fix for lookaround (?=regex) etc
Hyperlinks
File based Hyperlinks now have an option to copy the linked file to the output folder
Insert Anchor fails on text frames promoted from Master Page
Add Interactive > Insert Hyperlink to customisable keyboard shortcuts
Import / Export / Print
PDF Import - Fix for layers not importing
PDF Import - Improved detection of redundant clips
PDF Export - Use document colour space for transparency blending
Export - Fixed issue rendering image nodes with transparent regions with fills applied on raster export
Export - 'Pages' entry box isn't always enabled correctly
(Win) Fix for CMYK Printer Profiles not showing in Print dialog
(Win) Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects
Index
Sort index entries by page number
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 249

This doesn't sound like a bug in the latest customer beta, so I'm moving it to the questions forum.

you activated a lock icon, please "unlock" it in the layer
 

My screen is quite small so I am not entirely certain what you were doing but I notice you are on Windows and I am on Mac. That said I must ask: Why did you use commas and not just use spaces to apply to many pages? "1-4 6 9 11-23" Try again with no commas (or periods or whatever) just spaces and dashes.

Someone suggested I put this here - posted in the Affinity Publisher Forum - 
 
See the link above for additional comments
 
Post from link is copy and pasted below: 
 
I'm going to use a Calendar as a way of showing a few useful features I found out - and some suggestions.

Firstly, dragging out a table is great! Select the Table icon in the tool bar, select the Snapping tool to get it to snap to the margins, and simply Drag Out the table - you will see it gives dimensions - rows and column counts too! Pretty cool!

There are only a few modifier keys available. A modifier key is when you are using the mouse to move/alter something and press a key on the keyboard to get it to behave a different way.
Shift = constrains proportions CMD = sizes from the centre point where you clicked on the screen What I think is missing is a modifier key to allow the amount of rows and columns - simple arrow keys could add and remove rows and columns would be super useful!
 
 

For this calendar - I only want the First 3 rows to appear. Month - Days - Dates
I draw out the table and let go of the mouse and low and behold - I have 7 (that was lucky) columns and 3 rows, as I only dragged down that far.
 
The added feature that's pretty cool!
With the Table tool still selected - you can drag down the table from the tab as indicated. Or similarly - on the right hand side, grab the tab and drag to add more columns!
You can slide them up and down or left and rigth until you have the desired amount of columns or rows.
 
However, once you have made your decision - you cannot remove the rows/columns by dragging them back up. I presume this is to prevent deleting information accidentally, however, if the cells are empty I don't see why this can't be done 
 
If you want to remove the column/row you can select it and right click and choose Delete Row
However if you have more than one row/column selected you cannot choose to Delete Rows!
 No option to Delete Rows 
 

To delete more than one Row/Column you have to use the Table menu and choose "Delete Rows" or "Delete Columns"
 

Onto the calendar!

Select the top row and right click and choose Merge Cells
 
 

View>Studio>Table (I believe this menu and sub menus are subject to change)
 

Select your table and add some "Insets" so the text doesn't butt up against the cell wall - this is optional and you can adjust to how you like. 
Very important to ensure you're on the CELLS portion - there is an option for the FRAME - which is above in the screenshot of the Table Panel, this is relating to the Frame the table sits in and not the Table Properties.
That's a bit confusing becuase you'd expect the Table options to the forefront of the options, however, not a major issue! 
 
 

In fact it's all optional - I'm leaving mine plain because I want to show another feature.
Insert the Month top row - days on the 2nd row - and leave the 3rd row blank.
Select the entire 3rd row and go to View>Studio>Paragraph
 
Expand the Bullets and Numbering List! 
 


Choose 1. 2. 3. 4.
 
Change the text section to read as. 
 


Note - when you edit this panel option - you need to hit Return - this shouldn't be the case - if you don't hit return your changes won't be implemented. 

Your table should now look like this!
 
 

Grab the TAB as shown before - to expand the table to add more rows. 
 
January 2019 starts on a Tuesday (any calendar will tell you that 
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Cool feature! You can select cells noncontiguous - that means they don't have to be beside each other. 

To do this - select the A3 cell - then let go of the mouse to leave it highlighted. Press the CMD key (possibly CTRL on PC) which is the "modifier key" then select the remaining cells. 

From the List Type in the Paragraph Panel - you can then set this to NO LIST.
 
 



Your table will now automatically renumber to ensure all the days have the correct number assigned.
 
    Drag the handle down on the side of the table - to make it fill the page! 
   



Select the numbered rows - right click and select distribute rows evenly


   



Duplicate your page


   



Rename Month to February 

January ended on a Thursday - so February starts on a Friday and February 2018 has 28 days. 
   





Select the first 3 days - and set the Paragraph Numbering to No List
   



Voila! February is Done! 
   





Add your icons! 
   

Now you can repeat the steps to make the remaining calendar months! 


Download the file here 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jrww5ta141zzck3/Calendar.afpub?dl=0

Hi @derlange 58,
column span is currently not available. The only work around I know is to create the headline as a seperate artistic text and assign it Text Wrap 'Jump'.
This is a poor workaround because the headline does not flow with the text.
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This option is not available in Publisher at the moment, but the community has asked for it in a number of posts.

Many Thanks, i do this
 

You can create 1 page, with one text frame, and insert all of your text into it. Then, if you shift-click on the red triangle near the bottom right of the frame, Publisher will create as many additional pages, with duplicate text frames, as it needs to hold all the text.

Hi,
This is the logo (Affinity Photo and Designer), they are downloadable somewhere in this site (but I can't remember where).
There's licence informations too.
 
Affinity-vector-logo.zip