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.
Fixes
Changed tool shortcuts (optionally, default is off) to allow SHIFT to loop through grouped shortcuts (e.g. SHIFT+B to loop through brush tools)
Fixed copied colour name being incorrect when source was a named colour
Fixed shortcuts not working when a previewable combo box had focus
Fixed cursor keys not working on Blend Mode combo box
Added ability to include an identifier (normally email address) in crash reports so we can more easily locate crashes (users of the beta with Microsoft Store licences can't access this yet)
Fixed being unable to resize Procedural Texture UI by dragging
Fixed Procedural Texture UI extending when filling the Equations field
Fixed crash when closing the application with the Character panel open
Fixed Jpeg2000 loading bug
Always show primary and secondary colours in the colour page when using brush tools
Fixed PSDLoading creating incompatible masks
Fixed 16-bit luminosity blend mode rendering issues
Renamed "PNG-24" preset name to just "PNG" as it's misleading
Added K-only option for Grayscale images
Fixed Insert Text from File Right Click Menu
Fixed Tool's information label to use the correct decimal separator
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.
Fixes
Fixed drag drop from Explorer to floating Document Windows
Fixed Combine Identical remaining enabled for text styles
Fixed Punctuation stops Capitalise first word of sentence from working
Fixed Tools toolbar leaving monitor viewport when undocking
Fixed failure to save if HEIC file is used in document
Fixed drag/drop text from Explorer
Fixed snapping to guides and page edges
Fixed importing of user items in correct order
Fixed Drop Caps misaligned when using Baseline grid
Fixed incorrect curve printing
Fixed incorrect codepage mapping for code page 950
Fixed crash loading corrupt BMP files
Allow right mouse button to be pressed when capturing numeric input for tools (currently for use with Flow in brush tools)
Fixed Pen Tool not snapping to grid unless you zoom in/out first
Fixed scrolling history with mouse wheel removes highlight
Fixed print copies limited to 99
Changed TIFF export to use Adobe deflate instead, as it's more common
Fixed sporadic PSD export crash
Fixed Brush preview not updating immediately when adding/modifying sub-brushes
Fixed Basic Grid failing to show 'Spacing' and 'Divisions' entry boxes on Grid and Axis Manager
Fixed being unable to select a crop preset
Fixed sub-brush 'Sync' checkboxes not remembering state correctly
Added missing Duplicate Brush from Brush panel context menu
Fixed creation of CMYK tint colour chord creating RGB swatches
Fixed changing of document DPI to no longer resize the document
Allow linear profiles for all RGB formats on import (but still try to dissuade incorrect use by not offering them in the convert dialog)
Prevent dragging of locked layers
Fixed Edit in Photo/Designer preventing the application from closing
Fixed Greek uppercase to not have tonas
Fixed hang after exporting to external drive then removing drive
Fixed letterspacing to apply to spaces as well as other characters
Fixed embedded documents not exporting masks to PDF correctly
Fixed PDF export of documents containing palettised PNG
Fixed Document Zoom Level changing to 'Fit' when a Symbol is dragged out
Fixed textured vector brushes failing to show correctly in Brush Editor
Fixed crash when adding to a symbol after deleting all the children in one detached instance
Fixed Asset sub-category order not remembered after closing app
Remember Create Artboard checkbox state
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