Uncle Mez

Status: Public Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
Hi, we have a preview of Publisher build 162 now available. It is available on auto-update and also provided as a manual download from the link above.
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.
New Features / Changes
- It is now possible to select the desired Page Box for a Placed PDF
- Added facility to apply a Master Page to a Master Page
- Snapping is now enabled by default for Publisher from a clean start
Fix List
Menus / Toolbars / Studio / Dialogs
- (Mac) Fixed issue where installing a font with a dialog open could cause a hang
- Fixed drawing of Layer Panel names containing extended characters
- (Windows) Text Frame description in the Layers Panel no longer expands with text
- Fixed nomenclature inconsistencies in the Pages Panel
- (Mac) Fixed some large UI font issues with Pages UI
- Fix for Style names in Styles Panel not displaying
New Documents / Import / Export
- Fixes for a number of crashes reported when opening pre-157 documents
- Page orientation checkbox could be incorrectly checked 
- (Mac) Fixed overlapping controls on Export to TIFF
Document View
- (Windows) Fixed issue with Render on 125% scaled screens being 'blurry'
- (Mac) Cursor position not shown on vertical ruler for spreads after first
Objects
- Fixed Rasterising an Object so that it no longer clips to the Spread
Text
- Fixed Spelling Checker / Check Spelling as you Type
- Fix for text not aligning correctly with horizontal scaling and tab stop leader
- 'Create Character Style' now creates an empty character style if no selection
- (Windows) Edit Text Style Character Variants lower limit now clamped at 0
- Fixed crash when pasting text into multi column frame with Hide Overflow and Text Ruler enabled
- Find and Replace - Re-instated ability to replace with 'nothing'
- Find and Replace - Fixed UI discrepancies between Mac / Windows
Tables
- (Mac) Column and row headers were missing for tables not on first spread
Font Manager
- (Windows) Font Manager now displays column resize cursor
- (Windows) Other Font Manager inconsistencies
 

Hello everyone, today i want to share this achieved milestone from my channel.
After 2 published videos (short and really fast) you guys are still giving us your attention, so, THANK YOU so Much !
Also big thanks to Affinity Team @MattP @MEB @Patrick Connor and other guy from Serif.
The Product you develop enabled me to reach this and make better stuffs: Snapping being the real deal that help me do great stuffs !

This is brilliant!

Hello @AdamW thank you so much for this updated info.
Previous version of Publisher beta (.145) was already a great tool on my side despite this or that i may wanted to see but it was so great.
Now i'll download this one and give it a test run to see how it differs and better my workflow.
Blessings !

Please Click here to download the latest beta for macOS 
Status: Public Beta
Purpose: General Testing
Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
Hi, we have a preview of build 157 now available. We hope to put it on auto-update next week but for now it is a manual download.
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.
Vector and Photo Personas
- The Vector and Photo Personas will not be ready until later in the beta. The message captions you get when you select these options have been updated to be more direct and reflect this.
Known Issues
- On MacOS Mojave, on non-retina displays, the default highlight colour used in several places is pale blue and the contrast with white text is poor.
New Features
- The Tools toolbar has been re-organised. Requires 'Clear User Defaults' on start-up
- Column Guides (Grid Guides) for master spreads and spreads have been added
- Additional spaces and special characters have been added to the Text > Insert menu
- The facility to specify precision for readout of angles has been added in Preferences
- Document History now supports multiple redo paths
Fixes
Menus, Main View and Studio
- Updated the icon used to represent tables in the Layers panel
- View > Preview Mode now hides snapping candidates
- Fixed issue where switching from master view to page view could display wrong spread
- Improved 'Zoom to Fit' to account for rulers
- Docked panel menus could be generated incorrectly after docking a floating panel
- Fixed issues with the new 'Lock Colourspace' button appearing in the colour control when not relevant
- (Mac) Page panel thumbnails now show correct colour when using CMYK document profile 
- (Mac) Text Frame Panel contents could be corrupted on lower resolutions 
- (Windows) Added missing ruler origin menu and operations 
- (Windows) Fixed rendering issue that could occur with multiple displays at different display scales 
Document Setup
- Fixed order of tabs on New Document / Document Setup for consistency
- Applied master page margin now remembered after document close and re-open
- Changing document DPI now resizes applied master page elements correctly
- Fixed master page / symbol sync issue
- (Windows) Continue and Restart page numbering was disabled for first section 
Text
- Fixed crash when double clicking text frame size handles with move tool selected
- Fixed selection issues with Text Frame Linking tool
- Triple-click in text now selects a line. Quadruple-click selects a paragraph
- Fixed inability to delete various text breaks easily
- Fixed issue with right aligned tabs initially appearing outside the text frame
- Rasterising a linked Text Frame now removes the frame from the text flow correctly
- Hiding a text frame also hides tool outlines for any nested text frames
- Fixed hang when auto-fitting text to a text frame when a page break is present
- Fixed crash expanding fields on master spreads
- 'Ignore Text Wraps' for a text frame was incorrectly being set 'Off' by default
- Fix text wrap issue with large wrap objects
- Fix slow processing / hang when text wrapping around complex grouped curves
- Text Wrap borders are now saved as defaults for new objects when modified
- Fixed OpenType font metrics issue with Stylistic Sets, Small Caps etc
- Fixed issue editing Stylistic Set variants in Text Styles
- Fixed spacing issues when ligatures present in fields
- Fixed issue with Contextual Alternates lookups affecting certain fonts
- Fix for paragraph decorations failing when combining Strokes / Fills and Transparency
- Fixed issue with Text styles > Reset Formatting not always working
- Fixed text Styles UI not correctly updating when tab stop is changed to right aligned
- The option to toggle Unicode (U+nnnn) representation of text has been added to the Text menu
- Added additional validation when opening hyphenation and dictionary files
- (Mac) Fixed UI issue with tab stop leaders in the Text Style dialog 
- (Windows) Fixed input of diacritics on some non-English keyboards 
Tables
- Fixed crash when pasting end of paragraph into last cell of table
Find and Replace
- Optimisations when 'Replacing All'
- Fix when filtering by font size with scaled frames
Images
- Replace Image now offers Affinity file types
- Picture Frame Tool now has fill set to 'None'
- Fixed crash when using text wrap on placed PSD with empty layer
- (Mac) Image dragged from Finder now honours embedded / linked placement option 
Font Manager
- Font Manager cosmetic and usability improvements
- Fix for font traits not being honoured if modified when substituting in Font Manager
TOC
- Fixed issues when duplicating TOC styles
Import / Export / Printing
- N-Up now takes bleed into account when spacing
- N-Up fixed calculations involving top value and vertical gap
- When printing multiple Artboards the preview now honours the full range
- (Mac) Fixed Export to Folder breaks when folder name has special characters 
- (Mac) Improved detection of text encoding when inserting text files 
- (Windows) 'Save As' for an opened PDF can fail to add the Affinity file extension 
- Plus miscellaneous crash fixes
Previous Publisher build .7.0.145 fixlist contains earlier fixes. 

+1 for Publisher to become able to import DOC/DOCX/RTF file content.
It will be very useful for those who do Book Editing and Publishing using APub.
Blessings !

PNG and JPEG are RGB file formats, they are not CMYK. RGB = Computer Screen, CMYK = Printing Press.
An Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer document can be either RGB or CMYK and we can mix and match imported files but there is no way an image of any format can be exported to a nonexistent CMYK PNG because such a file does not exist. Apples and Oranges, both fruit but orange seeds won't grow an apple tree.

Asked the same similar function in another thread ... i'm just happy to see that it's picking up.
We shoudl be able to add our own subscriptions like pixabay etc or even other paid stock sites, i've tried the one proposed in ADesigner and they work very well and make it kind of fun.
Serif Team should consider to make it possible for us to also register to those stocks sites as we all don't know them, we should be able throught an assistant to register and even pay (secure payment) and even buy or register Affinity from themselves because sometimes i personaly am lazy enough to open another page/tab on my web browser to do so ...

Hi matt.baker,
This is not the same nor as complete as Illustrator isolation mode - I just don't know if you are aware of it - but if you press and hold ⌥ (option/alt) and click a layer/object in the Layers panel Affinity will isolate it for editing (if the layer is already highlighted/selected in the Layers panel ⌥ (option/alt)-click the thumbnail instead) until you click on somewhere else.

Try changing the Controller from None to Automatic, then draw your line. Now switch to the Stroke Studio and adjust the pressure.

This is a portrait of my Triumph Tiger 800.
 

Hope you will enjoy the thing behind the link !
https://blog.fps.hu/274-vector-solid-icons-for-free/

I thought it was recently indicated by another staff member that the betas would not unlock the personas?

Hi Alexis,
Bienvenue sur les forums.
1. Nous souhaiterions créer un gestionnaire d’actifs, mais nous n’avons pas d’ETA.
2. Nous n'avons pas l'intention de créer un service cloud. Nous aimerions avoir une synchronisation en direct entre les applications, mais encore une fois, pas d'ETA.
3. Nous ne prévoyons pas de prendre en charge les paramètres prédéfinis de Lightroom, car Lightroom est DAM et Affinity Photo est un éditeur de photos sans possibilité de catalogage.
Merci,
Gabe.

I have to agree on gradient meshes. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I used the gradient mesh tool in Illustrator. It was one of those features that always seemed like it would be really powerful, but in practice was always too hard to get looking just right. 
Illustrator's new freeform gradient tool looks like a big step up, but honestly, I think Affinity Designer still needs to walk before it runs. Fancy gradients are good headline grabbers, but there are other, more basic tools like blend / live repeat, scatter brushes, and vector/pattern strokes that Illustrator has had for over twenty years and Affinity Designer is heading into its fourth without.

Camera: Nikon D3100
Lens: 5X microscope objective
Number of frames: 223
Time taken by computer to process focus merge in AP : 1 hr 20 mts
Length of the yellow anther: 3mm
The vertical member is the pistil.
Rose color are of the petals.
Name of flower: Ixora coccinea
A picture of the full flower is also shown to get relative feel of the magnification.
 

there needs to be some form of additional revenue streams other than the one time purchase of the application. Adobe's solution was subscriptions. Traditionally one time purchase software only receives small incremental changes and updates because there is a lack of new revenue other than new sales. We are unlikely to see huge new features being added to products already released, in my opinion.

If serif ran a poll and stated they would implement three highly suggested features but that it would cost them 1.5 million CAD to create ... how would the community support such?

Maybe stated differently - if users want those three features and it will cost 1.5 million to put into place but the funds are not there ...
 
One possible solution? Collaborative editing via a cloud based system that you subscribe to. Adobe has been unable to do this, and if Serif pulled that off you would see a huge shift.

Free Macro Pack! 
affinityfilmpresets.pb.studio/ 
 
 

Hi Scott Williams,
Affinity Photo and Designer 1.7 beta should be available in a couple weeks so you don't have to wait much longer to try the new features.

The beta build will stop working after the software is released
There will be no discount for beta testers, no.

Also the way Affinity handles deleting nodes is also makes the select and delete method a bit unintuitive.
The default action for deleting a node/nodes in affinity leaves the control handles of the remaining nodes unchanged, the shape is not maintained.
Apps such as Corel Draw automatically try to re-adjust the remaining control handles to maintain the original shape of the line. Affinity does this too, but requires you to hold the OPTION modifier to activate this feature.  I'm not sure if this action was carried over into the iPad version (unfortunately, I've been eagerly awaiting the release of the new iPad so i can get into it).
I have a feature request in to add an option to select which default action the delete key performs (default to either compensation or no-compensation), but I haven't heard anything about it.
 

@Bob Grahame You can get utilities that will do this for you on the fly, temporarily displaying them as an overlay on your screen.  I'm on a Mac and recently/finally bought Ergonis' KeyCue.  Here's an example showing my current shortcuts in beta 1.7.0.145.  Note that this includes a few that I have defined myself and should not be regarded as the default set.  Note also that what KeyCue displays is interactive, not just a static graphic that you see here.
Still on Macs, there is at least one other utility that you could try which is free: CheatSheet, from Media Atelier.
I'd be surprised if there wasn't something similar available for Windows users.

Hello @IsabelAracama well personaly i'm a big fan of gradient and the way they can make a composition even dreamy or simply good enough but never get my hand to it with Adobe products, it was frustrating but then came Affinity where i actually got to the point of gradient and how to create them and the color theory thing.
That was a bit of story ... Now ! that new tool is just great and very useful when we consider it is always a nightmare to create and abstract background (we're not all Mozart nor Pablo Picasso )
i suggest Affinity to come up with something even better, why would you ask?
Simply because i perceive a bit of Styles thing we have in ADesigner mixed with the already existing Ai Mesh tool.
To me Serif need to bring a real Nec-PLus-Ultra : Free Gradient, Blend/interpolate Tool, Shape builder and keep improving the snapping in the products we use.
Reall it's pure merveille to work with APub for printing projects (i've done few personal things and they just made young peoples go crazy around me) but keep making the product even professional.
in the same time, Chapeau to Adobe for the way they improve their interface and it's whole actions (flipping menus ... they also got inspired by Serif for iPad for this and simply ported it to desktop ...  ... my joke to world).
Well ... let's improve !

Nicely done, Arnaud, but why use a Google shortened URL to link to your YouTube channel?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrSmA90OQM8S9L-C6upZ4A

Subsribed, I hope you will post more interesting videos.