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I'm sure you guys are working hard and so meekly ask if there is an approximate ETA for the Designer beta. I only ask because I'm holding back on using Publisher beta until StudioLink is fully active.

The beta tester price is 35$.
 
I guess the first published version will be 1.8 
The 1.x versions were the beta, it would look nice to have the launch version start as 2.0

@Chris B Clearing user data got the layers panel back as expected.

@MEB Thanks for the update. Hopefully, this fix is on the top of the list.

I got an award this year for my project final and they wanted me to make a short video for it. This was mostly for the book (which is on my Instagram profile) but I thought it was worthy of also bringing up here since the poster was done in Affinity Designer. I first tried to make it in Quark where the book was made but realized it was too difficult to rotate individual letters due to Quark text box funkiness. Maybe I will make a book in Affinity someday too!
 

I got an award this year for my project final and they wanted me to make a short video for it. This was mostly for the book (which is on my Instagram profile) but I thought it was worthy of also bringing up here since the poster was done in Affinity Designer. I first tried to make it in Quark where the book was made but realized it was too difficult to rotate individual letters due to Quark text box funkiness. Maybe I will make a book in Affinity someday too!
 

Serif have made available a customer beta of Affinity Photo for MacOS 1.7.2.146
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.7.1 version recently released to all customers. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
Changes since 1.7.1 (.141)
Selection refinement - performance and stability improvements. Fixed clone brush issues when sampling from current layer & below. Inpainting performance improvements. Import 16bit half float JPEG-XR files properly. Allow .jxr files to be dragged in. Text performance improvements. Improved LAB colour conversions. Fixed healing brush bugs. Fixed badly placed stepper buttons in tone mapping UI. Pantone palettes are now sorted alphabetically. Fixed crash when starting app in a folder containing weird characters. Fixed yellow colour cast on certain DNG files. Fixed 360 degree images losing metadata on export. Localisation improvements.
 

Hmm... maybe flip them upside down?

It might be even better to make an even more substantial look between the beta and shipping product icons too.

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It is not a slap in the face. You are getting a product at a price that is vastly cheaper then the competition. I see the version number more as a number for the suite then for the individual product. If a bigger update (like a version 2.0) is in the works I am sure it would also take longer to make so I can't see it being released soon anyways.

Status: GM Preview
Purpose: Improvements and Fixes
Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above
Download: No longer available
Auto-update: No longer available
Hi,
We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Build 399 (GM Preview) is now available as a download from the link above. This is the build we hope to  ship to customers next week.
After launch we will start a new Customer Beta for those who have purchased the software and wish to have early access to on-going updates and fixes.
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 to all users in the forum who have helped us get to where we are - we couldn't have done it without you.
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Fixes and updates
Menus / Studio
Turned 'Clip To Canvas' off by default for Publisher only
Moved Stock panel to left had side in default studio setup
Shadows and Highlights updates
(Mac) Selection of swatch in Swatch Palette now considers overprint
(Win) Custom panel height is no longer reset on reopening the app
(Win) Fixes for Gradient Colour selector
(Win) Setting CMYK Colour profile in preferences was blanking Grey profile
(Win) Fixed Tint slider for Column Guides colour
(Mac) Fix for HSL Adjustment crashing on some setups
Tools
Fixed Drag-clone with Alt behaviour in Move Tool
Text / Tables
Fixed possible hang processing 'Keep With Next'
Fixed possible hang resizing table cells
Apply with Next Style was producing local formatting only
Fix for crash deleting pinned images in specific file
Setting capitalisation options on fields was causing them to disappear
Find and Replace
Updated search results to not display <U+XXXX> notation
Index
Fix issue with stale index topics failing to save correctly
Import / Export
Fixed issue exporting zero size bitmaps
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Earlier Release Notes Beta 384

Are you seriously thinking about spending or not spending $40 for a pro level dtp software because you THINk there MIGHT be a paid update next year or not?
Either you like Publisher and want to spend the money, or you want to wait until it has a specific feature that you are currently missing and wait until then.
Don't overthink what could be and that you could be disappointed about something that might or might not happen next year and could or not could cost you 40 bucks that you don't need to spend if you don't need or want the new features or not that might or might not get programmed ... this kind of doubt and overthinking just makes you unhappy.

It is not a slap in the face. You are getting a product at a price that is vastly cheaper then the competition. I see the version number more as a number for the suite then for the individual product. If a bigger update (like a version 2.0) is in the works I am sure it would also take longer to make so I can't see it being released soon anyways.

It is not a slap in the face. You are getting a product at a price that is vastly cheaper then the competition. I see the version number more as a number for the suite then for the individual product. If a bigger update (like a version 2.0) is in the works I am sure it would also take longer to make so I can't see it being released soon anyways.

The original post by Seadog is non-positive and therefore, by Seadog’s own reasoning, should not have been posted. In the interests of keeping a positive nature to the forum I suggest that it might be beneficial to the general happiness of the community if the post were removed so that only positive comments can be seen without having all this negativity. Having said that, this post is non-positive towards Seadog’s post and therefore it should also be removed for the same reason. Also, my last sentence is non-positive towards what has been said earlier and so… <repeat ad nauseam>
Note: This is not a serious suggestion. I only mention it to demonstrate a point, a point which I think should be reasonably clear.

Never heard of those, I'll have to look into them. I started using pdfToolbox since that is usually what they talk about in the Quark forums for some reason.

I got Nuance PaperPort 12 SE free with WordPerfect X6 as a document manager. I picked up the Corel PDF Fusion from a charity shop with a suite of software for £1.
Apparently Nuance have some draconian registration issues. So a bundled SE version might be a better option. I think PDF Fusion is arounf £20.

It will be a 20% discount on launch, so for you yes $5USD

Hi wobmann,
We do have plans for an Affinity Publisher workbook.

Hi All,
We're thrilled to announce that Affinity Publisher will be launched at Affinity Live on the 19th June - and it's also available to pre-order now with a 20% discount.
We are going to live stream the event keynote at 6.15pm (BST) which will also include announcements on our future plans and perhaps a few surprises. For more info check out our spotlight article here. Would be great if you could join us...
Thanks,
Ash
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Here is a video of the event
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I've been using publisher for several months now. IN the earlier beta stages it was not as functional as PP. Now, the latest release beta, which is, I think, similar to the release candidate, is clearly superior to PP9. It still does NOT open PP files, I believe, so you would need to start a fresh file, but I can now do everything I could with PP 9, and more, as efficiently, if not more so.
Len G
Oregon

My jaw didn't so much drop… it fell to the floor and smashed to pieces.
Thanks for the dental bill, Affinity!

I would have thought those older betas would have expired by now.

Will this maybe free up some of your time so you can make a DAM?