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Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes Status: Beta Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download: Here To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. Notable changes: - Added support for Pantone colours - including PDF/X import and export. - New blend mode - “Contrast Invert”. Try typing some black text over a gradient black->white area and choose this blend mode. - Fix for incorrectly exporting the opposite of what the user requested with the ‘1x’/‘2x’/‘3x’ options in Export Persona. - Fix for documents with Pixel unit types incorrectly loading into the Mac App Store version (just open your document and save it again in this version to fix). - Keyboard shortcuts should now work properly for view zooming and are now properly saved for tools. - Certain adjustments (Levels, Curves, Channel Mixer) can now be applied in any colour space - so you could add a LAB curves adjustment to an RGB document, for example. - The Move Tool can now be told to move an object, but not children of that object: It’s an option on the context toolbar and will only show up if you have a non-group object selected which has children (a curve which clips a number of other curves, for example). - Numerous PSD export / import improvements - Some fixes that should help create PSD files that FCPX and Motion can import. Fixed import vector masking issue with subtractive masks. PSD export can now export efficient flat image which decreases files sizes for flat RGB images).. - You can now double click the empty view (with no documents loaded) to load a document. - Numerous improvements to vector import / export - especially for PDF/X. - Numerous Help improvements. - Numerous minor bug fixes.