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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: - Artboards. These are still work-in-progress and you can expect a few niggles, but at least you can see the direction we're heading. At present we still need to add auto-slice creation to Export Persona for artboards and we also show an occasional flicker when adding artboards: these will be fixed before the next update. We also need to move guide, grid and rulers to work per-artboard, so these are currently not as they will be in the final release and will be fixed asap. - Global colours. - Full support for P3 panels found in the new 5k iMac and 4k iMac. If you have one of these you can try making a new RGB8 document with ProPhoto profile and choosing RGB(255,0,0) or RGB(0,255,0) as the colour of your objects - they should look richer and more vivid than you are used to seeing. - View points added to the Navigator. The Navigator has an advanced mode that lets you choose to create and swap between specific view zoom/position saved points. - Font fixes. Specifically, a number of font-related crashes have been addressed - Export/Import improvements - particularly PDF. - Fix for Text tool failing to accept certain characters (those that were mapped to other shortcuts!) - Snapping improved for Rotation Centre. Rotation Centre is available from the Move Tool's context toolbar. - Pantone/named colour/tint improvements. Selecting an object which has a Pantone colour will automatically choose the tint options in the colour panel. - Canvas rotation. The canvas can be rotated by using the touchpad's rotate gesture or by using the View menu items 'Rotate Left', 'Rotate Right' or 'Reset Rotation'. - Fix for colour conversion issues exhibited with HSL colours in RGB document formats. - Character & Paragraph panel improvements. - Typography panel show visually the effects of different OpenType features. Select some text and go to the Typography panel - this will show you the available options for your current font and text selection. Try changing fonts for more options. - Printer’s marks and bleed available for output. The export options for PDF now include these additional options, as does the Print dialog. - Smart Tap feature. Toggle between the current zoom and 100% by double-tapping with two fingers on the trackpad. This is useful for designing up close and being able to easily refer to a 100% view and then back again. - Updated splash screens. These are necessary as we need to include Pantone licensing information. - Added Split-toning adjustment. This is available from the Layers panel's adjustments menu and the main Layers->Adjustments menu. - Snapshots panel. This panel (disabled by default) allows you to take a snapshot of the document in the current state and refer back to it at later points. - Added shortcuts for the different Personas. These can be customised by the user as desired.

Hi, Got this weird thing happening when using pen tool and hovering over a point. Thanks