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Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes Status: Release Candidate 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. Please note that if you use features which are only present in the Beta version then save your document, it will no longer open in the Mac App Store version. This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received :) We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live. Features / Improvements / Fixes - Implemented font-fallback logic. This means that users typing characters which are not in the current font should see the character represented by a fallback font automatically - Artboards can now be dragged around by their labels - Artboards now show guides and grids clipped to the current artboard. Margins update correctly during resizing artboards - Artboards maintain their own snapping grid and show them correctly, clipped to the current artboard - Ruler origin and Transform panel translation is aware of artboards now and correctly reflects the artboard origin. - Artboards now automatically appear in the Export Persona - Added ‘New Layer’ menu item (we already had ‘New Pixel Layer’ but had interestingly forgotten to add ‘New Layer’!) - Recently used fonts section of the font dropdown now also includes all fonts in the current document - Fix for crash when closing documents - Miscellaneous translation improvements - PSD export now handles Registration colour and tint. Miscellaneous import improvements for compatibility with other PSD originators - Fix for rotation and shear not working reliably from the Transform panel - Fix for redraw issues while transforming objects with wide strokes - Fix for groups of horizontal or vertical lines causing stability issues in some cases - Export Slice stability improvements - Improved snapping for the Fill Tool - TIFF export now correctly supports alpha in all colour formats - Fix for importing very large TIFF images - Many PDF export improvements - Print panel now restores itself correctly to the last used settings