Staff AdamW Posted October 30, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 30, 2019 Status: Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Windows Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not Available --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.499) is now available as a download from the link above. As this is a 'Stability and General Testing' 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 beta, 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 and Major Improvements Improved master page handling when adding single pages in a facing page document Adding single pages to a facing page document with facing masters no longer shuffles master pages from left to right or vice versa. Migrate frame contents when replacing Masters Option to 'Clear' or 'Migrate' content when replacing a master which has modified text / image content on the target page. Available via Pages Panel 'Apply Master…' etc. Re-order Master Spreads Added the facility to re-order Master Spreads using drag drop in the Pages panel. Merge Documents Facility to merge specified pages from one document into the current document. Available via Pages Panel context menu or Document > Add Pages from File... Linked 'Embedded Document' Resources Better handling of Linked 'Embedded Document' resources to prevent files with such resources bloating on save. Collect Resources Facility to collect all up-to-date linked document resources in a single specified folder. Available via Resource Manager. Find and Replace MRUs MRU lists for recent Find and Replaces, available on the field drop menus on the Find and Replace Panel. Anchor Panel To manage Hyperlink Anchors. Access via View > Studio > Anchors. PANTONE Updated PANTONE Solid and Bridge Palettes for September 2019 update (Link) Text Features Last line outdent. Drop Caps now let you set the number of characters dropped. Indent to Here. Add Right Indent Tab. Insert from the Text Menu Added additional fields, plus option to show the Fields Panel. TOC Added option to skip line breaks in a TOC. Added option to skip or include inline images in a TOC. --- General Fixes and Minor Improvements Open / Import "Make a copy" and "Continue" buttons when opening a non-beta project file were reversed Improve support for DeviceN bitmaps based on LAB colour space on PDF import Document Management When moving pages, transform pasteboard content so it doesn't end up on spread Margins change with document DPI on non-master pages General / Tools Added option to make bleed of embedded Affinity documents visible Strokes on master page objects now extend into the page bleed area Setting K-Only for a missing linked image caused crash Linked images that fail to load now fall back to previews Fixed Populate Picture Frames across multiple artboards Convert to Picture Frame was disabled for EPS (Win) Create Palette from CMYK images imports as RGB (Win) Fix for inconsistent document tabbing Text Can now use <Ctrl> / <Cmd> (Win / Mac) to link multiple text frames When linking text frames stories are now concatenated Preserve Manual Position not reflected correctly in Pinning Panel Add special hyphenation rules for solidus (U+002F) to distinguish e.g. fractions Changing spread / artboard in an Embedded Document now updates Text Wrap Fixed default wrapping around Embedded Documents with transparency Prevent table cell separators from being copied to non-tables (fix for non-deletable breaks) Fixed auto-correct bug entering double spaces Fixed line endings for Paragraph decorations Now possible to remove arrowheads if inadvertently applied to Text Frame Leading override could not be set to Auto in Text Style Text with 'No break' did not always break before the no break Fixed hyphenation issues in last line of column (Mac) Missing font dropdown doesn't list missing fonts (Win) Spell check identifies numbers mixed with other characters as incorrectly spelt Tables Adjusting Table properties for multiple cells fails if selected cell already has the desired property Fixed possible crash when auto fitting table to text Find and Replace Fixes for skipping occurrences when replacing Tidied up finding around end of text Hyperlinks Fixes for hyperlinks in Tables Hyperlinks are no longer generated in PDF output if hidden Fixes for Hyperlink panel not always displaying correct page of link target Fixed hyperlink bugs when switching to / from facing pages Glyph Browser Glyph Browser now always renders glyphs at screen scale DocX Importing tables from docx files could fail to import formatting resulting in crash Fields Added yyyy-MM-dd date format Resources Linked images - Context toolbar not updated after converting to embedding Filenames with underscores not displayed correctly in Resource Manager Font Manager Font Manager 'Locate' did not locate full runs Export / Print Prevent spurious warnings about overflow text in text frames that won't be output anyhow Overprint Black now only sets to overprint if tint set to 100% Fix for "Rasterise nothing" was causing PDF export failure in certain circumstances (Win) Print dialog wasn't always removing the red overlay after page had been scaled to fit --- To be notified about all future Windows beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread Wosven, walt.farrell, Uwe367 and 13 others 8 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Great looking list of improvements and fixes; thanks! Patrick Connor and Jon P 1 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Really great job guys. Thanks. Patrick Connor 1 All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykee Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Fantastic list, and improvements! Many and great thanks for all! I will testing in next days. Patrick Connor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
design punch Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Unfortunatly the download link seems to have a problem. runs only 20-30 kb/s (= 3-4 hours download time), even so I have a fast connection (other downloads working well). installaton is not possible then. Windows claims some "no value side-by-side-connection" problems (whatever this means !?) System new start & another browser = same problem? Is there any solution? Thanks for an answer. Gnobelix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnobelix Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 46 minutes ago, design punch said: Unfortunatly the download link seems to have a problem. runs only 20-30 kb/s (= 3-4 hours download time), even so I have a fast connection (other downloads working well). installaton is not possible then. Windows claims some "no value side-by-side-connection" problems (whatever this means !?) System new start & another browser = same problem? Is there any solution? Thanks for an answer. The same problem here. In the past there were no problems with the download. I'm curious what explanation there is for this problem. Thanks for the many improvements, great job Cheers Affinity Photo 2.5: Affinity Photo 1.10.6: Affinity Designer 2.5: Affinity Designer 1.10.6: Affinity Publisher 2.5: Affinity Publisher 1.10.6: Windows 11 Pro (Version 24H2 Build (26100.2454) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 2 hours ago, design punch said: Unfortunatly the download link seems to have a problem. runs only 20-30 kb/s (= 3-4 hours download time), even so I have a fast connection (other downloads working well). installaton is not possible then. Windows claims some "no value side-by-side-connection" problems (whatever this means !?) System new start & another browser = same problem? Is there any solution? Thanks for an answer. The beta download file seems to be hosted on an Amazon AWS server, somewhere. Possibly you have a poor network connection to wherever that Amazon server is located. From my US location the download runs at over 5MB/second. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
design punch Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Hi, Walt tried tonight again - 13 hours later - it become faster again (130 kb/s) ... and installation worked now. This seemed to be rather a download limitation on amazons side ... I downloaded 1,3 GB today from blackmagic/california with 5MB/s without any problem Same speed with LibreOffice update. walt.farrell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe367 Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Thank you for the new Beta and thank you for new Featuers, Improvements and Fixes. The App runs fast and stable and the installation on Win 10 was working without any Problems. Well done guys. Thumbs up Have a nice day. Ich wünsche einen schönen Tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archangel Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 Still no Footnotes or Endnotes? Oh well ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BertilT Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Looking for a substitute for the InDesign Book concept, I am most interested in how the new Merge functionality behaves. In particular regarding how styles from the merged document are managed. Is there any documentation available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Seidel Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I am trying out the new Beta (1.8.0.499) of Publisher but it seems every time I try to add a tab stop to a paragraph style Publisher crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted November 12, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 12, 2019 @Johann Seidel Please report bugs in beta builds in new threads in this forum, not the announcement thread, in case we need to start a longer discussion to get to the bottom of a problem. However this particular 1.8.0 regression has already been fixed in the next forthcoming Publisher beta (and I believe 1.8.0.502 will be released shortly) so there is no need for a new thread in this case. Thanks for the report. Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted November 12, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 12, 2019 @Johann Seidel That's logged with us and should be fixed in the next beta we make available Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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