Staff AdamW Posted December 2, 2019 Staff Posted December 2, 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 (1.8.0.518) 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 Embedded Document Bounding Boxes There are more options for setting the bounding box of placed documents to bound only content, visible content etc Fixes and Smaller Updates Main Workspace (Win) Scroll extents not recalculated when switching between Master and Normal views Page Management Allow you to add pages by dragging and dropping a master between existing pages Drag and drop a master to a spread to apply it Resizing master page via File > Spread Setup doesn't offer to resize associated document pages Improved labelling of Master Page Instances Can now lock / unlock objects under Master Page Instances Merge Documents Miscellaneous Fixes Added import of Document Sections Added management of Page Hyperlinks on import Image Resources Fixed possible crash / hang reopening documents with specific linked images Fix for Embedded Documents not always remembering current active page when reloaded Artboards can become out of sync if added / removed in linked afdesign documents Effects / Filters Fixed conversion of effect parameter values to depend on Document DPI Fix for Live Perspective Filter in a document with bleed Text Can now set Text Frames column gutter from the context toolbar A value of 0 for 'Allow Max Consecutive Hyphens' is now used to indicate no limit Column Rules Text Frame Panel sections missing or out of sync Various Column Rules fixes Hyperlinks Expanded Hyperlink Studio character limit for Name field DOCX Import Installed fonts being incorrectly substituted after Word placement IDML Import Some placed images not imported Text frame pinned within text frame not importing content Fixed crash due to issue decoding URL strings of file paths XLSX Import Fixes for XSLX files imported from LibreOffice Fix for last column shrinking on XLSX import Fixed crash placing XLSX files into text frames (Mac) Fixes for XLSX files imported from Numbers Export / Printing Can now export PDF pages out of order Fix for PDF Export with certain adjustments PDF Export can now handle text with linestyles including complex dash patterns Inner bleed not respected when exporting to all pages PDF (Win) Fix for custom paper size not saving / loading with profile (Win) Fix for collate option not saving / loading with profile Updated Help and Translations --- 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 Move Along People, adirusf, Ken Cope and 9 others 8 4
walt.farrell Posted December 3, 2019 Posted December 3, 2019 I hope that Windows will catch up with the new Mac Template feature soon -- 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 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Staff AdamW Posted December 3, 2019 Author Staff Posted December 3, 2019 8 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I hope that Windows will catch up with the new Mac Template feature soon Yep, shouldn't be too long. walt.farrell 1
jmacdonough Posted December 8, 2019 Posted December 8, 2019 Is there any chance of getting a mail merge feature in this next release?
Staff Patrick Connor Posted December 9, 2019 Staff Posted December 9, 2019 @jmacdonough Welcome to the serif affinity forums Serif do not tend to announce features before they are (nearly) ready to appear in beta, sorry. 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
akula7 Posted December 9, 2019 Posted December 9, 2019 What about PDF import? The problem with native import not solved again? Why do the developers understand that Publisher is not suitable for professional use without this feature? Any external ad that appears in flyers / brochures / booklets / magazines becomes a problem. None of the layouters will deal with the installation of the countless fonts. Too bad, it's a great program, unfortunately currently only for hobby area. StainX and benwiggy 2
loyukfai Posted December 11, 2019 Posted December 11, 2019 Can you fix the long-standing bug of Asian line breaking? Thanks in advance. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/102089-asian-punctuation-line-breaking-problem/
Staff Jon P Posted December 11, 2019 Staff Posted December 11, 2019 I've given that issue a nudge for you @loyukfai loyukfai 1 Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com
loyukfai Posted December 11, 2019 Posted December 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Jon P said: I've given that issue a nudge for you @loyukfai Thanks a lot. Hope to see it resolved soon. The bug has been bugging us Asian users for a long time... : ) Cheers.
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