Affinity Publisher Customer Beta - 1.8.0.535

[AdamW]

Status: Beta
Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Available

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Hi,

We are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.535) 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.

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Fixes and Updates

General
Fix for crash on startup when specific (broken) fonts are installed
Embedded Assets imported from opened files aren't always visible initially
Fixed sporadic crash switching from the Text Flow Tool to the Move Tool
Prevented opening of multiple copies of placed linked documents
Fix for documents not auto-updating when edited from inside the application
(Mac) Fixed crash Adding Pages from File

Page Management
Master Page text  could be duplicated when migrating masters
IME panel now available in detached Master Text Frames

IDML Import
Sporadic crash opening IDML with Drop Cap paragraph styles.
Use document profile when IDML contains an image profile of 'None'
Text Variables converted to plain text when importing IDML

Text
(Mac) Fix for crashing in the Text Style Editor (hopefully!)
Improved Title Exceptions granularity to never change certain words
Fixed text drag drop for Master Page text frames
Improved adjustment of last Table Row height / Column width 

Indexes
Words containing index marks could not always be found

Preflight
Added 'Warning' state to preflight status indicator
Additional Hyperlink checks
Overflow text check sometimes wasn't reported if the page frame was overflowing but the master frame wasn't
Ignore small images for non-proportional scaling warning

Export
Fixed PSD Export of Master Page content
Linked sRGB document not printing correctly when placed in a greyscale document

Updated Help and Translations
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To be notified about all future Mac 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

[DJ!]

In trying to unzip the files, I'm getting this message:

[fde101]

1 hour ago, DJ! said:

In trying to unzip the files, I'm getting this message:

<Moderated for accuracy>

You are posting on the Publisher beta on Mac forum , but your screenshot is from Windows. Are you sure you downloaded the Windows beta EXE and not the Mac beta .ZIP file?

The announcement threads are an appropriate place for these posts if the software won't install - I believe you want the Publisher beta on Windows forum:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/58-publisher-beta-on-windows/

and you will need the Windows beta from the link at the top of this post,

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/105717-affinity-publisher-customer-beta-180535/ 

...not the mac beta download linked in this post you are in.

 

[Patrick Connor]

@DJ!

I have tweaked fde101's reply as I think that was the problem, with the Mac beta ZIP from this post not being the one you need