Staff AdamW Posted February 5, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 5, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not Available --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.549) 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. --- Fixes and Updates New Document Dialog (Win) Implemented new New Document / Template dialog (Mac) Miscellaneous fixes General Layers thumbnails now update when a global colour is changed Convert to text frame now preserves corners Fixed creation of unnecessary duplicates in Resource Manager / Collect... Added 'Show in Explorer / Finder' to Resource Manager Document Grid drawn incorrectly when switching between Master and Regular View Fixed crash adding assets from afpub file Assets imported via an afasset file aren't made visible if no categories currently exist Can now search for missing fonts via Find and Replace Fixes for Baseline Grid propagation from Master Pages Preflight Preflight check for missing glyphs Text Fixed crash in text composition. Recent regression Fixed for Even / Odd Page Breaks Fixes for Pinning Page UI Column Rules now honour Text Wrap Fixed Text Wrapping issues that could occur with large negative borders Wrap settings saved in an objects style weren't correctly applied Added more 'special characters' to the Bullets and Numbering character pick lists Fixed Text Styles Panel preview for styles with a large 'Space Above' 'Word Joiner' and 'Zero Width Non-breaking Space' can now be entered with ToggleUnicode, and have their own "Show Special" representation. Pasting text with Move Tool active now appends content to non-filler text rather than replacing Warning now given when attempting to spell check text with no suitable dictionary available Improved Title Exceptions granularity to never change certain words Specific font incorrectly keeps italics activated (Win) Drop Scale for Descenders option was missing (Win) Previews on Typography Panel corrupted Tables Deleting row(s) in table caused alignment settings to reset Table format > Frame stroke alignment is not remembered when changing the width TOC Pinned Frames now use the location of their pin to influence the order of TOC entries (Win) TOC Panel was missing separator field Index Fix occasional crash opening Index Panel Import PDF Import: PDF Import now supports JBIG2 compression. DOCX Import: DOCX Import now supports linked images IDML Import: Shift+Tab (Right Indent Tab) not imported IDML Import: Gutter values could be incorrect Export / Print PDF Export: Images in Embedded Documents weren't downsampling to correct DPI leading to unnecessarily high-res bitmaps. JPEG Export: Include bleed was missing Updated Help and Translations --- 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 woefi, Murfee, A_B_C and 5 others 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 40 minutes ago, AdamW said: Can now search for missing fonts via Find and Replace That one will make a lot of people much happier. Patrick Connor, markw, Tatyana and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 The New Document dialogue is brilliant. I like having everything on display (no tabs) and the Presets will be very useful. The interface is now really good. Thanks. Patrick Connor, 000 and NilsFinken 3 Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 Thanks for fixing Shift + Tab IDML import. Works fine. 😀 Patrick Connor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 18 hours ago, AdamW said: Added 'Show in Explorer / Finder' to Resource Manager Thank you 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyWalk Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Thank you! The Resource Manager is getting better and better. Preflight – awesome. NilsFinken and Jon P 1 1 iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Just curious but when did Preferences > Auto-Correct acquire a pre-populated list of misspellings & replacements, & what is the source of that list? It seems to consist largely of a number of random simple misspellings like "make" spelled as "amke" & "a lot" spelled as"alot." Preferences > Abbreviations also is now pre-populated with a short list of abbreviations. Most of the included ones seem common enough to be included ... except for "S.P.Q.R." (Senatus Populusque Romanus, “The Senate and People of Rome”). Aside from a few scholarly works, there seems to be very few instances of it in U.S. literature (when it does appear it is usually written as "SPQR" without the periods), plus a quick Google search turned up this. 😮 All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 36 minutes ago, R C-R said: Just curious but when did Preferences > Auto-Correct acquire a pre-populated list of misspellings & replacements, Windows has had that prepopulated list since at least 1.7.3, probably earlier. R C-R 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Windows has had that prepopulated list since at least 1.7.3, probably earlier. I just rechecked 1.7.3 for Macs & while "English" (which for me means U.S. English) is unpopulated, "English (United Kingdom)" is pre-populated. The U.K. list in 1.7.3 appears to be identical to the U.S. one in 1.8.0.549, so I guess it was just copied over as part of the 'updated' translations. Also, FWIW since I use the macOS System Preferences > Keyboard > Text 'replace with' feature to automatically replace a few words I often mistype, I wondered which would take precedence if I added a different auto-correct entry in APU vs. what I already have in System Preferences. In case anyone is wondering, System Preferences overrides the APU entry. All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angied Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Is there a way to test the Beta 1.8 for free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted February 12, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 12, 2020 @angied Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums 13 hours ago, angied said: Is there a way to test the Beta 1.8 for free? No the beta is for customers only, sorry. Once 1.8.0 is released you should be able to redownload the trials (in your account) and install 1.8 and try them again (even if you have tried 1.7.3) 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...
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