Staff AdamW Posted February 13, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 13, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Windows Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Available --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that a new Customer Beta of Affinity Publisher (1.8.0.556) 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. --- Known issues We are aware that the text ruler cannot be 'turned off' in this build. This will be resolved in the next update. --- Fixes and Updates Misc 'New Document' dialog improvements Move Keyboard Shortcut Preferences for Studio Panels from 'Misc' to 'View' menu Fix for fitting in Picture Frames with additional non-picture content Focal point logic now works for Select and Node tools Unit entry expression parser improvements Margins weren't scaled on document resize Transform Panel now updates with document DPI change (Mac) Fix for Layer Effects showing wrong blend mode (Win) Changing Gamma UI preference could incorrectly cause Tools Toolbar to enable Text Further optimisations to improve speed of text entry in longer documents Paragraph Decorations line style was not scaling with document correctly Paragraph Decorations transparency pop-up had no gradient options Spelling options pre-populated with the last result after "learn" Find and Replace Added RegEx option ‘Dot matches Paragraph Break’, off by default. - This may affect the behaviour of existing RegEx if the option is left switched off Added RegEx option ‘Single Line Mode’, off by default TOC Fix for the list number part of TOC entries that have numbered headings Preflight Missing fonts entry wasn't jumping to Font Manager Import Fixes for IDML lists import Fixes for IDML import with tables overlapping Fix for PDF import of 'Maestro' font (and similar) Specific EPS file was crashing on open Export PDF / SVG Export Presets reorganised 'Downsample Above' option was not sticking 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 Uncle Mez, mykee, MikeW and 8 others 4 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Mez Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Hello guys ! i'm happy to see the improvements you brought to the suite and precisely to Publisher which is now having more beta release and is growing fast. Congrats for the new document creation dialog it is of good and refreshing sensation. I'll run it and tell if something is bad or not ! PS: broke my MacBook and now running on windows version Patrick Connor 1 Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 On 2/13/2020 at 9:30 AM, AdamW said: 'New Document' dialog improvements Hi, Adam. Why "Recents" and "Open" are no longer in the New Document dialog? Best regards! AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 9 minutes ago, Mithferion said: Why "Recents" and "Open" are no longer in the New Document dialog? Because neither is an appropriate option when creating a new file? If you want one of them, Why not choose File > Open or Open Recent instead of File > New? -- 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 17.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 The “Recents” option showed thumbnails of the Files, which is handy. Best regards! walt.farrell 1 AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tourmaline Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Installed without problems. Thanks for the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe367 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Installation went without any Problems and the App works fast and stable. Thank you 😊 Have a nice day. Ich wünsche einen schönen Tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Thanks for the new "New" dialog. Now it is like it has to be. ☺️ 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...
Mike Turpin Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 I have recently purchased the stable version of Affinity Publisher and overall am very impressed. However I would really like to merge Affinity Publisher files. I want to share the compilation of separate articles and then bring them together into one publication ready for converting to a pdf for web distribution. I have been advised that the 1.8 beta will do this but when I tried using 'Place' for the second file it only seems to bring in one page (the last?). Am I doing something wrong or is this something to sort? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted February 18, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 18, 2020 @Mike Turpin you want to be using Document > Add Pages from File Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifatboy Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Please add middle East language typing support, it has in Photoshop, We want to write Unicode Bangla Language in Affinity Publisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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