henryg Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 This beta looks to have been "cooking" for a long time. Is there any liklihood of a release version in the near/ish future? The stated file incompatibility is a major issue. Chris B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 (edited) Serif generally won't say when the release will occur. I will mentiont that they are still implementing new functions (e.g., the New file dialog is quite recent on Windows, and support for Photoshop Smart Objects was just made available), as well as fixes for problems. And they just released the first beta for Photo on iPad (none yet for Designer on iPad). So I would expect it's still going to be awhile (1-2 months?), but that's just a guess. And sometimes they have surprised me Edited February 19, 2020 by walt.farrell Discovered that the PSD smart object support is also in Windows. buschbrand, Chris B and Rick G 2 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...
Staff Chris B Posted February 18, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 18, 2020 🤐 How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 @Chris B This emoji is way too small. Is this saliva dropping from your mouth? Move Along People and Chris B 2 ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Joachim_L said: @Chris B This emoji is way too small. Is this saliva dropping from your mouth? It's a zipped mouth. 1 hour ago, henryg said: This beta looks to have been "cooking" for a long time. Is there any liklihood of a release version in the near/ish future? The stated file incompatibility is a major issue. We don't comment on release dates. If we suggested a date and missed it, people would be on the forums and social media complaining to us, so it's just easier to not do it! jc4d, IPv6, emmrecs01 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPv6 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 33 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said: It's a zipped mouth. We don't comment on release dates. If we suggested a date and missed it, people would be on the forums and social media complaining to us, so it's just easier to not do it! no problem we will wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Death Knight Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Personally I am more interested in news about features and bug fixes in individual patches rather than an official release date. Historically the Betas have been fairly stable on my end, so I've been using them over the official release more often than not. : ) IPv6 and PaulAffinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted February 19, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 19, 2020 17 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Smart Objects, which has not gotten to Windows yet You can enable it from Preferences > General > Import PSD smart objects where possible. It's off by default for some reason. I'll find out why! Chris J 1 How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 3 hours ago, Chris B said: You can enable it from Preferences > General > Import PSD smart objects where possible. It's off by default for some reason. I'll find out why! Yes, I just discovered that it's present. I missed that in the last beta announcement. (And yes, it's off by default, I believe. Possibly for consistency?) -- 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...
walt.farrell Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 4 hours ago, Chris B said: You can enable it from Preferences > General > Import PSD smart objects where possible. It's off by default for some reason. I'll find out why! However, as noted elsewhere, it seems not to work on Windows even when enabled, and it was not announced as a Windows enhancement yet: -- 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...
Staff Chris B Posted February 19, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 19, 2020 24 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: However, as noted elsewhere, it seems not to work on Windows even when enabled, and it was not announced as a Windows enhancement yet: I noticed just after posting my reply 😓 The UI was added before the functionality. Not quite sure why that happened... How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henryg Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 23 hours ago, Mark Ingram said: We don't comment on release dates. If we suggested a date and missed it, people would be on the forums and social media complaining to us, so it's just easier to not do it! Fair enough. I think I'll await the official release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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