Staff AdamW Posted March 26, 2020 Staff Share Posted March 26, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Available --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.3.627 is now available as a download from the link above. If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry. This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.2 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. --- General Fix for AutoSave Fixed issues with live filters making layers disappear Fix for embedded documents not rendering at specific zoom levels Fix for crash pulling out groups under an image frame Boolean Operation fixes Fixed possible crash saving documents containing embedded documents if there was a colourspace mismatch Via Layer Panel, linked documents were being opened as embedded and edits were not being committed to the linked file Shift-Invert selection behaviour with the Move Tool was broken Resource Manager 'Collect' could collect multiple copies of the same placed image (Mac) In the New Document dialog, 'Show in Finder' wasn't working for top level folder (Win) Font Manager could be launched with Resource Manager (Win) Fixed crash cycling through justification options in a table (Win) Floating (undocked) panels were collapsing too small and clipping content Page Management Fixes for page operations that required spreads to be split Page objects could be incorrectly rescaled when master page was resized Text Filler text is now copied to clipboard as the expanded text rather than as '<FillerText>' Unpinning a node can scale it incorrectly Fixed crash copying mixture of filler text and regular TextTool Text > Upper Case could crash if the selected text was already Upper Case Copy-paste Arabic text from docx comes as Chinese in Publisher (Win) Some lines weren't correctly indented when using right align and right indent Import Empty (0K) files could crash the import process Export PDF Export was not honouring gradient map's colour space PDF Export images downsampling to the wrong DPI under certain circumstances PDF Export was failing with placed documents in LAB colourspace PDF Export of placed images makes more effort to preserve their colour space PDF Export fix for export of objects with empty clipping paths --- 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 eartner, A_B_C, 000 and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 1 hour ago, AdamW said: (Mac) In the New Document dialog, 'Show in Finder' wasn't working for top level folder Thank You 😀 Patrick Connor and AdamW 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianB Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Thank you, I've seen some of these issues with incorrect scaling and had at least one hard crash, so I'll try this beta! Patrick Connor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Wow! I don't know if it is my imagination or what, but this beta seems to launch much faster & is generally more responsive on my old iMac than the current retail version. Yay! 😄 Patrick Connor 1 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...
Seneca Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 49 minutes ago, R C-R said: I don't know if it is my imagination or what, but this beta seems to launch much faster & is generally more responsive on my old iMac than the current retail version. This is due to the boost library coming to its own. 😀 Patrick Connor 1 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.6.4. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyWalk Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Thank you! Patrick Connor 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...
vonBusing Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Any particular reason why Photo Beta updates are offered through auto-update (much smaller download size) while Designer and Publisher beta updates never are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted March 27, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted March 27, 2020 I usually delay enabling auto-update for around 24 hours after the initial download is announced just in case there are any issues that appear to be affecting a lot of customers. Auto-update for this build is enabled now. vonBusing and GDPR-415734 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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