Staff MattP Posted July 24, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 24, 2015 Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes Status: Beta Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download: Here To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. - Fix for exporting 'selected objects' causing a crash if the width or height is changed - Fix for vector brush textures appearing incorrectly stretched/acting strangely - Fix for marquee selection crashing in Pixel Persona when in intersect mode - WEBP import support (export coming soon!) - Improved tool UI drawing speed by upto 5000% in OS X 10.8 and above (note that this is just tool UI - not everything!). - Fixed GIF export (bad permissions were set on the resulting file). - Removed “Edit in Photo” toolbar button. - Attempt to recover when the default system fonts are not available. - Minor translation UI improvements. - Prevent crashes when users mistakenly try to open folders instead of files. - Minor performance improvements in performance when editing 16bit RGB files. - Numerous vector export / import improvements. - Fixed issue which caused path text to be inaccurately positioned. - Fixed issue with Edit -> Fill not applying colour noise. - Fixed sporadic issued with Open -> Recent and other MRU things. - Attempt to resolve file association issues, so Photo files open with Photo and Designer files with Designer! - Fixed issue where feathering a selection by a large radius would produce weird results. ronnyb, AdrianKLægreid, A_B_C and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hi Matt, many thanks for the new beta … :) One little question … how is that Attempt to resolve file association issues, so Photo files open with Photo and Designer files with Designer! supposed to work? What do we have to do to associate the files correctly? I used the Info panel for my files to "change all" to the correct beta versions respectively, but this still affects .afdesign and .afphoto files … did I do something wrong? :unsure: Best, Alex :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andrew Tang Posted July 24, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hi Matt, many thanks for the new beta … :) One little question … how is that Attempt to resolve file association issues, so Photo files open with Photo and Designer files with Designer! supposed to work? What do we have to do to associate the files correctly? I used the Info panel for my files to "change all" to the correct beta versions respectively, but this still affects .afdesign and .afphoto files … did I do something wrong? :unsure: Best, Alex :) You don't need to do anything and it should resolve itself at some point. It's actually a complicated issue especially if you have multiple application using those file extension. Because the current mac app store versions do the wrong thing - they might override the fixes in the beta version so you might not find the issue 'fixed' until we release the mac app store version with the fixes. You can't remove the mac app store version of the app because then your betas don't work. The best way to see this working now would probably be as follow: - Remove all existing betas from the system completely (it must be emptied from the trash can) - Install the Photo beta (for the afphoto files). - Install the Designer beta (for the afdesign files). - Restart - Run the Photo beta once. - Run the Designer beta once. - Restart Hopefully the services would have recalibrate to use the betas. For drastic measures, you can restart your launch services, and remake the quicklook previews. However, this might have weird side effect and not recommended. The complication also comes if you have manually reassigned your files to use an associated application. Since the individual file will now be linked - nothing external can change it. Hopefully, by removing the existing beta currently on your computer might solve this. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Thanks, Andy, for this long and detailed reply … I am going to test this later this afternoon and report back … After all, it’s more an inconvenience than a problem. We can always use the right + click to open method … :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Larsen Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I know it's a well know issue and you've promised to look at it but the bug has been there since day one: Any timeline on when expand stroke will work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 24, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted July 24, 2015 We can't put timelines on anything - it just ends up with rush-jobs to try to fix something at any cost and that isn't what we want and it's not in the best interests of our customers - it's at the top of my list along with boolean geometry (which I'm currently typing at the moment). It's something that needs to work properly and I'm aware of that and will get it working properly as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hey Andy I tried this twice but it keeps confusing AF and AD files... Oh well, back to right-clicking "Open with…" You don't need to do anything and it should resolve itself at some point. It's actually a complicated issue especially if you have multiple application using those file extension. Because the current mac app store versions do the wrong thing - they might override the fixes in the beta version so you might not find the issue 'fixed' until we release the mac app store version with the fixes. You can't remove the mac app store version of the app because then your betas don't work. The best way to see this working now would probably be as follow: - Remove all existing betas from the system completely (it must be emptied from the trash can) - Install the Photo beta (for the afphoto files). - Install the Designer beta (for the afdesign files). - Restart - Run the Photo beta once. - Run the Designer beta once. - Restart Hopefully the services would have recalibrate to use the betas. For drastic measures, you can restart your launch services, and remake the quicklook previews. However, this might have weird side effect and not recommended. The complication also comes if you have manually reassigned your files to use an associated application. Since the individual file will now be linked - nothing external can change it. Hopefully, by removing the existing beta currently on your computer might solve this. Andy 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 So where’s the cool stuff? :) UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hi Andy, I tried everything I could think of, followed your advice as well, but unfortunately I must affirm what Ronny said … can’t get the system to discern AD and AP files … seems we have to wait for the next app store update … But as I said, no problem. We should be happy how the two apps work together in every other respect … :) Thanks and have a nice weekend, Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 24, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted July 24, 2015 So where’s the cool stuff? :) Haha, well.. how did I know you'd ask? ;) Basically, we've decided to release a small update to the App Store to fix the majority of issues found by users of Affinity 1.3 before moving on to 1.4 - so although we're working on the new features day-to-day in our 1.4 branch, we are also maintaining the 1.3 branch and adding fixes to it so that we can give people the best experience with an update to the Mac App Store version within the next couple of weeks (hopefully). The beta has to come from the 1.3 branch as that's what we're going to push to the App Store as an update when we know that everything is working as expected :) Lojza 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andrew Tang Posted July 27, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 27, 2015 Hi Andy, I tried everything I could think of, followed your advice as well, but unfortunately I must affirm what Ronny said … can’t get the system to discern AD and AP files … seems we have to wait for the next app store update … But as I said, no problem. We should be happy how the two apps work together in every other respect … :) Thanks and have a nice weekend, Alex Hey Andy I tried this twice but it keeps confusing AF and AD files... Oh well, back to right-clicking "Open with…" The trick here is to make sure OS X doesn't associate the files with the MAS version of the app. So what you can try is to first disassociate those files by removing all copies of Designer and Photo from the system and then restart, and try 'Open with...' with those files to make sure they aren't pointing to any residual app. Bear in mind this will remove your current settings for Designer and Photo. Then install the MAS version of Designer and Photo but DO NOT start up the application. Then install the beta version of Designer and Photo. Run the beta version of Designer and Photo up once. Try 'Open with...' with the files to see if the files have associated correctly. As long as the MAS version of the application never run up, then it should be fine. The best way to see it working is if you goto 'Get Info' on a file, for the General > Kind property, it should show either 'Affinity Photo Document' or 'Affinity Designer Document' If it says 'Affinity Document' then it has associated to the incorrect application. It's all very tricky at the moment because the apps are fighting for control which makes it hard to test. :( Unfortunately, If these files are in the Affinity iCloud folder, then they will always be associated to Designer . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Hey Andy, no problem … before I loose all my settings I’d rather stick with the current ctrl+click technique … ^_^ Thanks for your explanations though … I think I can wait until the next app store update … :) Cheers, A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallreflection Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 I hoping this beta fixes a few issues I'm having. Just now I had the second instance of working on a large file for several hours, only to save and close and find that none of my work at all was saved since opening the file. :( Slightly terrifying, and seems very strange considering that originally Designer auto-saved my work every few minutes. There's no crash report or anything so I'm not sure if there's any way of investigating why the save isn't occurring. Could be a server issue on our end, so I'll be working from the desktop for awhile to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.cittadini Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Will this beta include a fix for the latest El Capitan DP5 beta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallreflection Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Hey guys, I'm noticing a bug on layer exports that I noticed in the last version and seems to be in the present beta as well. When I select a vector crop mask for an object and export the layer by itself, it exports a blank image of the mask itself. When I select the layer, it seems to be at least partially ignoring the vector crop mask, and exports with a blank area around it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/lhfet48bf0b746g/export-layer-bug.mov?dl=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I sent a PSD 2 times already where the text layers are moved all to the top left for some reason. No fix yet. :( UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Thanks Matt! The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 This seems not to work in El Capitan 15A234d - any chance it will be fixed anytime soon? Nic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgoodwin Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 They posted on Twitter acknowledging this, and that a new beta will address it. Posting in the hopes that it gets announced here so I get a notice :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 30, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 30, 2015 I believe Matt already has fixed this. The next Beta should run without issues. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgoodwin Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hey MEB, do I need to follow this post/forum, or run the beta and wait for it to self check for updates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 30, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hi, Just check back tomorrow - I was hoping we'd be able to get a build up today but I had to go home this afternoon so wasn't in the office - I'm assuming there's been a snag so we'll definitely get it out for tomorrow, sorry :( Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 30, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hi rgoodwin, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Just run the Beta. A dialog will notify you about the update with a link to the download. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al465 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Just curious, why exactly did you remove the "edit in photo" button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Just curious, why exactly did you remove the "edit in photo" button? Not sure but it wasn’t working at all for me. UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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