galilio Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Recently I upgraded my MacBookPro with Retina 2014 to EI Caption Beta5. Sadly I find Affinity Designer can't open or create file. I have tried reset Preferences. But the worse is the Preference Dialog keep open and can't be closed even I restart my computer. Can someone help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bravery Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 High risk manoeuvre to run a Beta version OS on a mission critical Mac! You can expect things to break… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coranda Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I believe Serif are aware of this problem and are working on it. Paul Bravery 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bravery Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hi galilio, Hopefully you have a Time Machine backup & can restore your Mac to Yosemite. That is the best solution in the mean time. Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 30, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 30, 2015 Take a look at this thread... hopefully we'll get the updated beta out today and then you should be able to use the products again :) Paul Bravery 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bravery Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hi galilio, I've just installed & updated El Capitan to the latest version (15A225f), on an external hard drive for testing Affinity. What version of El Capitan Beta are you using? The version I have seems to behave itself regarding creating new & opening existing files in Affinity Designer. Screen shots below: If you need to update the Beta, maybe the problem will go away? Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coranda Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 I could be completely wrong but something in the back of my mind makes me think that there are public betas and developer betas. Galilo mentions beta 5 but I think the public betas are only up to version 3. Perhaps he has a developer beta that is later in the development process than the current public beta. But, as I said, I could have this completely wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 30, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 30, 2015 Yes, it's Developer Beta 5 - build 15A235d that introduced the problem. It will be resolved as soon as we can verify a few more fixes have had no adverse effects and build the beta. Hopefully this will be today :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forquare Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Purely informational: Public Beta 3 (15A234d) has the same issue :) WesleydeSouza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bravery Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hi forquare, Thanks for the heads up, I haven't received that update yet! Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galilio Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 Thanks all, I have developer beta 5 15A235d How can I update affinity to the beta? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coranda Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 The AP beta hasn't been released yet be they are saying it is not far off. Keep an eye on this forum for it's release. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/19-affinity-photo-beta/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galilio Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 The AP beta hasn't been released yet be they are saying it is not far off. Keep an eye on this forum for it's release. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/19-affinity-photo-beta/ This is affinity photo, what about designer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 31, 2015 Staff Share Posted July 31, 2015 Hi galilio The Designer Beta (with El Capitan fix) hasn't been released yet. It will be posted here as soon as it's ready. Paul Bravery 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galilio Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 Thanks MEB! Paul Bravery 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bravery Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Hi all, I had an interesting conversation with an Apple Certified IT guy who administers our Macs. He said that Apple will deliberately alter things in a Beta Update just to see how much gets broken & then fix the breakage in the next update! Can this be confirmed here? Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bravery Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Great work on the Photo (Beta) fix, guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 1, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 1, 2015 Just an update to say that both Affinity Photo and Designer latest betas are already available (with El Capitan fix). You can get them from the respective Beta sections (pinned at the top). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatyana Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Hello everyone! who can help me with the export Affinity designer in EPS. The fact is that when you open a file in Adobe Illustrator ENS, it turns out an awful export EFFECTS shadows blur rasterized and squares, if the settings do not put export rasterized effects, when opening a file no effects. And when exporting to SVG generally stagnant fill color instead of red turns crimson and is a distortion of the gradient. Who can help me? thank you thank you thank you! Tatyana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 1, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 1, 2015 Hi Tatyana Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Affinity doesn't support transparency when exporting to EPS. EPS doesn't support transparency. The FX effects (the shadow in your example) will be rasterised or will not be exported if you have Rasterise unsupported effects unchecked in the Export dialog. Currently there's no way around this other than exporting in other format. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 The fact is that when you open a file in Adobe Illustrator ENS, it turns out an awful export EFFECTS shadows blur rasterized and squares, if the settings do not put export rasterized effects, when opening a file no effects. EPS does not support transparency, so we have to rasterise, but it should look better than that. Could you attach the Affinity file so we can take a look at it? SVG does support some transparency, and again it's hard to tell what the problem is without the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatyana Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 EPS does not support transparency, so we have to rasterise, but it should look better than that. Could you attach the Affinity file so we can take a look at it? SVG does support some transparency, and again it's hard to tell what the problem is without the file. Well, I attach a file to the Affinity Designer I hope for your help Thank You !!! drop.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatyana Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Hi Tatyana Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Affinity doesn't support transparency when exporting to EPS. EPS doesn't support transparency. The FX effects (the shadow in your example) will be rasterised or will not be exported if you have Rasterise unsupported effects unchecked in the Export dialog. Currently there's no way around this other than exporting in other format. Hi MEB! Thank you very much for your reply! I hope the developers will make the gap with the export, and you'll have to do the work twice, to draw in affinity and effects in Illustrator and CorelDraw for Windows OC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Well, I attach a file to the Affinity Designer Thanks. As MEB says, the rasterisation is caused by the shadow effect rather than transparency. The reason it looks wrong is that the gradient behind it is being output wrong, and the rasterisation matches how it should be rather than how it is. We've added it to our list of things to fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forquare Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Another informational update, now running Public Beta 4 (15A243d) and Affinity Designer *stable* and things seem somewhat better. The issue remains, but CPU doesn’t ramp up and memory usage doesn’t spiral out of control as much. Designer isn’t a critical app for me—in fact I’ve not had a chance to use it yet—as I do little to nothing with graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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