Staff AdamW Posted June 17, 2020 Staff Share Posted June 17, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not Available --- Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.8.4.663 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 1.8.3 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. --- Improvements and Fixes General Fixed recent regression when saving Linked Image placeholders which was causing large document files Recoloured K-only images with transparency lose their transparency (Win) Can now import .afassets file via drag drop Text Avoid generating infinite filler text when leading is zero Further improvements for ideographic line breaks, mainly for quote-marks Allow OpenType kerning between glyphs with different settings (if they are the same font and size) Fixed 'Indent To Here' not working if lines are broken by drop cap or wrap shape Fixes for line-breaker around Fixed Spaces Import / Export IDML Import - Text frame corners are now scaled correctly IDML Import - Fixed instances where text wrap path could fail to import, or be scaled incorrectly IDML Import - Generic OpenType features not being imported from IDML file IDML Import - Effects settings not scaled correctly on master page items IDML Import - En-Space in numbered list imported as a 0 IDML Import - Elements could be positioned incorrectly in some instances IDML Import - Question mark in file path breaks link during the import IDML Import - Initial Words not scaling correctly IDML Import - Placed EPS files are slightly clipped PDF Import - Better handling of restricted files PDF Export - Fixed issues exporting to PDF/X-4 with content with embedded profiles PDF Export - Export could fail for glyph ids that happen to match surrogate pair values Index Index Find - match words with following punctuation Partial loss of parent topics when adding pages from file Further fixes, made since the release of 1.8.3, are listed in earlier 1.8.4 betas --- 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 000, Seneca, Matthias and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 3 hours ago, AdamW said: Recoloured K-only images with transparency lose their transparency Perfect, thank you! macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 3 hours ago, AdamW said: Import / Export Just tested Publisher to open a particular IDML file created in inDesign. Earlier Publisher betas would crash on opening this particular IDML file. This time Publisher opened it without any problems. I also measured, however imperfectly, the time taken to open this file by both Publisher and inDesign. Publisher opened that file in 5 seconds whereas inDesign opened it in 53 seconds. So the improvements are really great. Thank you. 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...
Wosven Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Seneca said: Publisher opened that file in 5 seconds whereas inDesign opened it in 53 seconds. Don't forget that there's a lot more options in ID, regarding foreign languages, for example, and that's probably why APub is faster since there are less prameters to read and apply to the document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Wosven said: Don't forget that there's a lot more options in ID, regarding foreign languages, for example, and that's probably why APub is faster since there are less prameters to read and apply to the document. Undoubtedly that's very true, and I took that into account, but even then the difference in speed is striking. KipV 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...
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