Staff MattP Posted August 7, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 7, 2015 Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes Status: Beta Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo 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. We are considering releasing an update to the Mac App Store in order to resolve the most commonly found issues and also to address compatibility problems with OS X El Capitan Beta, so the list of changes this week is small while we ensure product stability at this point. - Improved zoom-dragging in the Zoom Tool and when Command+Space is held - Fix for Hand Tool not working in the Develop Persona - Fix for closing a window while in full screen mode not causing the application to exit full screen mode - Fix for intermittent issues encountered when saving Undo history with the document - Miscellaneous translation improvements A_B_C, Auldlad, Paul Bravery and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarøntyree Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 "A purchased copy of Affinity Designer must be installed to use this beta." <_< wwinter86 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andrew Tang Posted August 7, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 7, 2015 Sorry about that. A little bit of a hiccup there but hopefully it should be fine now. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billtils Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Yep - good now Retina iMac (4K display, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM) OS X 10.11.6 Capture One 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarøntyree Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billtils Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 (How) can we access posts in previous Customer Beta threads? Thanks Retina iMac (4K display, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM) OS X 10.11.6 Capture One 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aitte Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 You know what I find funny? A 185MB .dmg becomes a 640MB application. That's some damn magical compression. I noticed that the Contents/Frameworks folder is responsible for over 400MB of Affinity Photo's size, and that liblibpersona is the main offender (308MB). Makes me wonder: Would it be possible for you to turn this into a 185MB application by compressing the installation and making it decompress itself on-load? That would speed up load-times significantly on mechanical (non-SSD) hard drives, which usually have a read speed of ~80MB/second (so reading 640MB=8 seconds). You could cut several seconds of load time if it loaded compressed data from disk, did a rapid decompression in memory and sailed on happily ever after from there. Having to only load 185MB=2.3 seconds. May not be possible to compress dylibs though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted August 8, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted August 8, 2015 It only loads the parts of the library it uses at the time it uses them, so the file size of the libraries is misleading :) anon1 and aitte 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eripoll Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Thank you for this beta. However, downloading it turned out to be quite hectic this morning. Numerous connection drops, URL not found errors, etc... Could something be wrong with the AWS servers? Just thought I'd let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totoff Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Will the next release bring back the rotation tool in develop persona? The software is unusable without this - and could also enjoy several improvements in raw file handling too (see several posts in the forum here). Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas14 Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Today is v 1.3.5 published:. which is a lens correction www.donath-photographie.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aitte Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Thanks for the alert. I've been waiting for 1.3.5 in the app store and last checked for it yesterday. Here is the announcement in english (see attachment). 1.3.5 includes all beta improvements (including this beta) PLUS some things that were fixed after this beta. So it's currently the most advanced version available... until the next beta. ;) Here is an example of a bug in this beta that is fixed in 1.3.5 MAS: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/12271-ap-beta-13426925-crashes-every-time-from-compound-paths/?p=53125 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas14 Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 your problem is solved, but what are Lens Filter?? www.donath-photographie.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aitte Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 @Jonas14: It says "New Lens Filter adjustment" so I checked the adjustment layers, and yep it's there... Lens Filter... Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Lens Filter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas14 Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 thanks for this info! www.donath-photographie.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 I am getting the error of I need to have a purchased copy of AP, I do. What is going on. It used to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 You may have updated the AppStore versions to 1.3.5 today and these versions are now ahead of the betas and the betas won't recognise then any longer so you have to use the updated MAS (Mac App Store) version. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mquinnv Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 well, unfortunately 1.3.5 isn't working well in El Cap. Crashes every time opening a png. the previous beta was working great, and apparently there's no way to get back to that version now. any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas14 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 We are sorry, but in my AP 1.3.5 works with El Capitan (10.11.- Beta five) and .png. What does not work anymore, is the registration in the forum under El Capitan, www.donath-photographie.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 27, 2015 Staff Share Posted August 27, 2015 Hi mquinnv, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Is it crashing with a specific PNG file or with any PNG file you try to open? If it's with a specific PNG can you post it here (or send me a link to it trough a PM as you prefer) ) so i can check it out? All files will be deleted after being inspected. Thanks A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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