Staff MattP Posted June 25, 2020 Staff Share Posted June 25, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not available Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Affinity Designer Beta 1.8.4.3 for macOS. 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 currently available in the store 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. Many thanks! Matt Changes Since 1.8.4.2 - Fix for 'Expand Strokes' failing to consider 'velocity' as a width controller. - Fix for focus issues when tabbing between text entry fields in the Colour panel with Text objects selected. (hi @dcarvalho84 - lol!) - Fix for operation of Command+Right-Click on an object to show the tree hierarchy of the selected node. - Allow certain documents created on Windows to open correctly (if the document contained a saved reference to exporting as Windows GDI formats). - Miscellaneous text fixes and improvements Changes Since 1.8.3 - Fix for incorrect rendering of grids in OpenGL past certain zoom levels. - Fix for poor functioning of 'Force Touch' trackpads in pressure-sensitive tools. - Speculative fix for occasional lockups in Pencil Tool. - Added option in preferences to re-enable the old behaviour for deleting objects (we used to previously favour empty selections). - Added ability to show folders as icons in the layers panel. - Added option to always show folders as “small” in the layers panel. - Improved dragging behaviour in the layers panel (make it easier to drag child items around within their container without affecting parenting). - PDF import performance improvements. - Document save performance improvements. - Text performance improvements. - Assorted small bug fixes. - Help improvements. - Localisation improvements. To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this beta notification thread To be notified when this update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Affinity Designer customers, please follow this release notification thread Seneca, dcarvalho84, JGD and 10 others 8 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcarvalho84 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 I'm feeling really honoured to be mentioned in a beta feature list of fixes That was quick @MattP Thanks for fixing this Designer Team 😉 vonBusing and MattP 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn5x Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 oh I see that the issue which I mentioned you in twitter(about joining two nodes with auto-snap ignoring the node handles of the dragged node when welding them) still isn't fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted June 27, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted June 27, 2020 3 hours ago, abn5x said: oh I see that the issue which I mentioned you in twitter(about joining two nodes with auto-snap ignoring the node handles of the dragged node when welding them) still isn't fixed Do you have a link to that to jog my memory? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffinityMakesMeSad Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 3 hours ago, abn5x said: oh I see that the issue which I mentioned you in twitter(about joining two nodes with auto-snap ignoring the node handles of the dragged node when welding them) still isn't fixed I don’t believe Twitter is the best place to report bugs in... Matt’s twitter account may be his private there, away from only discussion Affinity stuff Happy amateur that playing around with the Affinity Suite - really love typograhics, photographing, colors & forms, AND, Synthesizers! Macbook Pro 16” M1 2021, iPad Pro 12.9” M1 2021, iPad Pro 10.5” A10X 2017, iMac 27” 5K/i7 late 2015… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nik78 Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Aha! There are the folder icons you added. So you just turn off group thumbnail. How is the size controlled again? Folders icons.tif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn5x Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 On 6/27/2020 at 10:35 PM, AffinityMakesMeSmile said: I don’t believe Twitter is the best place to report bugs in... Matt’s twitter account may be his private there, away from only discussion Affinity stuff He responded and said that he will look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn5x Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 On 6/27/2020 at 10:17 PM, MattP said: Do you have a link to that to jog my memory? Thanks sure! here it is: thank you for your hard work! MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nik78 Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 I think what is happening is that you have two different node types there: A smooth and corner point. If you make them both smooth the shape should stay the same. How do you do auto snap close? You drag the points together? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 23 minutes ago, nik78 said: If you make them both smooth the shape should stay the same. If you change the sharp node to a smooth node you change the shape of that end of the curve. Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nik78 Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Sounds like you would just have to the complete the shape with the pen tool and make a small adjustment on the new segment I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn5x Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 2 hours ago, nik78 said: I think what is happening is that you have two different node types there: A smooth and corner point. If you make them both smooth the shape should stay the same. How do you do auto snap close? You drag the points together? the same happens even if the two nodes are smooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nik78 Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Try turning on snap to geometry of selected curve that seems to work for me. Otherwise are you looking for something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqCYd2HVXNA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted June 29, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted June 29, 2020 Definitely something odd happening - I'll look into it, I'm just doing something on iPad for the next couple of days, then I'll get to it, thanks again for the nudge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 53 minutes ago, MattP said: I'm just doing something on iPad for the next couple of days Ooh, intriguing! Any clues, Matt? MattP 1 Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn5x Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 On 6/29/2020 at 9:53 PM, MattP said: Definitely something odd happening - I'll look into it, I'm just doing something on iPad for the next couple of days, then I'll get to it, thanks again for the nudge You're welcome thank you for your hard work! Also very interested to hear what you're working on for the iPad 👂👂 MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
systemedic Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Blend Tool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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