Staff MattP Posted July 22, 2020 Staff Share Posted July 22, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not available PLEASE NOTE: This build is identical to 1.8.4.4 except it should have operational toolbar buttons in macOS Big Sur. If you are not using Big Sur, you do not need to update (but there is no harm in doing so) Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Affinity Designer Beta 1.8.4.5 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 1.8.4.4 - Fix for toolbar buttons not working properly in macOS Big Sur. Changes Since 1.8.4.3 - Fix for undesirable shapes being created when dragging the start/end nodes of a shape on top of each other to close the shape. (hi @abn5x!!!) - macOS Big Sur operation and visual style improvements. - Improved margin and bleed presets for documents. 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. - 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. - 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). - 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 A_B_C, predick, RNKLN and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNKLN Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Just out of curiosity, is it possible to show what the Big Sur visual style improvements actually mean? Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.2) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.4 versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted July 22, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted July 22, 2020 1 hour ago, RNKLN said: Just out of curiosity, is it possible to show what the Big Sur visual style improvements actually mean? The toolbar is the appropriate size to better fit in with Big Sur and the keyline that separates the toolbar and context toolbar has been removed to match other Big Sur apps. RNKLN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 25 minutes ago, MattP said: other Bug Sur apps Don’t tell us you’ve already identified major problems with the new OS!! Mithferion, A_B_C, RNKLN and 2 others 2 3 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...
Staff MattP Posted July 22, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted July 22, 2020 10 minutes ago, Alfred said: Don’t tell us you’ve already identified major problems with the new OS!! No, I think all we've identified there is that my autocorrect tried to stab me in the back Busenitz, JGD, ronnyb and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblakeharris Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I've only encountered the toolbar issue on Big Sur. Works wonderfully now. Thanks for the timely update, you guys never fail to impress me! MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralf Stockmann Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 (edited) Running the latest Big Sur Developer Beta (20A5323I) - looking good so far, except I can't open any Files from 1.8.3 Catalina... ...nevermind. After a reboot, things went back to normal. Edited July 28, 2020 by Ralf Stockmann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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