Staff MattP Posted September 15, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 15, 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 the first build of Affinity Designer 1.9.0 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 significantly different from the 1.8.4 version available for purchase - we strongly recommend that you do not use this beta for real work as data could be lost and the files you save are not guaranteed to open in previous / future versions of Affinity Designer. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes Since 1.9.0 - Contour tool. - Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say... - Improved performance with large documents. I will aim to improve this further over time. - Added a new “Divide” blend mode. - Allowed snapping to the bounds of the pixel selection. 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, robinp, Gokhan Eser and 21 others 13 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Thanks, a lot of users will be very happy to see this 😀 MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcarvalho84 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Can't wait to test the contour tool (will absolutely be one of my new best friends!) and the select same (hope this can let us choose at least by fill and by stroke (shape too?)) Just out of curiosity would be nice if you give us the minimum/normal bechmarks that should be expected from the software to run flawlessly. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 15, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted September 15, 2020 I've temporarily removed the benchmark too until I can introduce something more representative for typical vector purposes... It'll come back very soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herojas93 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 "Select same" for me will be the best... Please introduce select "all text objects", even if them are grouped or blocked. That will increase the workflow for me when I have to convert text in curves. Thanks, great job!!! LCamachoDesign, Bryce, robinp and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 15, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted September 15, 2020 4 minutes ago, Herojas93 said: "Select same" for me will be the best... Please introduce select "all text objects", even if them are grouped or blocked. That will increase the workflow for me when I have to convert text in curves. Thanks, great job!!! You can *nearly* do this already - I split out text objects into the main types: Art Text, Frame Text, Path Text, so you currently have to choose which type of text you'd like to select, but it does as you'd expect - traverses the whole document and selects those objects wherever they are, whether they're locked or not Do you need the 'all' text option still? CLC and JGD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herojas93 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 16 minutes ago, MattP said: You can *nearly* do this already - I split out text objects into the main types: Art Text, Frame Text, Path Text, so you currently have to choose which type of text you'd like to select, but it does as you'd expect - traverses the whole document and selects those objects wherever they are, whether they're locked or not Do you need the 'all' text option still? It would be nice for me the "all" option. I use mainly Designer to do user manuals with several pages. So when I send them to print and to avoid problems with fonts, I used the option in Illustrator "select all text objects", them convert them to curves. Just in 2 clicks I done everything. Doesn't matter the type of text or format. Also is very nice to have the selective option for text to be more accurate. MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 12 minutes ago, Herojas93 said: So when I send them to print and to avoid problems with fonts, I used the option in Illustrator "select all text objects", them convert them to curves. PDF-Export -> Export Settings -> Pulldown Embed fonts: Text as Curves should work as well. MattP 1 ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herojas93 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Oh! man... almost 4 years using Affinity and I didn't know that option...f... Thanks!!! Joachim_L.@MattP, using this option is fine for me. Anyway if you want to add "all" option, will be well received. MattP, Frozen Death Knight and Joachim_L 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 15, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted September 15, 2020 Still waiting for my build to start on the server, lol - hopefully will begin in a few minutes then I can upload later today Sorry about the delay... affinityfan, madame fleur and Murfee 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenogre Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Great release ! Another nail for the Illustrator coffin. KipV and Patrick Connor 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 15, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted September 15, 2020 Right, got this fixed, built, tested and uploaded... I've updated it to say '1.9.0.2' now just to resolve any confusion... dcarvalho84 and Filo63 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Death Knight Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Nice! Question. What's a Contour Tool? vonBusing, MattP and RNKLN 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filo63 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Wow they are working fine ... select by fill I used it a lot. Thanks Fabio MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinp Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Finally. So pleased this has come and it is part of the 1.X version series. Looking forward to trying it out MattP and B4ttleCat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Select same ----ACE------ potentially save hours - can't seem to find the contour tool? BRILLIANT WORK! MattP 1 Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, Dazmondo77 said: can't seem to find the contour tool? Just found it - looks like you have to go to: view - customise tools to enable Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 15, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted September 15, 2020 Ah! That means we must have a bug if you have maybe modified your tools toolbar from default... in theory it should’ve automatically just appeared on there, sorry.... CLC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiwienen Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 this is huge 🤩 thank you so much for select same. Please release now 😂 MattP and Boldlinedesign 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Can’t wait to try “Select same” on Windows, and give the feedback here. Best regards! MattP 1 AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Is the Contour tool actually a "Path Offset" tool? I can't find documentation about the new Contour tool in the help files. Can you post the documentation here, or as part of a new topic thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 26 minutes ago, Mark Oehlschlager said: I can't find documentation about the new Contour tool in the help files Serif doesn't often document the new features until closer to a stable release as they have a tendency to change quite a bit during the betas and too much of it would be wasted effort if done too soon. MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 11 hours ago, MattP said: Select Same / Select Object functionality This is a huge deal, I can't wait to check it out! Additional question: I see that the Photo beta has studio presets. Will this be in the 1.9 version of Designer too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyWalk Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Thanx a lot for Select Same, It's amazing! Boldlinedesign, Mark Oehlschlager and MattP 3 iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 11 hours ago, MattP said: Contour tool. The status bar when using this tool says that holding option while using it should clone the object but that doesn't seem to be happening - am I missing something? Any chance of the contour getting an independent stroke from the main object? Currently the stroke moves to the contour, which is appropriate, but would be nice to have the option of applying a stroke in two places as a result of this tool... Takudzwa Nyoni 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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