Staff AdamW Posted October 13, 2020 Staff Share Posted October 13, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Updates and Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Windows Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not available Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.0.796 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 significant update from the 1.8 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 or future versions of Affinity Publisher. --- Data Merge - Use the Data Merge Manager (Document > Data Merge Manager) to create a new datasource based on a Text / CSV, JSON or Excel file - Insert Fields from the datasource into text objects via the Fields Panel - Fields that represent image resource paths can be applied to Picture Frames - Optionally, use the DataMerge Node Tool in your source document to create N-up tiled source records - Use 'Generate' from the Data Merge Manager to create a new document based on your source document and datasource Package - Use 'Save As Package' and target an empty folder to create a packaged copy of your document and collect used fonts and linked images into subfolders - The package folder can be moved in its entirety to another location or to another device - On re-opening the package, links to images will be resolved and fonts can optionally be temporarily installed - It is important to adhere to copyright and licensing restrictions if redistributing images or fonts Studio Presets - Save and load custom Studio Workspaces Other Fixes and Improvements Document Setup Custom Margin colour not sticking General Alt Gr+Tab breaks shortcuts Fixed possible hang when font combo contains fonts we can't render Import PDF import was getting tiling patterns wrong Fixed crash the could occur opening PDFs containing objects with indexed colour spaces SVG Importer stability improvement IDML Import - Column rules IDML Import - Increased use of IDML document defaults to inform the import process improving a number of cases Text Hyphens not being displayed with certain font weights Add Pages From File Added option to 'Add Pages at end of document' Added option to 'Add Before / After / Replacing Section' Picture Frames Add Picture Frame property 'Clear Picture Frame Background on Populate' Converting a Picture Frame to Curves loses properties TOC Fix duplicate entries in TOC when heading paragraph spans frames Preflight Don't preflight check for missing fonts inside pass-through PDFs --- To be notified about all future Windows 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 DegasBrush, Joachim_L, VolkerMB and 20 others 13 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Wow! Data Merge! You guys are amazing! Thanks! Wosven 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 1 hour ago, AdamW said: if redistributing images or fonts or texts Patrick Connor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrpastor Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Wow I am excited to try it . Iwill play as soos as I get home from work. Thanks a lot guys. -pp- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Quail Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 This is really great! Thanks guys! Asus ROG Strix G17 Notebook: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 3.80 GHz with Radeon Vega Graphics | 32GB DDR4 3200mHz RAM Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Gfx | 2x 2TB SSD NVMe PCIe M.2 3x4 | Windows 11 Version 22H2 Build 22623.870 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johannesz Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Can you edit a saved package? I tried editing the .afpackage, it will show [Modified] but "Save" is greyed-out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 4 minutes ago, johannesz said: Can you edit a saved package? I tried editing the .afpackage, it will show [Modified] but "Save" is greyed-out. My guess is that you have to save the package under a new name and then you can start to edit, essentially creating a new version of the document. To me this makes sense because a package is for documentation and archiving and not for editing (but I may be wrong 🙂 ) d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 17 minutes ago, johannesz said: Can you edit a saved package? On further investigation: you can edit packages but you have to save it as a package under a new name (= version). d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykee Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Great thanks for packages, and Studio Workspaces. I will use these features in future! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burny Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 " Package " works great ! Thanks ! \m/ Windows 10 21H2 - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz - 16,0 Go - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rondem Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Data Merge 😍 OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 ProVersion 10.0.17134 Build 17134System Type x64-based PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Data Merge in this beta is perfect timing. I have to generate 2.265 letters. Working good so far. Downsides noticed: APu is very laggy (perhaps my PC), Page Range is not working and having no clue to work with picture frames. The last two things are already reported. Thx for your hard and brilliant work! Burny, mykee, Frozen Death Knight and 1 other 4 ------ 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...
Hilltop Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Wow, this is a big update: Data Merge, Package, AND Studio Presets! Thanks so much, team! Takudzwa Nyoni 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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