Staff AdamW Posted November 27, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Updates and Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher Windows Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Available Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.0.863 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. --- We have a new preflight check for the document colour profile being incompatible with PDF/X. Currently this is generating false positives. This will be fixed in the next update. Fixes And Improvements General Fixed Select > Deselect for Master Page items Fixed crash which could occur when undoing a color format change Fixed rounding error in scale displayed in the context toolbar scaling UI for images Now able to drop folders from Windows Explorer which contain Assets into the Assets Panel Ctrl+Right-Click displays tree of objects to select from Pages panel loses the scroll position when switching between document tabs Fixed Keyboard shortcuts > Apply to all Allow marquee selection in Pages Panel Text Text frame bounding rectangle now remains visible when typing text Fixes for vertically aligned text in conjunction with baseline grid Reverting local formatting in a TOC could cause issues Auto correct quotation marks for French Text Styles panel may truncate style names without clear indication. Fixed use of Tab Character with Initial Words Unable to add tab stop lower than the already existing highest value Line breaks coming from Paragraph Style with Bullets and Numbering is now removed in TOC Fix for the Index Panel showing double entries under certain circumstances Fixed crash which could occur when deleting a TOC Table Formats weren't rendered colour corrected in the panel Fixed Initial Words UI update issue Fixed issue with Spelling > Change UI Find and Replace Fixed issue where Replace All with an empty string could cause a crash Ensure found entry is always made visible in Find and Replace panel Find and Replace did not always advance to next result correctly Text from Master Page frames not selected correctly in Find and Replace panel Images / Frames Converting to Picture Frame could distort the frame content Can now 'Paste as Content' into Master Page Picture Frame Name converted Pixel Layers Name images created from the clipboard Import / Export When creating a new file from a template reset the fields. When exporting don't change the filename field. Fixed placement issue with artboard based afdesign files Custom date formatting on xlsx files could import incorrectly Export Pages field now clears when switching documents Improved PDF export of Type 1 fonts, which could cause failure under certain circumstances Fixed possible crash on PDF Export under failure conditions PDF Export was converting RGB bitmaps to CMYK if the original document had the bitmap's working profile Fixed crash in PDF Export which could occur if a bitmap's colour profile did not match the bitmaps colour format Fix for TGA 32bit export Data Merge Facing page data merge could lose data and assign incorrect master pages Import from Excel files could miss rows whcih started with no data in the first column --- Release Notes for 1.9.0.850 Release Notes for 1.9.0.843 Release Notes for 1.9.0.829 Release Notes for 1.9.0.822 Release Notes for 1.9.0.798 Release Notes for 1.9.0.796 Release Notes for 1.9.0.742 --- 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 Frozen Death Knight, Dave Quail, eartner and 9 others 5 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Hi Adam Thanks for the update...but! having a bit of an issue getting to boot This is a first! Just installed the update....seemed to install ok but when I click on the icon it tries to load then quits NB Restart=failed Clear previous data also (Control Click)=failed Ok tried uninstalling! Uninstall | restart | download new version then install =failed any ideas? Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2402 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 21 minutes ago, StuartRc said: Just installed the update....seemed to install ok but when I click on the icon it tries to load then quits Worked fine for me. Did it produce a crash report? -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Worked fine for me. Did it produce a crash report? Hi Walt Thanks for that...hadn't considered it!.....Just checked though...and no basically the last crash report was from July The previous beta was working fine.... I had also had a look at windows update to see if Microsoft was being a pain but nothing there either! Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2402 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 3 minutes ago, StuartRc said: and no basically the last crash report was from July Perhaps something in %AppData%\Affinity\Publisher\1.0 (Beta)\log.txt ? -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Perhaps something in %AppData%\Affinity\Publisher\1.0 (Beta)\log.txt ? Ok checking! had a look through list. It is recognising and finding graphics card but skips some colour profiles. Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2402 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Loaded the splash screen then crashed. No previous problems loadingt betas. Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted November 27, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2020 Do you have any crash reports to upload @MickRose ? Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 where do I find them? Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted November 27, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2020 %appdata%\Affinity\Publisher\1.0 (Beta)\CrashReports If you can upload what's in the reports folder there it would be helpful, thanks Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 7 files here dated today. Hope they help. 59c8cadf-a55d-4ec0-a9c1-ac01da42ba47.dmp 614628a3-4c29-47cd-b41e-428e90e1f29c.dmp 6e4f194f-b6cb-4519-9986-f6c2766fd266.dmp 03c4d7f0-04e5-4ef8-a39e-8215cc93dacc.dmp 4e407d16-c7df-4b75-b850-179f7cd497ae.dmp a3568c99-6ab4-444a-ac39-ae98a264b8cc.dmp a6741c4a-f433-46f5-9cfd-e52adc1d3655.dmp Mark Ingram, Jon P and AdamW 3 Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted November 27, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2020 @MickRose that was indeed helpful, it's related to a font that is installed on your system. We are looking into this but it may be helpful if you could zip up and upload your fonts folder to here. I'm aware it may be quite a big upload but it would be appreciated. Thanks Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry savoie Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 hello, same problem for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted November 27, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted November 27, 2020 Hi, Thanks all, I'll withdraw this build. We hope to have an update / fix later today. If you're affected and can wait great, if not the previous build is here. Mark Ingram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Jon P said: @MickRose that was indeed helpful, it's related to a font that is installed on your system. We are looking into this but it may be helpful if you could zip up and upload your fonts folder to here. I'm aware it may be quite a big upload but it would be appreciated. Thanks It will be Monday before I can upload the fonts folder. Do you still want it? Is it the Windows/fonts folder? Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted November 27, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2020 Yeah that would still be useful, thanks! It is indeed just the Windows/fonts folder Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted November 27, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted November 27, 2020 Hi, I've uploaded an update to fix this issue loading fonts on startup, the update is available from download link in the announcement at the top of the thread. Patrick Connor, StuartRc and emmrecs01 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Thank you!....installed perfectly this time! AdamW 1 Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2402 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted November 27, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted November 27, 2020 Hi StuartRc - Glad to hear it. Thanks for letting us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Just now, AdamW said: Hi StuartRc - Glad to hear it. Thanks for letting us know. No Problem...I was surprised! but hey that's what betas are for!.........and 1.9 is looking good! Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2402 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe367 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Thanks for this new Beta. Installation went without Problems and the App runs fast and stable so far. AdamW 1 Have a nice day. Ich wünsche einen schönen Tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Death Knight Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Really digging the new ctrl+R click menu for selecting things! Great change and I can't wait to see it in Designer and Photo. 🥳 I did notice that the feature was a bit unstable. Had Publisher crash repeatedly when I used it in one project where I had nothing selected in a file with an artboard (clicked outside the canvas). Might have to look into that maybe? Desktop 2020.11.27 - 21.28.19.01.mp4 One suggestion I have for when clicking outside the canvas, especially with multiple artboards, is that it shows all the layers in the project which you can then select (for artboards they would be considered as groups on that list). That way you have a fast way to select any layer and you have a quick overview of the entire document. Clicking on a specific layer to show what is clipped and/or grouped to it is nice and all, but I could see it becoming more useful if you have a way to see every layer by clicking outside the canvas as a contextual command. ^-^ Chris J 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen Death Knight Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 I think I might have found another problem with the new ctrl+R click menu. Apparently you cannot select the main layer with this system using this menu, only the layers clipped or grouped to it. Here's a video example where I am trying to select a pixel layer, but because it already has at least two other layers clipped to it it instead behaves more like a menu rather than a selectable option. In this video you can see me trying to select the layer "Line Art", but instead it only shows the layers attached to it. I hope that you change it so that any layer can be selected in this menu. Maybe add a small square space on the right of each menu option where you can select click instead of opening the "folder" with its layers inside it? This way you have an easier way of doing either action without interfering too much with each other. Desktop 2020.11.28 - 04.46.36.02.mp4 Another issue I found was that ctrl+R click doesn't respond to certain selections. For instance, if you have selected something outside of a group of layers (i.e. selecting the background instead of the foreground), trying to get the menu to show the contents of what you are trying to select doesn't work until you press L click first on that group. Then you can use this command to search through whatever is inside that selection. Would be good if this command tried to select the main group first and then show the contents in the menu just so it feels better when clicking on stuff on the canvas. Would reduce some of the tedium of having to L click -> ctrl+R click every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltop Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Wow, that's quite a list of fixes & updates! Thanks, team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted November 30, 2020 Author Staff Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/27/2020 at 4:01 PM, MickRose said: It will be Monday before I can upload the fonts folder. Do you still want it? Is it the Windows/fonts folder? Thanks for taking the time to upload these @MickRose. Really appreciate it. 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts