Staff MattP Posted November 27, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2020 Status: Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: Download Auto-update: Not available Hello, 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.x 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 this time - Added hierarchical antialiasing control - accessed from the Blend Options dialog on the layers panel - Added 'Export Time-lapse' feature from Photo - Fixed insertion target button failure! - Fixed font combo not previewing changes in the document correctly - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th or if you know the magic trick!) - Misc PDF export tweaks - Fix for Column Guides not updating correctly - PDF Import improvements (particularly around tinted colours and unknown fonts) - Fix for a UI issue in Big Sur (the vertical positioning of some checkboxes) - New samples! Changes Since 1.9.0 - Updated to work correctly with new 1.8.6 Mac App Store version - Universal build, so includes Intel and Apple silicon code - Fix for Contour Tool crashing and boolean geometry operation crashing introduced last time... - Added Preferences item to allow auto-updating of linked images in the document when the images are edited externally - Fix for 'Embed'/'Link' image placement preference working incorrectly from some dialogs... - Added 'Save as package' feature for easy delivery of a complete project - Improvements to application registration and content syncing - Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) - Added Studio Presets with, hopefully, complete functionality - Tabbing between fields in the New Document dialog should no longer crash! (sigh) - Fixed sporadic crash with Pencil Tool (yay!) and hopefully generally improved product stability - Fix for artefacts occasionally noticed in the noise pattern while editing objects with noise on a linear fill - Fix for occasional disabling of some buttons - Added registration page to the app - allows users to login and auto-install brushes (so far) - Fix for Select Same and Select Object when they encounter text objects - Enable image placement options in Designer (you can now choose Linked or Embedded) and also Resource Manager (from the View menu) - Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path - Application icon updated to fit the 'Big Sur' visual style, also document icons updated. Misc other Big Sur fixes. - Fix for terrible rendering problems - particularly affected cropped items with layer effects applied - Added ability to rotate canvas if you have a scroll wheel mouse (or two-finger vertical drag on your touchpad) if you hold down Command. This will rotate around the mouse cursor location. Holding down Shift in addition to Command while scrolling will rotate around the centre of the view. - 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 dcarvalho84, A_B_C, Jhonatan S and 4 others 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madame fleur Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Cat shape? Magic trick? I must figure out the secrets! MattP and Frozen Death Knight 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Hey Matt, can you explain or describe the new 'Export Time-lapse' feature? Frozen Death Knight and Boldlinedesign 2 http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 The export file thumbnails look a bit fuzzy on my mac. Anyone else? http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldlinedesign Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 1 hour ago, retrograde said: Hey Matt, can you explain or describe the new 'Export Time-lapse' feature? My first thought went to an option like procreate has now - where you can record to screen actions themselves. I googled "time lapse Affinity" and came across some videos explaining macros... I don't think that was the same as this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 2 hours ago, retrograde said: Hey Matt, can you explain or describe the new 'Export Time-lapse' feature? I believe that it is a recording of each "thing" being "drawn" and taking up about a quarter of a second. I took about 10 minutes to change the yellow blobs, lots of pauses and slow fiddling around just to see what would happen. Timelapse.mov Sean P 1 Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted November 30, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/27/2020 at 7:58 PM, retrograde said: Hey Matt, can you explain or describe the new 'Export Time-lapse' feature? On the File menu is a new option called 'Export Timelapse' - It will allow you to export a video that shows a timelapse of the editing in your document with a few configurable options which are all fairly obvious. See Old Bruce's video above for an example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted November 30, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/27/2020 at 8:00 PM, retrograde said: The export file thumbnails look a bit fuzzy on my mac. Anyone else? What Mac are you using? My non-retina iMac is the same, but that is to be expected - I get the same in 1.8 as well. Tried it on a retina based Macbook Pro and it looks absolutely fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figmatt Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Just a quick note about distributing betas in DMGs, it's possible to HFS+ compress the app (kind of like fast zip but the app remains executable) so it takes up less disc space even after it is copied out of the DMG. Mac App Store does this sort of optimisation automatically for apps that are obtained that way. By doing this compression as part of your build script you can use more extreme settings than Mac App Store and get bigger gains (see below for my manually processed AD Beta: 1GB vs 3GB). Apps usually launch faster (there's less disk access and decompression is lightning fast), or in the same time, and it is unlikely they will ever open more slowly. You can read more about this type of optimisation here: https://github.com/aonez/Keka/issues/149 AD (Mac App Store = 2GB on disk) AD Beta (download and manually HFS+ compress = 1GB on disk) ronnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 5 hours ago, Sean P said: What Mac are you using? My non-retina iMac is the same, but that is to be expected - I get the same in 1.8 as well. Tried it on a retina based Macbook Pro and it looks absolutely fine for me. I'm on a non-retina iMac as well. http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 9 hours ago, Sean P said: On the File menu is a new option called 'Export Timelapse' - It will allow you to export a video that shows a timelapse of the editing in your document with a few configurable options which are all fairly obvious. See Old Bruce's video above for an example. So basically like a screen grab recording of mouse clicks and what not? http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 26 minutes ago, retrograde said: So basically like a screen grab recording of mouse clicks and what not? The frames of the movie are the document composite at each step of History, and so you don't see where the user was clicking or which commands or tools were being used. Old Bruce and retrograde 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 On 11/30/2020 at 7:12 AM, matt said: Just a quick note about distributing betas in DMGs, it's possible to HFS+ compress the app (kind of like fast zip but the app remains executable) so it takes up less disc space even after it is copied out of the DMG. Mac App Store does this sort of optimisation automatically for apps that are obtained that way. By doing this compression as part of your build script you can use more extreme settings than Mac App Store and get bigger gains (see below for my manually processed AD Beta: 1GB vs 3GB). Apps usually launch faster (there's less disk access and decompression is lightning fast), or in the same time, and it is unlikely they will ever open more slowly. You can read more about this type of optimisation here: https://github.com/aonez/Keka/issues/149 AD (Mac App Store = 2GB on disk) AD Beta (download and manually HFS+ compress = 1GB on disk) Is there an utility/app that does this HFS+ compression ? Figmatt 1 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 On 11/27/2020 at 9:39 AM, MattP said: - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th or if you know the magic trick!) Good I read this: doing a backup of the original Cat ASAP. Best regards! fde101 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...
Dazmondo77 Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Hey MattP I think you forgot to mention anything in the added features list about the 'segment cutter' spotted by haakoo - this is a great feature (Ctrl+Click path, deletes that part of the path between two nodes) Bye Bye break curve hello delete segment 👍 Frozen Death Knight, Boldlinedesign, evtonic3 and 3 others 6 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...
Figmatt Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 On 12/1/2020 at 2:12 PM, ronnyb said: Is there an utility/app that does this HFS+ compression ? Only on the command line. Use macOS ditto command with the correct arguments, or afsctool from GitHub. ronnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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