Mark Ingram Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer BetaPurpose: New features, performance, fixesRequirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft StoreAs this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Changes Enabled (more) accurate history thumbnails Added support for JpegXR RGB 101010 Fixed crash when entering Develop Persona during macro recording session Fixed rotated or skewed filled rectangles (with no stroke) rendering incorrectly (fills extending to rotated bounding box) Fixed Hue shift slider background to not move with the slider Fixed crash when using Ctrl+Right Click (Selection context menu) on empty area Fixed crash on startup if a proxy is configured without a scheme Fixed inability to add tab stop lower than the already existing highest value Fixed pasted images incorrectly having the document colour space in Resource Manager instead of the image's colour space Fixed crash changing Character Decorations Outline Colour without a document open Fixed crash loading images greater than 2GB in size Fixed failure to load TIFF files greater than 2GB in size Fixed cursor not being visible after interacting with the Export dialog Allow variations in file extensions during export (e.g. *.tiff and *.tif). Default extension is first in the list (i.e. *.jpeg, *.tiff). Changed the preference 'Import PSD Text As Text' to be enabled by default 1.9.0.864 release notes Ken Cope, AlainP, Frozen Death Knight and 11 others 8 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Thanks again. Haven't installed it yet, but I remember vaguely that I got an information window that there is a newer beta, when you open the older beta. Same for the latest beta of AD. ------ 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...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted December 9, 2020 Staff Share Posted December 9, 2020 Please can users of this beta look again at the My Account feature, where lots of behind the scene improvements and more content have been added, and report anything you find IN THAT THREAD Uwe367, Dave Quail and Burny 3 Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imprex Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Hi Mark and Patrick, just tried to download this beta, but this is (nearly) impossible because of the very slow download speed from your (Amazon?) Server. This was never a problem before. Always done in few minutes.. I have tried several Browsers and made some others downloads/updates today (DXO, Adobe) without no issues.. Torsten Win11/64 Pro 23H2 NVIDIA RTX 3090: Studio drv. CPU I7-9700KF: RAM 64GB: &SSD Monitor 4K Microsoft Surface 8 Pro i7/16gB Win11Pro Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S. Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 I've had no problems with the download, it took the usual <30 seconds with a 250 Mbit-Connection from Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnobelix Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Imprex said: Hi Mark and Patrick, just tried to download this beta, but this is (nearly) impossible because of the very slow download speed from your (Amazon?) Server. This was never a problem before. Always done in few minutes.. Same problem here, for whatever reason. Cheers Affinity Photo 2.4: Affinity Photo 1.10.6: Affinity Designer 2.4: Affinity Designer 1.10.6: Affinity Publisher 2.4: Affinity Publisher 1.10.6: Windows 11 Pro (Version 23H2 Build (22631.3447) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberto Sdul Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 I confirm, the download takes about 5 minutes. Best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnobelix Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Today it worked with the download of Affinity-Photo, it takes about 3 minutes. The download from Designer took about 1,5 hours, very strange. Cheers Affinity Photo 2.4: Affinity Photo 1.10.6: Affinity Designer 2.4: Affinity Designer 1.10.6: Affinity Publisher 2.4: Affinity Publisher 1.10.6: Windows 11 Pro (Version 23H2 Build (22631.3447) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imprex Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 strange, still not working here... the download is very slow The download for AP took almost 70 minutes today from start time 11:37 😞, for AD too.. That went before always in < 1 minute Something is wrong with this server at Amazon. I have just downloaded Affinity Photo for comparison, directly from the Affinity Store. The time for this was just under a minute. Kind Regards Win11/64 Pro 23H2 NVIDIA RTX 3090: Studio drv. CPU I7-9700KF: RAM 64GB: &SSD Monitor 4K Microsoft Surface 8 Pro i7/16gB Win11Pro Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 16 minutes ago, Imprex said: strange, still not working here... the download is very slow The download for AP took almost 70 minutes today from start time 11:37 😞, for AD too.. That went before always in < 1 minute Something is wrong with this server at Amazon. I have just downloaded Affinity Photo for comparison, directly from the Affinity Store. The time for this was just under a minute. Kind Regards More likely it's an issue with your ISP, than Amazon. The files for the beta are hosted in the USA, so speeds may not be great to Germany. For the retail builds, we use CloudFront to push the files to data centres around the world, so they are fast no matter where in the world you are (i.e. you can't really compare the retail download speed with the beta download speed). One day we'd like to put the betas onto CloudFront, but I don't know when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb101 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 latest beta: saving .tif generates a "corrupt" 45kb file out of a a normal photo. opening the file crashes AF (files attached) A.tiff B.tiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 RE: TIFF - https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/129215-tiff-file-causes-affinity-photo-beta-869-to-crash-immediately/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasto7 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 As with previous version, still having responsiveness and speed issues when hardware acceleration is ticked with AMD Radeon RX 5700. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narrationsd Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Seemed to download fast, but maybe that was not in the same time interval as others - think I was very early after the email. Today I was trying to use it, which seems generally smooth as ever, but one bug occurred: -- I wanted to create a document from a png on the clipboard - I made a mistake first -- I had copied a text after, as part of getting through that 'registration' tryout. - thus when I went to create in Photo, it refused as not the right type the clipboard -- correct - then I copied the original png again - this time, Photo didn't even offer the Create from Clipboard menu item -- it was greyed out - I created a blank document, pasted the png in. Fine enough, just extra borders - so, I tried again to Create from Clipboard. With no changes, the png still on the clipboard, this time the item wasn't greyed out, and using it did the right thing, created a doc just the size of the png. Hope that's clear, and as always, quite enjoying what you persons do, all of it Clive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 1.9.0.876 is now available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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