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Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.9.0.11)


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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

- Export Time-lapse should now draw without pixellation when showing zoomed in areas
- PDF export improvements - particularly around filter effects
- Added 'Select Same Name' and 'Select Same Colour Tag' options
- Updated Help
- A few Big Sur UI-related tweaks
- Fix for printing of passthrough PDFs
- Fix a number of potential symbol-related problems
- Text improvements - particularly relating to mid-word punctuation
- Snapping tweaks - you can now snap to column guides if they're hidden and you have 'snap to hidden objects' turned on

 

Changes Since 1.8.x

- 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! :D
- 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

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Please can users of this beta look at the My Account feature (top right of the main toolbar) even if you have already done so recently in another recent beta.

We have now added the ability to link your Affinity app to your Affinity account through a new app registration process. This will have the advantages of you being able to stream any content you have purchased (or received for free from the Affinity store) directly to all your apps without having to manually install them. This is of particular use to customers who have more than one of our apps, or run our apps on different devices and operating systems as all your content will automatically be available across all of them.

If you register the beta app you will initially receive a free brush kit (the luminance brush kit) for testing purposes. This might be a kit you already have, but if you don’t you will get it for free. Over the next few weeks this will be expanded to include all of the store content you may already own.

 

There have been lots of behind the scene improvements and more of the purchasable and (historical) free claimable content is being added. PLEASE report anything you find using "My Account" IN THAT THREAD

Patrick Connor
Serif Europe Ltd

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I really appreciate that Publisher and Photo betas usually have the Auto-update option available. The download size is significantly smaller than a full software download (which is now worse than ever with universal apps). I wish Designer beta could offer that option more often.

See it as a sustainability goal: smaller downloads have smaller energy consumption footprint. Multiplied with the number of downloads, you have a substantial drop in the flood.

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In relation to vonBusing’s post above, the previous Designer beta 1.9.0.10 does have a 'Check for Updates' menu item but it only seems to see the the first 1.9 part of the build number and so offers no update.
Should it not be seeing the point release part of the number too? In this case .0.11 and offer to update?

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1 hour ago, markw said:

In relation to vonBusing’s post above, the previous Designer beta 1.9.0.10 does have a 'Check for Updates' menu item but it only seems to see the the first 1.9 part of the build number and so offers no update.
Should it not be seeing the point release part of the number too? In this case .0.11 and offer to update?

It does work when they post the updates, but it doesn't display the complete version number.  It has been like that for a while now.

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7 hours ago, MattP said:

- Added 'Select Same Name' and 'Select Same Colour Tag' options

ACE stuff MattP - These will come in handy - works great directly in Designer, although not currently accessible in pub via studiolink 

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14 hours ago, Dazmondo77 said:

not currently accessible in pub via studiolink 

Studiolink doesn't actually grab the features from the other app.

The Designer features that are available to Publisher are included in the Publisher build and disabled unless it sees that Designer is there.

Thus with the Designer build being newer than the Publisher build, the new features won't show up in Publisher until the next Publisher build comes out.

 

The type of modularity you seem to be thinking of would be technically infeasible while following the app store model, and since Serif releases to app stores, they need to do it that way to work around those limitations.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Can anyone else reproduce when in the Pixel persona that the Pencils brushes you have to press stupidly hard on the pen display or iPad in sidecar for it to start drawing on the canvas?.

Every other brush is fine and Pencils are fine in the Designer persona.

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2 hours ago, Skippy said:

Can anyone else reproduce when in the Pixel persona that the Pencils brushes you have to press stupidly hard on the pen display or iPad in sidecar for it to start drawing on the canvas?.

Every other brush is fine and Pencils are fine in the Designer persona.

Hmmm, that's interesting - I'll take a look, thanks! 

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