Staff MattP Posted January 9, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 9, 2021 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 - Fixed Contour Tool's light UI context toolbar icons being invisible - Contours now form miters (when requested) until greater angles - Performing a boolean operation on an object with a contour no longer leaves the new object with an additional (unwanted) contour - Double-clicking the View Tool's tool icon should zoom to fit - Export preview UI tweaks and ensure it uses the correct ICC profile to show the colours as intended - Improved performance of OpenType features Changes Since 1.8.x - Added export preview panel (for raster types) - updates live whenever you change an export parameter - Added JPEG-XR 101010 import support (useful for screen captures from Xbox, etc.) - Added new splash screen - Content download service improvements - Numerous assorted fixes - Help improvements - Localisation improvements - 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 - 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! - 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. 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lepr Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 9 hours ago, MattP said: - Contours now form miters (when requested) until greater angles Sorry for sounding ungrateful, but... First use and I already hit the "greater angles" and got a chopped off corner, so I've got to expand a stroke instead. Why not just give the user control over the mitre limit as in the stroke controls? affinityfan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 9 hours ago, MattP said: - Export preview UI tweaks and ensure it uses the correct ICC profile to show the colours as intended For Mac users not using a trackpad, we still need the ability to pan & zoom the preview image in its window. MattP 1 All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Oehlschlager Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Thank you for fixing the Zoom to Fit problem. MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 10, 2021 Author Staff Share Posted January 10, 2021 17 hours ago, anon2 said: Sorry for sounding ungrateful, but... First use and I already hit the "greater angles" and got a chopped off corner, so I've got to expand a stroke instead. Why not just give the user control over the mitre limit as in the stroke controls? I don’t disagree - I just haven’t written that yet and if I add it, I don’t know if there’s time to update the help and videos.... Frozen Death Knight and lepr 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 1 hour ago, MattP said: I don’t disagree - I just haven’t written that yet and if I add it, I don’t know if there’s time to update the help and videos.... Frankly, I find it strange/worrying that the UX professional did not specify a user controllable mitre limit from the beginning. Krustysimplex and affinityfan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 On my dual-monitor Mac, all dialogs still open behind the tool panels on my secondary monitor. Tedious to have to move every dialog, every opened file, onto the other monitor. If this is not where bug/non-implemented features go, please point me in the right direction. Skippy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 (edited) Logged into my computer this morning and Designer Beta had crashed. No file was open, just the app sitting idle while I slept. Affinity Designer Beta_2021-01-12-073429_Galway.crash [same again a few hours later] Affinity Designer Beta_2021-01-12-113434_Galway.crash This time, the machine locked up, then crashed. I was trying to open the Paragraph window just after opening the Character window, after the last crash. I'll not be continuing with the betas. NetworkingTopic_2021-01-12-144303_Galway.diag Edited January 12, 2021 by spinhead additional info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Tom Lachecki Posted January 14, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 14, 2021 On 1/12/2021 at 4:20 PM, spinhead said: Logged into my computer this morning and Designer Beta had crashed. No file was open, just the app sitting idle while I slept. Affinity Designer Beta_2021-01-12-073429_Galway.crash 115.66 kB · 2 downloads [same again a few hours later] Affinity Designer Beta_2021-01-12-113434_Galway.crash 103.35 kB · 1 download This time, the machine locked up, then crashed. I was trying to open the Paragraph window just after opening the Character window, after the last crash. I'll not be continuing with the betas. NetworkingTopic_2021-01-12-144303_Galway.diag 79.47 kB · 2 downloads Apologies for this, @spinhead; it's a recent regression and I believe it will be fixed in the next beta. 🤞 Thanks for your report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Excellent. I love having the font hover preview back; I work with typography a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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