Staff MattP Posted January 13, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 13, 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 - Added user-controlled Mitre limit to the Contour Tool - Enabled PDF passthrough context toolbar control - PDF import improvement with mask images Changes Since 1.8.x - 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 - 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. 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 Seneca, pruus, DesignerMatt and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Big thanks for the mitre limit! Patrick Connor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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