Staff MattP Posted January 13, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 13, 2021 Status: Beta Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer for iPad From App Store App Store: Not submitted Download link: Join the TestFlight Hello, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Affinity Designer Beta 1.9.0 for iPad. 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 1.8.6 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! Matt Changes This Time - Added Contour Tool option to allow the user to change the mitre limit of the contour - PDF import improvement to handling of mask images Changes Since 1.8.6 - Fix for Preferences crash for non-English setups - Added Preference option (under 'General') to disable external screen broadcasting - New splash screen - Numerous contour related fixes - Fix for Transform studio being incorrect and not allowing access to Constraints - Removed Package feature for now - Added Export Timelapse video - Added Snapping to Pixel Selection Bounds - Help improvements - Added Export Preview in the Export dialog - Fix for colour-picker not working correctly in brush tools - 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 Layer Options view in the layers studio - New cat shape (accessible on Friday 13th) - Fix for printing of passthrough PDFs - Misc PDF export tweaks - Fix for Column Guides not updating correctly - PDF Import improvements (particularly around tinted colours and unknown fonts) - Application registration and content streaming (see post below) - Fix for pixel layers inside symbols occasionally acting incorrectly (painting may not apply to all symbol instances, items may transform oddly, for example) - 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 - Added option for Designer to be able to show/hide overflow text - particularly useful for text on a path - Fix for terrible rendering problems - particularly affected cropped items with layer effects applied - Added 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. iuli, Alfred and pruus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Hi Matt, app is still crashing when adding a global colour without first touching colour wheel. Also no dropper to select an initial global colour from the current drawing. iuli and LCamachoDesign 1 1 M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerhorse Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 @DM1 the bug is known. In Affinty Photo he is also, it is probably hard to fix him I am so Sorry, Google translate for me, I am not liable for Google ;-)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizwud Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 The preference for present on external display didn’t work. I can’t mirror the screen even when the toggle is disabled. I use external display regularly so thanks for adding this feature. I sent beta feedback about this issue on test flight but not sure if it was sent. (There’s no notification or something that it was sent). I also hope for more keyboard shortcut in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted January 15, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 15, 2021 17 hours ago, bizwud said: The preference for present on external display didn’t work. I can’t mirror the screen even when the toggle is disabled. I use external display regularly so thanks for adding this feature. I sent beta feedback about this issue on test flight but not sure if it was sent. (There’s no notification or something that it was sent). I also hope for more keyboard shortcut in the future. Hi bizwud, Thanks for letting us know - I've just been trying this myself and I believe I've replicated the issue. Can you try disconnecting from your display and having the option disabled and then load up a document. Once the document has loaded can you then connect to your display (ideally from Control Centre, by dragging down from the top right) - this should acknowledge the checkbox state and mirror the iPad's screen. However if you switch document it will go back to ignoring the state. This has now been passed on to development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukmankc Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Still no have feature for import color palette 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerhorse Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 @lukmankcWe all do not understand why this function is still not added https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/62515-affinity-designer-ipad-color-palette-import/ I am so Sorry, Google translate for me, I am not liable for Google ;-)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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