Staff MattP Posted January 21, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 21, 2021 Status: Release Candidate 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 - Numerous drawing issues resolved - Fix for paste-style leaving objects with misbehaving lines - Fix for PDF export on an M1 Mac causing issues - Fix for PDF passthrough failures. Disabled passthrough of multi-page PDFs (for now, at least) - Fix for macOS beep when using keyboard shortcuts within the Export Preview window - Updated help Changes Since 1.8.x - Numerous export preview improvements (press Escape to close the preview quickly, you can now reposition the export dialog so you can work with it and the preview window more easily at the same time, shortcuts for zooms implemented (as per the main view), click-drag with mouse to pan the preview, Apple Magic Mouse better supported - Account-related improvements - Added user-controlled Mitre limit to the Contour Tool - Enabled PDF passthrough context toolbar control - PDF import improvement with mask images - 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. 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Dazmondo77 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 On 1/21/2021 at 4:10 PM, MattP said: Select Same / Select Object functionality. I'm happy to consider requests for extra options, so if you have a favourite, just say... Seeing has tick boxes for Layer FX and Strokes is still unticked by default would it be possible to have an option to select all objects that have layer FX so you can tick the sodding box in one go and save an hour of digging through layers - just spent all day on a vector illustration and realised that I've forgot to tick the majority of objects with layer FX - or is already possible Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Wow - Just had a play and it appears that 'select object - Curves' does what I need - even child within child within child layers - just ticked scale with object for Strokes and FX and it worked ---- ACE stuff MattP 👍 SillyWalk 1 Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted January 23, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 23, 2021 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 beta, as we are still making last minute changes We have 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 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...
davyo Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 I have Affinity Photo on new Mac and have the Font Combo Preview problem described for Designer fixes. Is Affinity addressing that same problem in Photo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted January 24, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 24, 2021 @davyo Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums The UI on mac is a shared element across the suite of programs and even when such fixes are not mentioned explicitly the same fix is coming to Affinity Photo and Publisher, yes. 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...
VectorVonDoom Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 "Improved performance with large documents" does that mean lots of objects or just a large canvas but not necessarily complicated? MattP 1 Marc ArtByMarc.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 25, 2021 Author Staff Share Posted January 25, 2021 9 hours ago, VectorVonDoom said: "Improved performance with large documents" does that mean lots of objects or just a large canvas but not necessarily complicated? We're talking about operations performed on documents with many objects. Physical document size has never really meant much in Designer until you start adding raster layers - and even then we should scale fairly well... Incidentally it's worth stating that in the future, we'll be able to scale to huge numbers of document objects much faster than we currently can... so don't fear Frozen Death Knight, VectorVonDoom and Gear maker 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorVonDoom Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Thanks Matt. I presumed it meant that but was just checking and that's good news. Although in this weather a toasty laptop isn't all that bad. MattP, Oval and Wosven 3 Marc ArtByMarc.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 7 hours ago, VectorVonDoom said: Although in this weather a toasty laptop isn't all that bad. This is a feature request. Perhaps there will be a new red button in future. MattP, VectorVonDoom, 000 and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 25, 2021 Author Staff Share Posted January 25, 2021 9 minutes ago, Oval said: This is a feature request. Perhaps there will be a new red button in future. Oooooh, I wonder if that's a patentable feature? lol Oval, 000, VectorVonDoom and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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