Staff MattP Posted January 21, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 21, 2021 Status: Release Candidate 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- Numerous drawing issues resolved- Fix for paste-style leaving objects with misbehaving lines - Fix for 'Export Time-lapse' not working correctly - Tweak for behaviour of disabling external display presentation - hopefully should act more sensibly now... Changes Since 1.8.6 - Added Beta icons back (at the last moment!) so you know which version you're using, lol! - Restored 'Export Time-lapse' feature that I'd inadvertently removed last time - sorry.... - Account-related improvements - Added Contour Tool option to allow the user to change the mitre limit of the contour - PDF import improvement to handling of mask images - 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, AlainP and Seneca 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerhorse Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 We now have RC2 but there are still known bugs On 12/30/2020 at 12:15 PM, Powerhorse said: When I click on "Add Global Color" in the "Name of Global Collorider" window, designer crashes. On 1/19/2021 at 11:19 PM, Powerhorse said: If you click on "Bake Corners" in the Corner Tool, designer crashes. I am so Sorry, Google translate for me, I am not liable for Google ;-)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCamachoDesign Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Powerhorse said: We now have RC2 but there are still known bugs Yeah, but to be fair the global colour bugs are really minor and can be safely addressed after release. For the global colour without moving the sliders crash, since the dialog does not inherit the last used colour and always starts at white or black, you’re nearly always going to fiddle with the sliders, which makes the bug go away. The only way to trigger it would only be adding white/black as a global colour without touching the sliders. It would be best to fix this before launch, but not an issue if it’s fixed in the next few days. For the bug where the dialog box is not interactive when dragging the slider chooser, it’s also a minor inconvenience. Normally you fiddle with this once and don’t touch it for a while. In my case I set it to CMYK and leave it for good. Once again it would be great if this is fixed before release, but it’s minor and even less of a problem than the bug above. This can be fixed at a later time safely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 22, 2021 Author Staff Share Posted January 22, 2021 Both of these should be sorted for the next RC... LCamachoDesign 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madPXL Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 What about the fix for the Copy Paste FX with pixel value corrected for the RC3 ? https://twitter.com/madpxl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shokstar Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 I guess it’s not only me, this splash screen is really ugly! I hope you put a feature on to turn it off. Sorry but this is not the artwork I prefer and I don’t like to be influenced by ugly looking designs at the beginning. Please ditch it! Jowday 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 5 hours ago, Shokstar said: I guess it’s not only me, this splash screen is really ugly! I hope you put a feature on to turn it off. Sorry but this is not the artwork I prefer and I don’t like to be influenced by ugly looking designs at the beginning. Please ditch it! I won't go as far as you, but I preffered the previous one, especially on the Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 11 hours ago, Shokstar said: I guess it’s not only me, this splash screen is really ugly! I hope you put a feature on to turn it off. Sorry but this is not the artwork I prefer and I don’t like to be influenced by ugly looking designs at the beginning. Please ditch it! Lol, they say ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. The new splash screen IS different.😁 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...
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