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Affinity Designer Customer Beta 1.9.0 (1.9.16 - RC3)


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Status: Release Candidate

Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes

Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer for iPad From App Store

App Store:  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

- Larger back/home button at the top left of the UI on an iPad that has no physical home button (to aid the user hitting it!)
- New samples and associated graphics
- Fix for TIFF in Export Preview
- Fixed crash when choosing to 'bake' corners in the Corner Tool
- Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour without interacting with the dialog

 

Changes Since 1.8.6

- 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...
- 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.
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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

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self."  W. L. Sheldon

 

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@MattPThe preview options appears to be missing?

EDIT: DOH... Look at the other side of the screen 🤭😬 Tricky Matt.

 

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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/ 

 

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Hi!

4 hours ago, MattP said:

Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour without interacting with the dialog

I can confirm this is indeed fixed. Thank you very much!

This however is still outstanding:

 

It's a minor issue and I suppose it can be fixed after the initial stable release since it doesn't cause any crash or lost work. It's just confusing why aren't controls responding at the first encounter with it. Buy if it can be fixed before release that's best of course.

Many thanks for the global colour work, it's super appreciated! :)

 

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13 hours ago, iuli84 said:

Long-pressing a brush in pixel persona does not open the brush settings:

Thanks iuli84,

I've reproduced this - it looks like it begins happening if you long press on a brush downloaded from your account via the app. It will then continue to do it from non-account downloaded brushes until you return to the home screen or switch persona. I'll get this passed over.

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1 hour ago, Sean P said:

Thanks iuli84,

I've reproduced this - it looks like it begins happening if you long press on a brush downloaded from your account via the app. It will then continue to do it from non-account downloaded brushes until you return to the home screen or switch persona. I'll get this passed over.


That’s strange, for me the bug persisted even after changing persona or restarting the app. As you said it was triggered by long-pressing a downloaded brush; what fixed it for me was  deinstalling all the brushes via “my purchases”.
(And of course the bug gets triggered back every time a new brush is long pressed.)

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@Sean P A poster has uploaded a file that is causing his Designer app to crash when joining two nodes. I tried the file in the current RC3 version and it also crashed.

Heres the link to the post and file if you want to check it out.🙂

 

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/ 

 

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Bleed and Margins (still) not working in Artboards.

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/ 

 

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