Mark Ingram Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Click here to download the latest beta - This is now distributed via CDN, so downloads should be quick for everyone... hopefully! (note: on chrome browser you will need to use right click and use "open link in new tab", as this is an http link) Status: Customer BetaPurpose: FixesRequirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft StoreAs this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Changes Fixed hardware accelerated Focus Merge Fixed artefacts when rotating live filters as children of pixel layers Fixed Astrophotography results file labels being white in light UI mode Fixed cancelling Astrophotography Stacking to ask for confirmation before closing the document Renamed Linked Layers "Filter effect parameters" to "Layer effect parameters" Fixed JPEG and TIFF filter descriptions (was "Affinity Files") Fixed being unable to apply styles with a single click in list mode Fixed crash on shutdown while content is still downloading Improved PDF Import of text lists and numbers lists Fixed PDF Import incorrectly identifying clips as redundant and removing them Fixed copying of objects not copying their tag colour Fixed Export Preview scaling issues 1.9.0.932 release notes Wosven, PetervL, David Quail and 13 others 11 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Thanks, Mark. It's not mentioned in your notes, but this beta also seems to give us default keyboard shortcuts for View > Studio Presets > ... (But only in Photo, not Designer.) Edit: No, now they're gone, after some playing around. Patrick Connor and Uncle Mez 1 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narrationsd Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 > Click here to download the latest beta - This is now distributed via CDN, so downloads should be quick for everyone... hopefully! Well, this is a great move, but on very latest Chrome, clicking the link no longer works. I had to copy it, then open it in a fresh tab - then the downloads were indeed fast, noticeably so out in California.. I had a look, and you're providing an 'http' link -- not 'https' which is the only thing really acceptable these days, so may have crossed with Google's push on this. it's an idea, anyway, as I have actually in a career never seen such a refusal before... Same is true for the photo beta, but looked like might get better notice to report here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, narrationsd said: > Click here to download the latest beta - This is now distributed via CDN, so downloads should be quick for everyone... hopefully! Well, this is a great move, but on very latest Chrome, clicking the link no longer works. I had to copy it, then open it in a fresh tab - then the downloads were indeed fast, noticeably so out in California.. I had a look, and you're providing an 'http' link -- not 'https' which is the only thing really acceptable these days, so may have crossed with Google's push on this. it's an idea, anyway, as I have actually in a career never seen such a refusal before... Same is true for the photo beta, but looked like might get better notice to report here. Worked for me after a few attempts directly from Marks post just clicking the link. "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanPickup Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 I had to right click and select open in a new tab on chrome for it to work Jock Thomson 1 Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmrecs01 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 @narrationsd @Jowday @Mark Ingram @AlanPickup Same happened for me, running Chrome latest version: double-clicking the link in Mark's post, nothing happened (despite several attempts); right-clicking the link and choosing to "Open in new tab", download began almost instantly! Win 10 Pro, i7 6700K, 32Gb RAM, NVidia GTX1660 Ti and Intel HD530 Graphics Long-time user of Serif products, chiefly PagePlus and PhotoPlus, but also WebPlus, CraftArtistProfessional and DrawPlus. Delighted to be using Affinity Designer, Photo, and now Publisher, version 1 and now version 2. iPad Pro (12.9") (iOS 17.4) running Affinity Photo and Designer version 1 and all three version 2 apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted February 8, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 8, 2021 Same How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 No problem here. FF 85.0 (64 bit). ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 8, 2021 Author Share Posted February 8, 2021 Interesting. I'm using (new) Edge here, which should be pretty similar to Chrome. I'm not sure a 500mb download warrants being served over HTTPS, but the problem may come from transitioning from the HTTPS forum to the non-HTTPS download. There's obviously nothing wrong with the download itself if you can open it in a new tab (that may be intentional from Google, to prevent people accidentally clicking from HTTPS -> HTTP). IPv6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincsman Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Didn't work for me on Chrome, I had to copy link and paste it in new tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 8, 2021 Author Share Posted February 8, 2021 Just had a quick search, plenty of people been reporting problems with links not working in Chrome for years... https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/8845518?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/16888999?hl=en etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachnida Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Chrome said "This item can't be downloaded securely". Mark Ingram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djoule Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 No problem here to download with Brave (chromium based). Version 1.19.92 Chromium: 88.0.4324.152 (Build officiel) (64 bits) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Quail Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 CDN download is very quick. Around 12 secs in my case. Thanks Guys! Mark Ingram 1 Asus ROG Strix G713 Notebook: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 3.80 GHz with Radeon Vega Graphics | 32GB DDR4 3200mHz RAM Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB Gfx | 2x 2TB SSD NVMe PCIe M.2 3x4 | Windows 11 Version 23H2 Build 22623.870 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincsman Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 9 hours ago, Mark Ingram said: Just had a quick search, plenty of people been reporting problems with links not working in Chrome for years... https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/8845518?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/16888999?hl=en etc etc I have been using Chrome for years and never had a problem till this download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Wild Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Getting this when I try and open the download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykee Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 6 hours ago, Paul Wild said: Getting this when I try and open the download Click on More Info link and install Mark Ingram and PaulAffinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelnt Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 it is posible to install and overwrite 1.9 -non beta-? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, Abelnt said: it is posible to install and overwrite 1.9 -non beta-? No, the beta can be used / installed parallel to the retail version. ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Henrique Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 When changing the orientation with the new shortcut "alt + mouse scroll" the shortcut to increase / decrease the brush and the increase / decrease stiffness , also changes the orientation left me a little confused, was it to be anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 On 2/7/2021 at 5:08 PM, Mark Ingram said: This is now distributed via CDN, so downloads should be quick for everyone... hopefully! I can confirm that download to here has sped up considerably. It takes about 1 minute. The same applies to the AD download. d. Mark Ingram and Patrick Connor 1 1 Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes_L Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 I haven't tried all the claimed fixes but the Focus Merge is working (Very Fast) with hardware acceleration on. The whole application seems to have come alive. Many thanks to the Team. Mark Ingram and Patrick Connor 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 1.9.1.944 is now available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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