Affinity Publisher Customer Beta - 1.9.2.998

[AdamW]

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes / Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Available

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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.2.998 is now available as a download from the link above.

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 an incremental update from the 1.9.1 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.

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Fixes

Document / Spread setup
Document size presets create incorrectly sized pages if the Document DPI doesn't match the preset DPI
Business card templates shouldn't be facing page
New Document Templates are now alphabetically ordered
Fixed bleed / margin colour tooltips

Import / Export / Resources
Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images
Improved Brush and Asset categories alphabetical sort options
Fixed crash choosing Add Pages from File with 'After Last Page' selected
Replacing a scaled Picture Frame image wasn't maintaining placement
Convert to Picture Frame does not use default saved settings, cf Convert to Text Frame
Renaming then re-linking a cropped PDF or AF document scales the un-cropped document
Missing Content Status for placed PDFs
Placed PDF Page Box / Maximum Content calculated incorrectly
Add Pages from File could handle z-order badly when moving page content
Renamed Export Area 'With background' option to avoid confusion. Fixed other Export UI inconsistencies
Prevent overwriting a Package on document close
Fix for Export More > Preset menu being disabled

Text
Added Preferences option to normalise text breaks on copy to clipboard
Unwanted auto-correct capitalisation caused by exclamation and question marks
Inline text objects should not have Text Wrap options enabled
Text Style Editor > Next level should use "[Same Style]" rather than "[No Style]"
Active text Selection on pasteboard not always drawn correctly
Decrement paragraph level would sometimes find the wrong previous style
Fixed potential hang moving pinned nodes
If spaces are overset, squeeze them up to keep the caret within the frame
Performance improvements generating text wrap shapes in complex cases
Table Format Panel previews always rendered as RGB
Hyperlinks to Anchors can point to incorrect Anchors if Anchor name has been duplicated
Paragraph Decoration has no "inherit state" when used as "based on" style
Alignment context toolbar options for table cells don't work
Hyperlinks containing spaces at the end of the URL broken
Hyperlink button can be incorrect disabled
Anchor dialog doesn't display correctly on older macOS
Edit Text Style dialog list truncated on Big Sur

General
Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized Artboards or Groups
Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document
Guides added via Guides Manager are now clamped to Spread size
Master Page Guides could be applied incorrectly when a Master is applied to only one page of a facing page Spread
Transform panel ignores ruler origin in line mode
Showing a studio page should unhide the application UI

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[Michael_]

10 hours ago, AdamW said:

Replacing a scaled Picture Frame image wasn't maintaining placement

This is still not working properly as you can see here: I just changed the color mode from RGB to CMYK. When I actualize the image, it remains it’s size, but not it’s position within the picture frame. In Versions 1.8.6 this works fine.

 

[Jon P]

Thanks for the report @Michael_, we are looking into this

[CLC]

On 3/8/2021 at 9:27 PM, Michael_ said:

This is still not working properly as you can see here: I just changed the color mode from RGB to CMYK. When I actualize the image, it remains it’s size, but not it’s position within the picture frame. In Versions 1.8.6 this works fine.

@AdamW @Jon P  Same goes for Replacing placed PDF files via Resource Manager.
They don't keep the size, nor position. Also when replacing a resource that is placed multiple times, only one is replaced, the rest of placed images vanish and Publisher displays only empty frames.

When replacing with Replace Image button in the context toolbar, all the images are replaced, however they change the size (keeping the position though).

Been like that  since 1.9 release. It's a pretty nasty bug for a DTP software 😐.

Bug Report (reported for Windows but the same issue occurs on macOS).

[Jon P]

@CLC Can you try in the latest beta

Thanks

[CLC]

On 3/12/2021 at 11:49 AM, Jon P said:

@CLC Can you try in the latest beta

Thanks

Thank you. Now it seems to be working.