Staff MattP Posted May 5, 2021 Staff Share Posted May 5, 2021 Status: Beta 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 an incremental update to the 1.9.3 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. Thanks again for your continued support! Many thanks! Matt Changes This Time - Potentially huge performance improvements for large documents. We've spent a long time looking at this and have improved performance many-fold for large documents and improved scalability. If you have particular documents that still appear 'too slow' then feel free to share them with me and I'll do my best to look into them - Memory handling improvements - Fixed PDF Export group opacity potentially being applied twice- Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard - Localisation improvements vonBusing, evtonic3, 000 and 10 others 10 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 ACE stuff MattP 👍 Just opened a 6.53gb 28 page children's book in less than a minute, which was put together in 1.6 and used to take around two hours to open, then it was a real slug crawl to work on - to finish the book I had to split it in two but both sections still took around fifteen minutes to open and pretty slow to work on - now a MASSIVE IMPROVEMENT this is great as I have another book in the series to work on coming up - the only problem I have now, when working on these books, is I need to copy and paste into Illustrator and/or VectorStyler for vector distortions but there's now an Affinity bug that loses CMYK when pasting into other apps - this has always worked great with the last four books, but I've just tested and the bug is still there - I did report it a while ago and I know this will cause me bags of unnecessary grief that I didn't have in the previous books - just wondered if a fix is anywhere in the pipeline? 😁 Frozen Death Knight, Patrick Connor and MattP 1 2 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 MattP Posted May 5, 2021 Author Staff Share Posted May 5, 2021 I’ll have a look into that bug Dazmondo77 and loukash 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarkalo Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 this beta really does run much faster. I do have a question into why certain documents don't open well in Designer (MAS or beta). For instance take a look at the network 01.design attached - it would open slowly on my Intel machine and now super fast on my M1 and even faster on this beta. Issue us that there are lines between the shading areas, even if I export (see network 01 from Designer.jpg). But if I export to eps and then open in Illustrator I don't get any of those lines (see network 01 for Illustrator export). I've run into this problem many times and not sure what the issue is but if affects a lot of my stock vector art. network 01.afdesign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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