Affinity Publisher Customer Beta - 1.9.4.1082

[AdamW]

Status: Beta
Purpose: Fixes and Improvements
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Windows Store: Not Submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Available

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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.9.4.1082 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 1.9.2 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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This beta has a performance focus. We have addressed a number of issues particularly with the handling of placed images and documents. If you notice performance improvements (or regressions!) over 1.9.2, or if you notice bugs which appear to have been introduced in 1.9.4, please let us know.

• Resource Manager Improvements
  • New 'Relink' option for missing resources
  • New 'File Type' column in Resource Manager
  • Improved efficiency when updating Resources for some documents
  • Show progress for long operations
• Improved memory management for placed PDFs set to Passthrough
• Improved output of placed PDFs set to Passthrough to targets not supporting Passthrough
• Artboard Labels could disappear
• Fixed some issues with Picture Frame content scaling

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To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, AdamW said:

New 'Relink' option for missing resources

Thanks for including that. Works well.

[SPaceBar]

Hi @AlanPickup Could you zip up your file including the assets and upload it here please so I can take a look at it for you?

[AlanPickup]

Uploaded

[dozer77]

I'm seeing a regression in memory uses and in resource panel access in both memory use and time.  This is on the HOK project I sent in to the team with Mandarin characters.   This is for PDF Links.

[dozer77]

24 minutes ago, dozer77 said:

I'm seeing a regression in memory uses and in resource panel access in both memory use and time.  This is on the HOK project I sent in to the team with Mandarin characters.   This is for PDF Links.

Garbage collection must not be working well... or there must be a memory leak.  I closed the document that is causing the issues and the app gives back no memory. 

[Jon P]

@dozer77 I have a test file with many linked PDF's that is taking up a lot of memory when resource manager is open and eventually writing to my disk and using most of that up, I'll get this logged.

[dozer77]

On 6/7/2021 at 6:48 AM, Jon P said:

@dozer77 I have a test file with many linked PDF's that is taking up a lot of memory when resource manager is open and eventually writing to my disk and using most of that up, I'll get this logged.

I just test this file on the Mac Beta of Publisher and the experience is night and day.  No hanging in the Resources Menu, Open and Save is fast.  Windows hardware is fast Samsung 970 pro NVME  and 2070 GPU...all files local.   

[dozer77]

Image scaling doesn't seem to be working or does lock children when applying images to the master and then using on pages.

 

 

I confirmed this is an issue in the current Windows version as well.  Also I can't seem to reproducer the bug I saw ...where the image frames showed in the preview pages but not on the page...