Staff MattP Posted June 12, 2021 Staff Share Posted June 12, 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 no longer considered to be an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers. As such, 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! Many thanks! Matt Note: All changes from the previous 1.9.4 Beta have been included in this 1.10.0 Beta, thank you!... Changes This Time - Support for Emojis in text tools! 😁👌🏻 - Further performance improvements to general operations - Misc text performance improvements - SVG import and export tweaks Changes Since 1.9.3 - 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- Fix for Trotec Job Control incompatibility- Localisation improvements dcarvalho84, Frozen Death Knight, Mithferion and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ra.skill Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Really excited to see Trotec job control support 👍🏻 Much of my work is done on a trotec laser. Just one thing missing… ability to measure curves and shaped lines… very important for precise laser cutting work. Please bring this feature. AlxFsl, KipV and Natters 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted June 13, 2021 Share Posted June 13, 2021 Fingers crossed that the clipboard will get fixed for next beta - still RGB only with 1.10.0.1 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 1.4.3 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.3, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.4.0 Betas 2.5.0(2430) www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziemo Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 great update, finally bigger documents work as they should:) Any idea when this version is comming out "offical"? More or less of course, is it going to be next month, or next quarter of the year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 On 6/12/2021 at 5:01 PM, MattP said: Support for Emojis in text tools! I was kind of hoping this meant more generically that color fonts are supported now, but sadly they still do not render in color in the document (except the Emoji font). It's a step, but comes up a bit short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 1 minute ago, ziemo said: Any idea when this version is comming out "offical"? When Serif deems it ready to be released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceocan Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 was hoping that after 1.9 would come 2.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 6 minutes ago, ceocan said: was hoping that after 1.9 would come 2.0 That was one possibility, but Serif staff have mentioned before that the sequence might go 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, etc. JGD 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...
lenogre Posted June 14, 2021 Share Posted June 14, 2021 On 6/13/2021 at 10:11 AM, ra.skill said: Just one thing missing… ability to measure curves and shaped lines… very important for precise laser cutting work. Please bring this feature. You can use cinema4d for that. You don't need to buy it. Just run it in demo mode. Before to do that, one precision : Work in 72 dpi in AD 1/ Export your draw > eps 2/ Open it into C4D. Respect the scale factor (Enter 3.528 because internal measures in Adobe are in points… One point is 0,3528mm) 3/ Select the path you want to know the length 3/ Go to Mode > Project Info > Structure That's all ! length.pdf JEndert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 15 hours ago, walt.farrell said: That was one possibility, but Serif staff have mentioned before that the sequence might go 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, etc. I mean, Mac OS X / OS X / macOS went up to 10.15, and Tiger even had point updates all the way up to 10.4.11, so it's nothing unheard of. And think of all the Spinal Tap jokes we could then make, too. MattP, Boldlinedesign and walt.farrell 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceocan Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 It would be nice having a bit more perspective from the devs. I know they won't tell us what to expect in upcoming releases. But I do think they can, and should, let us know what NOT to expect. I see a lot of people complaining about missing features like warp, blend, etc. Some even turning to other programs. It's not an issue if some feature will not come to Designer before a certain time, or not at all, just let the community know and let us know what the goals are with the product. I think it would prevent a lot of frustration with some people JGD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 On 6/15/2021 at 2:44 PM, ceocan said: It would be nice having a bit more perspective from the devs. I know they won't tell us what to expect in upcoming releases. But I do think they can, and should, let us know what NOT to expect. I see a lot of people complaining about missing features like warp, blend, etc. Some even turning to other programs. It's not an issue if some feature will not come to Designer before a certain time, or not at all, just let the community know and let us know what the goals are with the product. I think it would prevent a lot of frustration with some people You do understand that by explicitly saying what not to expect, they might be giving hints to their competitors both on which areas those might improve, and maybe even on what features they were indeed working on by elimination, right? MattP and affinityfan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 On 6/15/2021 at 3:44 PM, ceocan said: missing features like warp, blend Checked the feature roadmap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 3 hours ago, Oval said: Checked the feature roadmap? New roadmap?!?!?!? where?!?!?!? 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 1.4.3 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.3, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.4.0 Betas 2.5.0(2430) www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 On 6/19/2021 at 3:48 PM, Dazmondo77 said: New roadmap? Probably there will be no new one. The old one with features like mesh warp, knife and pixel selection to vector was mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenogre Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Missing features are in VectorStyler, the best companion of Affinity Designer. Boldlinedesign, Dazmondo77 and rocha 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boldlinedesign Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 @lenogre I agree. I've put a lot more attention and focus on learning and testing vectorstyler the last year. They have the crucial features missing in affinity designer and have been more responsive to input and frequently release updates. Where vectorstyler is lacking, affinity offers enough to make designer and vectorstyler a solid one two punch that can replace illustrator. I still want to see affinity take over and do well Dazmondo77 and rocha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbe Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 On 6/12/2021 at 11:01 PM, MattP said: - Further performance improvements to general operations In case someone missed it: 😎 Patrick Connor, debraspicher, garrettm30 and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenogre Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 I've still this little bug about render and color layer correction. Copy/paste in a new doc and return in the original doc > OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted June 30, 2021 Staff Share Posted June 30, 2021 54 minutes ago, lenogre said: I've still this little bug about render and color layer correction. Copy/paste in a new doc and return in the original doc > OK Hi Lenogre, When you first reported this @Gabeasked if you could update your post to include information we require as mentioned in the Bug Reporting forum - such as the exact steps you're taking, the files you're using and if possible a video showing the issue you're encountering. Unfortunately you never responded to him so we were unable to investigate this issue. Please, please when reporting issues to us try to give us as much information as you can about the problem you're seeing, what you expect, the steps you're taking to reproduce the problem and attach any supporting files you're using to reproduce it. If your English is lacking then please also attach some more detailed reports in your native language. We can translate this and attempt to fill in the gaps Just showing us a screenshot and saying its broken is often not very helpful to anyone, especially when it relates to a file unique to yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debraspicher Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 22 hours ago, sbe said: In case someone missed it: 😎 I saw this. His responses in the YT comments as well clarify their development focus which is good to hear. sbe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbe Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 8 hours ago, debraspicher said: I saw this. His responses in the YT comments as well clarify their development focus which is good to hear. Thanks for the hint with the comments, there are some interesting insights to read debraspicher and garrettm30 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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