Affinity Publisher Customer Beta - 1.10.0.1098

[AdamW]

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

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We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher Customer Beta 1.10.0.1098 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.

Due to current and anticipated changes to help with performance issues this version is now 1.10.0 and replaces the previous 1.9.4 beta. All previous changes from 1.9.4 have been rolled into this beta.

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.

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Fixes and Updates

Major Improvements
Defer more text composition tasks until required. This results in a notable increase in speed when editing long stories.

General
Fix for double apply of Blend Mode in nodes with clipped children
Fix loading files via iCloud paths

Master Pages
When migrating masters take account of editability of candidate parents. Strengthened candidate name matching to disallow set and mismatched names

Render and Performance
Eliminated inefficiency in placed PDF cache handling
Improved Pages Panel page thumbnail rendering / caching
Fixed possible memory leak on Document Close

Text
Glyph Browser was showing corruption / failing to render emoji
Improve performance of Glyph Browser with emoji fonts by using appropriate resolution bitmaps
Text Style panel samples can be poor quality
Inline pinned nodes were exporting as a spurious character
Highlight individual clauses when IME editing

Resource Manager
Resource Manager cosmetic tweaks, prevented removal of all columns etc

Export
PDF Export - Reduced file export size when multiple copies of the same passthrough PDF are present

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[Seneca]

Just a quick note to say that this new version crashes almost instantly every time I open a file created in previous beta version.

 

Process:               Affinity Publisher Beta [22640]
Path:                  /Applications/Affinity Publisher Beta.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Publisher Beta
Identifier:            com.seriflabs.affinitypublisher.beta
Version:               1.10.0 (1.10.0.1098)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        launchd [1]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2021-06-24 16:04:05.8680 +0100
OS Version:            macOS 12.0 (21A5248p)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        165FC6DA-6D41-ABF3-EB6E-5B901110B07C

Sleep/Wake UUID:       168DB93A-9871-4407-B5EA-10D2463A005D

Time Awake Since Boot: 120000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       4217 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        7  Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes:       KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000070000a4beff8
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 10 Bus error: 10
Terminating Process:   exc handler [22640]

VM Region Info: 0x70000a4beff8 is in 0x70000a4be000-0x70000a4bf000;  bytes after start: 4088  bytes before end: 7
      REGION TYPE                    START - END         [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD  REGION DETAIL
      Stack                    70000a43c000-70000a4be000 [  520K] rw-/rwx SM=SHM  thread 6
--->  STACK GUARD              70000a4be000-70000a4bf000 [    4K] ---/rwx SM=NUL  ... for thread 7
      Stack                    70000a4bf000-70000a541000 [  520K] rw-/rwx SM=SHM  thread 7

Thread 0::  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                0x7ff807f4473a mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib                0x7ff807f44aab mach_msg + 59
2   CoreFoundation                        0x7ff8080425d5 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 319
3   CoreFoundation                        0x7ff808040c97 __CFRunLoopRun + 1325
4   CoreFoundation                        0x7ff8080400a9 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 563
5   HIToolbox                             0x7ff810b5f254 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 292
6   HIToolbox                             0x7ff810b5efaa ReceiveNextEventCommon + 587
7   HIToolbox                             0x7ff810b5ed48 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 70
8   AppKit                                0x7ff80aa24e3c _DPSNextEvent + 886
9   AppKit                                0x7ff80aa235e7 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 1366
10  AppKit                                0x7ff80aa15588 -[NSApplication run] + 586
11  AppKit                                0x7ff80a9e97a8 NSApplicationMain + 816
12  dyld                                     0x11c92d4d5 start + 421

[Old Bruce]

@AdamW,

Crashing here as well. Open a document made with previous Beta.

Affinity Publisher Beta_2021-06-24-083130_Mac-Pro.crash

Affinity Publisher Beta_2021-06-24-083045_Mac-Pro.crash

 

[abarkalo]

Was a bit concerned after reading crash comments above. I'm on an M1 Macbook Pro and opened a document that I made with the previous AP beta and so far no crashes yet. Speed of opening is ridiculously fast, but it was also fast on the previous beta.

[Jon P]

It seems specific to some files, we are investigating - thanks for the reports.

I'd revert to the previous beta here if you are affected by this

[R C-R]

No crashes here, but I have only a limited number of files created in any previous beta version to test wiyth.

So maybe one of you seeing the crashes could post one of your files that crash the beta here, so I & possibly others can text with it?

[Patrick Connor]

47 minutes ago, anto said:

I have crashes in windows, too. Document opens and after 3-4 sec closes. Missing Resourses. (after YES, or NO, or resource manager apps closes after 3-4 sec without any report).

Thanks we have replicated this problem and as you say it affects both macOS and Windows for some documents

[abarkalo]

22 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

Thanks we have replicated this problem and as you say it affects both macOS and Windows for some documents

can you post an example document that is known to crash and see if that happens also with M1. Or, will you test on M1. I need to see if I need to revert to an older beta.

[Old Bruce]

@R C-R and @abarkalo,

Work in progress 

01 Genesis.afpub

Text only, quite long.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks, @Old Bruce. That one crashes 1.10.0.1098 on Windows, too.

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

@R C-R and @abarkalo,

Work in progress 

Interesting! It opens in the 1098 Mac beta &  then promptly crashes. But it opens fine in the Mac 1.9.3 retail version.

[Old Bruce]

Thanks Walt,

I have tried with many variations of Performance preferences here on my Mac and it always crashed. Nice to know it is something with the file and or the beta. Makes me wonder if the previous beta was the problem. I am in the process of rebuilding the file in this one.

[abarkalo]

5 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

@R C-R and @abarkalo,

Work in progress 

01 Genesis.afpub

Text only, quite long.

yes this crashes on M1 Macbook Pro as well.

[Jon P]

We are aware some files are crashing open, it's logged with us.

Thanks for the reports

[Adriandw]

When you launch Affinity Publisher (including this and previous betas), it opens any files that were open when you last closed Publisher.

I had been working on a file imported from IDML.

Every time I open the latest beta, it opens that file and crashes immediately.

My bypass was to open the previous beta, which also opens that IDML file, but does not crash.

Then I close the imported IDML file, and close the old Beta.

If I now open the 1098 beta, it opens fine without trying to open the IDML file.

If I do try to open the IDML file, it crashes.

But it doesn't remember that file, so I can relaunch the beta without it trying to open the IDML file again and crashing again.

 

So I have a way to launch the 1098 beta without an immediate crash.

But it doesn't give me much confidence to use it (although I do love Publisher)

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, Adriandw said:

When you launch Affinity Publisher (including this and previous betas), it opens any files that were open when you last closed Publisher.

I think that's controlled by a Preference in the General section:

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

I think that's controlled by a Preference in the General section:

It is.

[Adriandw]

Thanks @walt.farrell and @R C-R, but suppose you're in the situation I described where that preference has not been set, and a new beta of the app crashes on startup opening a certain document.

Then you never get a chance to change the preference before it crashes.

So you have to either reinstall the previous beta, or, I presume, delete the offending document.

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, Adriandw said:

but suppose you're in the situation I described where that preference has not been set, and a new beta of the app crashes on startup opening a certain document.

Maybe try zipping that document into an archive & delete the original? That way, it should not open on startup of the app & possibly not crash.

[walt.farrell]

45 minutes ago, Adriandw said:

but suppose you're in the situation I described where that preference has not been set, and a new beta of the app crashes on startup opening a certain document.

Hold the Ctrl key will starting the application, and release it once you get the Clear User Data dialog. There's an option there not to reopen the active files, just for this situation

[R C-R]

12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

There's an option there not to reopen the active files, just for this situation

It is the second item, "Don't Restore Window & Documents," right?

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

It is the second item, "Don't Restore Window & Documents," right?

Probably. I didn't feel like starting one of the applications to check.

[Adriandw]

 

14 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Hold the Ctrl key will starting the application, and release it once you get the Clear User Data dialog. There's an option there not to reopen the active files, just for this situation

@walt.farrell

many thanks - that's the information I needed.

On the Mac, it's CMD + open the (with Publisher Beta) the "don't restore documents" option is under the General tab of preferences.

[walt.farrell]

16 minutes ago, Adriandw said:

On the Mac, it's CMD + open the (with Publisher Beta) the "don't restore documents" option is under the General tab of preferences.

No, it's still Ctrl on the Mac, too. This is one of the cases where Ctrl is used on both Windows and Mac.