Affinity Designer Windows Customer Beta - 1.10.0.1104

[Mark Ingram]

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Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback. 

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Changes

• Fixed subsequent view openings not honouring the 'Limit zoom to 100%' setting
• Fixed crash when text doesn't fill the frames
• Fixed PDF Import crash when nesting many empty layers
• Fixed IME crashes 
• Fixed potential artefacts in hardware acceleration on brightness/contrast adjustments
• Fixed TIFF files that have cm as resolution unit are calculated incorrectly
• Improved the noise in gradient fills
• Fixed double-applying of blend modes when objects are clipped to the blending object
• Fixed selection refinement and outputting as new layer with mask on a document with artboards
• Fixed Glyph browser failing to render bitmap emoji
• Fixed failure to load files with certain unicode characters in the path
• Added highlight for individual clauses when editing text via IME
• Fixed PDF Export failure with gradients that have large numbers of nodes
• Fixed vector export unnecessarily rasterising clips

Previous release notes

[CM0]

On 7/7/2021 at 6:25 AM, Mark Ingram said:

Fixed selection refinement and outputting as new layer with mask on a document with artboards

Awesome! an artboard fix.  Artboard users thank you!

[whitehead]

Mark, is there any timeline around solving the brush highlights issue as reported in the thread 'What Brush am I Using'...

(this thread beginning in December 2016) 

...and the GUI problems as reported in the thread ' preferences: add option to remove/hide brush outline'?

(this thread beginning December 2017)

As I see it, neither issue has been addressed at all and cumulatively all I think are ground zero hindrances to artists who would be looking to make the switch to AD and/or AP from CSP, Painter and the rest - a huge market. The 'sneak peak' of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfxzknVK_0 is interesting and welcome, but as ever with so much of Affinity development, handling 600k object layers feels so much like an eccentric edge case in comparison to basic GUI problems that make the apps hugely unusable if you are a digital painter.

1.10 feels like a milestone release but it is crushing to try out the beta and find all of these conditions as they were five years ago.

With thanks,

Peter  

 

[CM0]

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1.10 feels like a milestone release but it is crushing to try out the beta and find all of these conditions as they were five years ago.

I agree, I truly hope the next update can be a major bug fixing release of many of these long standing bugs open for years.

Fixing many of these bugs would be the equivalent of adding new features since some of these bugs simply prevent you from using Affinity in the ways you would like.  I think the vector brush gap bug on closed curves has been there since initial release.  Because of that, I simply can't use vector brushes in many cases where I might would otherwise for interesting effects.

[sifatboy]

If you write Bangla in Unicode, it would break down, the output would not come properly, now has this problem been solved?

[Mark Ingram]

New version available.