Staff Andy Somerfield Posted November 29, 2015 Staff Posted November 29, 2015 Purpose: Improvements / Fixes Status: Release CandidateRequirements: Purchased Affinity DesignerMac App Store: Not SubmittedDownload: Here To use this beta, simply download the file from the link given above and double-click on the file to open the installer. Follow the instructions to install the beta version. The beta sits alongside the Mac App Store version and will not interfere with it. Please note that if you use features which are only present in the Beta version then save your document, it will no longer open in the Mac App Store version. This is a Release Candidate build. It is our intention to submit this for review to Apple in the first week of December. Any help you could offer to stabilise and refine the product at this stage will be very gratefully received :) We won't be implementing any new features now for this version and we will be focusing on stabilising the product for the immediate future. We will obviously start adding more features again as soon as this update goes live. Improvements / Fixes - "Smart" alpha export - any exported / saved images will not contain an alpha channel if no pixels have alpha. This should help with DAM’s which hate alpha and with Xcode - which sometimes hates alpha. - Fixed issue whereby transparent areas of a palletised PNG export would be blue instead of transparent. - Attempted to automatically repair bad CMYK Levels values generated by older versions of Affinity Photo / Designer. - Fixed crashes caused by assigning a shortcut key to the place image tool. - Prevented boolean operations on artboards (!) - Stability improvements when moving artboards around. - Numerous localisation improvements. MacGueurle, My Strawberry Monkey, predick and 5 others 8
My Strawberry Monkey Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Nice, not long now. Any chance of getting rid of the automatic appearance of the canvas grid when you delete an artboard? ;) Allan About me: Trainer at Apple, Freelance Video Editor, Motion Graphics Artist, Website Designer, Photographer. Yes I like creating things!!! Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mystrawberrymonkey/ Twitter: @StrawberryMnky @imAllanThompson Web: mystrawberrymonkey.com Portfolio: behance.net/allanthompson YouTube: Affinity Designer & Photo Tutorials
A_B_C Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 This is great … :) Seems you fixed most of the art board bugs … the only issue I noticed (and I do not want to sound annoying, but this is still a major issue) is the snapping bug that seems to be still there: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/15272-affinity-designer-customer-beta-13512-rc2/?p=68914 Thanks, Alex :) predick 1
anon1 Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 and just to point it straight into this thread - linked bleed values so that you don´t have to type 4 times (in probably most cases) - same for margins please And very important (I posted it in the AP thread but it really belongs to AD) - bleed for artboards and bleed preview vonBusing, predick and Brian D 3
Smeikx Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Still an issue: If I drag anywhere on the canvas (with the Move Tool), a shape gets selected even though it’s bounding box is far away from the area I dragged in. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/15272-affinity-designer-customer-beta-13512-rc2/?p=69266
tiguchi Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 I noticed a serious bug in this version that I can always reproduce on my machine. When switching to the export persona the application hangs indefinitely and I need to force quit it. I don't know how to attach the crash report to this post here. It's too big to paste and there is no attachment upload feature. Let me know if you need it.
ikev7 Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 WOW Great step you guys are doing with this update, I feel that now is a pro app for graphic design, specially by the typography tools and pantone colors. I m still waiting a tool to distort mesh objects as illustrator, I think my money was well expended. well done! I continue testing it!
Staff MattP Posted November 29, 2015 Staff Posted November 29, 2015 I noticed a serious bug in this version that I can always reproduce on my machine. When switching to the export persona the application hangs indefinitely and I need to force quit it. I don't know how to attach the crash report to this post here. It's too big to paste and there is no attachment upload feature. Let me know if you need it. Hi tiguchi, Can you try restarting Designer, but holding down Ctrl as soon as you click to launch it? This should bring up a dialog to reset settings - select them all and reset. Does your problem go away now? I'm wondering if there is something unhappy about your setup (sometimes going from one beta to another will make some settings get into a state they normally couldn't be in...) Thanks, Matt
tiguchi Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Hi tiguchi, Can you try restarting Designer, but holding down Ctrl as soon as you click to launch it? This should bring up a dialog to reset settings - select them all and reset. Does your problem go away now? I'm wondering if there is something unhappy about your setup (sometimes going from one beta to another will make some settings get into a state they normally couldn't be in...) Thanks, Matt Thanks Matt for your quick response! Resetting the settings did solve the problem :-) Will there be similar problems when upgrading the regular app store version?
Staff MattP Posted November 29, 2015 Staff Posted November 29, 2015 Thanks Matt for your quick response! Resetting the settings did solve the problem :-) Will there be similar problems when upgrading the regular app store version? Great, glad to know that worked :) Typically, it's just a beta-to-beta thing - we often change things and sometimes they conflict as they evolve - but between major versions on the App Store the feature should be in and working or not there at all, rather than changing during development and going a little 'funky' at times... Sorry about that!
anon1 Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Please change in both AP AD that the numerical rotation input in the transform panel does not respect the custom rotation centre, but overwrites it with one of the 6 standard dots...
My Strawberry Monkey Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Just a quick update, as I go to the export menu and choose selection without background the app crashes. Tried it out at least 5 times in a row... Allan MattP 1 About me: Trainer at Apple, Freelance Video Editor, Motion Graphics Artist, Website Designer, Photographer. Yes I like creating things!!! Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/mystrawberrymonkey/ Twitter: @StrawberryMnky @imAllanThompson Web: mystrawberrymonkey.com Portfolio: behance.net/allanthompson YouTube: Affinity Designer & Photo Tutorials
MacGueurle Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Wow! You guys are so on top of your game! :) Affinity Designer 1.6 Affinity Photo 1.6.6 Canon EOS 50D iMac 27" 3,4 GHz Intel Core i7 32 GB RAM
mweisbart Posted November 29, 2015 Posted November 29, 2015 Love the canvas rotation! And the multiple artboards, but wish it didn't act as a clipping of the art work. Is there a way to override this? aaandy, GreyGhost and Frankentoon Studio 3
aaandy Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 Great work so far! Just wondering if you could reconsider grouping the Artboard Tool with the Move Tool? The Artboard tool is rarely used while the Move tool is used constantly. There's also a bug if you add the separate Artboard Tool button to the toolbar - When you select it, the Move Tool swaps to the Artboard Tool as well.
Frankentoon Studio Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 2 things so far: - Graphics are very choppy when you zoom in-out and after doing the artboard rotation. - I can't see the 'smart guides' anymore, don't know why. Question: Is there any shortcut for artboard rotation?, I think I still don't get this function right. The way I usually use the canvas or artboard rotation in other softwares is for drawing tricky angles with my wacom by pressing a key for rotation angle and then a key to reset the rotation. As far as I can see, in AD the canvas rotation thing is permanent. Am I missing something guys? • Frankentoon Studio - Tutorials and Resources for Designer, Photo and Publisher Follow us on Instagram | Follow us on Twitter | Like us on Facebook
predick Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 -Bug Report- For Artboard, Transform input boxes usually cannot work, have to close the file and open it again to work with the input boxes. Frankentoon Studio 1
Frankentoon Studio Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 -Bug Report- For Artboard, Transform input boxes usually cannot work, have to close the file and open it again to work with the input boxes. This happens to me all the time as well. • Frankentoon Studio - Tutorials and Resources for Designer, Photo and Publisher Follow us on Instagram | Follow us on Twitter | Like us on Facebook
kearn Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 Hi, Both Designer and Photo crash when clicking to go to Export Persona. I tried resetting both with the control key - clear the app - start and still got the same behavior. This is on 10.10.4, in separated window mode, with 8 GB RAM iMac.
predick Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 This happens to me all the time as well. Now I can solve it by changing Document Units to pixels, it always works fine.
Signguy Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 Opening a new document always reverts back to the Grays application color palette. I have tried to change the default pallet based upon document color format but the application always defaults back to Grays.
KipV Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 Canvas rotation gestures still not working. My Current Project | Previous Project | First Foray Into Web Design
Haluke Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 Hi everyone, When I'm working on a CMYK document, and I try to add tints of a defined colour - global or not - to the swatches, I get tints with RGB values instead of the original CMYK colour. Same thing goes for shades and tones as well. Also, when I tried the triadic, complementary, analogous colour chords, I got HSL values in the swatches palette. Maybe it's me, but I also couldn't find how to add only a specific tint of a defined colour to the colour swatches. This post applies to Photo as well.
00Ghz Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 There is a LOT of flickering when zooming in/out and multiple artboards are in place. A_B_C and Frankentoon Studio 2 UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai
lexislav Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 I still have some issues with exporting PDF. AD won't crash anymore, thanks for that. That really helps when working. But I am getting this error screen (see the attachment) when saving specific files). I was experimenting with file and it is related to some layers. So I have reduced the image to the layers, which make the file unexportable to PDF… The issues is related to the betas (currently RC3), I am able to export this file in App Store version. Hopefully helps make AD more stable and better :-) pdf export issue - c4test.afdesign
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