Staff AdamW Posted December 7, 2022 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2022 Status: Beta Purpose: Fixes and updates Requirements: Licensed Affinity Publisher 2 (registered to an Affinity ID account) Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download: ZIP Download Auto-update: Not Available --- We are pleased to announce that the first Affinity Publisher 2 Customer Beta 2.0.3.1674 is now available as a download from the link above. This beta is an update to the 2.0.0 version recently released to all customers and will form the basis of our first patch for 2.0.0. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the release version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below. 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. --- - New Document: Custom Document Preset order is not retained between app sessions - afpackage fails to find Resources on Open - Fixed spurious future version error under certain circumstances - Improvements with PDF Import and Layers - Fixes for RTF import - font name discrepancies, fields in footnotes - Update for HEIF importer - DWG Import scaling improvements - Fix for export of Books with Bleed - Preview exported PDF fails on book exports - Opening and closing chapters in a book can leave the files locked / read only - Crash opening a bunch of chapters from a book simultaneously - Export Panel UI fixes - Fix for Booklet printing model - Fixed some tool drawing issues relating to selections across spreads etc - Pen tool tweaks and fixes - Fixed hang that could occur composing vertical centre aligned text - OpenType handling does not respect lookup flags such as IgnoreMarks - Hit box of scaled text could be incorrect - Gradients on text strokes don't render unless the fill also has a gradient - Fixes for line breaking in some odd cases with punctuation - Merge runs of tabs using leaders - Resource Manager updates - Fixed various issues involving handling of placed document files - Placed documents with bleed can fail to render the bleed correctly - Fixed Help menu links - Light UI Improvements - Fix for disappearing rulers - Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes - Auto flow place: Added an option to auto-flow place to replace the content of already populated picture frames - More attributes are retained when replacing images in frames - Pages Panel, double clicking does not zoom page to view - Ensure global colour edits update live - Select Same Name should only select objects with user supplied names - New clearer icons for stroke properties (cap, join, align) - Localisation updates --- To be notified about all future Mac beta updates, please follow this notification thread To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this release announcement thread Old Bruce, A_B_C, md_germany and 4 others 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Hi Adam, does this beta include the same fix for saving to external drives using Ventura as the 1.10.6 update did? And the same question for the Windows beta, does it include the recent 1.10.6 fix for the Microsoft updates. Thanks Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M4 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted December 8, 2022 Staff Share Posted December 8, 2022 30 minutes ago, MikeTO said: Hi Adam, does this beta include the same fix for saving to external drives using Ventura as the 1.10.6 update did? And the same question for the Windows beta, does it include the recent 1.10.6 fix for the Microsoft updates. Thanks All the Ventura fixes in 1.10.6 macOS builds are in the new 2.0.3 macOS betas and the Windows and iPad 1.10.6 fixes were already in 2.0.0 releases MikeTO 1 Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 All panels for Palettes, Text Styles, and Assets populated with the same categories, etc. as in Publisher 2. Only 2 Style categories appeared. Re "Light UI Improvements" the clear white background for the Styles Panel and the crisp black text is very much appreciated! Just wish we had the same thing for the Layers Panel. It would be wonderful if the Layers Panel could be as clear as the Styles Panel. The Layers panel is quite difficult to work with; dim colors and badly faded layer names. ronnyb, debraspicher and Aleksandar Kovač 3 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.5.5. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6.7. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB. Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Should we also report bugs for this beta version that have already been reported for the main version but have not yet been fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 2 hours ago, PeterB. said: Should we also report bugs for this beta version that have already been reported for the main version but have not yet been fixed? No: Quote Current Active 2.0.3 macOS Customer Betas […] This is a quick patch which fixes some urgent issues and will be a short beta cycle, so we can release this update as soon as possible. The purpose of this beta is to give you an opportunity to try the fixes and report on any possible regressions we may have introduced since the current release 2.0.0. This forums are not for reporting bugs found in the release builds or for telling us what is not yet fixed in this beta. We are also planning a larger update with more fixes and improvements which will beta here in the New Year. (from forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/60-macos-beta-forums) Patrick Connor and PeterB. 2 MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB. Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 ah thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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