Affinity Publisher 2 Customer Beta 2.0.3.1674 (macOS) (Please use the later 2.0.3 release instead)

[AdamW]

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

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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.

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- 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

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[MikeTO]

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

[Patrick Connor]

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

[jmwellborn]

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.

 

         

[PeterB.]

Should we also report bugs for this beta version that have already been reported for the main version but have not yet been fixed?

[loukash]

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:

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Current Active 2.0.3 macOS Customer Betas

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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)

[PeterB.]

ah thanks!