Affinity Publisher 2 for Windows - (2.0.3)

[Patrick Connor]

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Publisher 2, version 2.0.3

We plan to also release this build as a MSI/EXE installer. Please follow this FAQ thread for notification of it's release.

The changes in Affinity Publisher 2 for Windows 2.0.3 (those made since the last release Affinity Publisher 2 for Windows 2.0.0) are as follows:

Fixes & Improvements:

• 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
• Opening and closing chapters in a Book can leave the files locked / read only
• Crash opening a bunch of chapters from a Book simultaneously
• Colour Panel now remembers user preference for CMYK documents
• Export Panel UI fixes
• Preview exported PDF fails on Book exports
• Fix for export of Books with Bleed
• 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
• Light UI Improvements
• Many and various Layers Panel updates and fixes
• Clipboard: 32 bit DIB support added
• 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)
• Hidden/Empty columns/rows are ignored when importing xlsx files into Data Merge, causes fields to get out of sync
• Help & localisation improvements.
• Licensing and Registration improvements and new help links

 

UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)

The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Publisher ).

If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store — each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Publisher for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (those installers are NOT for Windows Store purchases).

If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store — Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

[Patrick Connor]

All Readers

This thread is solely for commenting on this announcement.

Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Publisher Bugs on Windows section and questions about usage go in the Desktop Questions forum.