Staff Andy Somerfield Posted October 21, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 21, 2014 Purpose: Improvements, Fixes Status: Release Candidate Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not submitted Improvements / Features / Fixes - Improved accuracy of Expand Stroke function. - Tablet tip will automatically switch to pixel erase brush. - Fixed PDF import of CMYK colours. - Fixed CMYK colour readouts on large colour panel. - Fixed exporting of CMYK slices from RGB documents. - Improved OpenType feature naming. - Further brush performance improvements. - Ruler performance improved - especially in Yosemite. - “Use Only Integrated GPU” works properly. - Fixed issue with failing to open read-only files. JGD, Dale, MastakA and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Wow, the betas are coming quickly … impressive work, thanks! Raskolnikov 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I think this first betas are polishing as much bugs as possible :) before adding new features. It's the correct for me, stabilizing first the app. eladams and Figmatt 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Yes I agree. I'd like to see some of the fundamental stuff nailed before moving forward. sorry to keep bringing this up but... there are still, imo significant issues with boolean operations adding way too many (unnecessary) nodes and additional geometry for practical daily use. See my divide example attached. I haven't tried the expand stroke yet. http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulmist Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Will try the expand stroke and get back to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulmist Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Smashed it! Great job. Only tried a quick test, but looking good. Screencast: http://recordit.co/ilUSaczI5n Dale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamtwar Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 > - Improved OpenType feature naming. Well done, the Typography panel looks good now! JGD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figmatt Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I think this first betas are polishing as much bugs as possible :) before adding new features. It's the correct for me, stabilizing first the app. I agree. Shore up existing features before adding new ones. eladams and peter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Here's a test on the expand stroke with a pressure profile applied to the stroke. Getting some stepping (circled) in the pressure profile. Expand stroke looks pretty accurate though, even picked up the stepping... http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Hi Andy, adamtwar beat me to it; great work you have going there on OT support! :) That small usability hindrance on the sub-panel collapsibility isn't yet gone, though, but I'm guessing that should take a larger amount of coding than just string tweaking, so do take your time to get it right. ;) As for yesterday's CMYK bug, it's partially gone (the bizarre discrepancy between both CMYK field sets on the colour palette, that is)… Colour me impressed! :D However, the slight discrepancies in the CMYK/RGB values between AD and Ai are still present; btw, I'm using the same CMYK and RGB profiles on all files I sent you yesterday, both on AD and Ai: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 and sRGB IEC61966-2.1, respectively. Am I doing something wrong, or is this behaviour by design? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted October 22, 2014 Author Staff Share Posted October 22, 2014 Hi, It is a difference in colour engine. Adobe uses ACE (their own engine) or optionally Apple ColorSync. Affinity uses the LCMS engine (http://www.littlecms.com). It's generally considered to be the best engine available, so I generally trust results from it. These engines all make some assumptions, at different points, so I do expect minor differences in output. Thanks, AndyS JGD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmartins Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 The colors still look really weird when opening previous files with this beta. Specially the whites, seem washed out, with a slight yellow tint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmartins Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Also, please add options for optimising the PDF size when exporting. It's generating quite heavy PDF files, with many parts rasterised I have no idea why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted October 22, 2014 Author Staff Share Posted October 22, 2014 "The colors still look really weird when opening previous files with this beta. Specially the whites, seem washed out, with a slight yellow tint." This is now *correct*. Affinity is now showing you an accurate representation of how your chosen CMYK profile will look when printed. AndyS Quarian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Andy, Thank you for your clarification on colour. I also thought it might have something to do with colour engines specifically, but I just wanted to be sure about that. :) Just another heads-up: pinch-to-zoom doesn't work on my Bamboo Pen&Touch (model #CTH-670), which is something I may or may have not tested before (I'm guessing it never did, as it doesn't work in the latest stable release, either). It's predictably jittery in Ai, but at least it works (not that I use it much anyway, precisely on account of its flakyness, but, then again, *everything* except Spacebar-to-pan is jittery in Ai :rolleyes: )… Oops. I must be suffering from some driver incompatibilities/outdatedness; it's not working on Preview either (I'm running 10.9.5 at work, btw). As for it even working on Ai in the first place, I can't come up with a plausible explanation. :wacko: As for the brush and pressure support, it's all looking fine and dandy (I'm working on a Quad 2.26 MacPro4,1, so I'm having no lag issues here whatsoever), and Scroll-to-pan and Option+Scroll-to-zoom are smooth as butter, much like in the latest stable release, both using the Bamboo as a touchpad and the Magic Mouse. Still on the subject of tablets: is there any way we can regulate the brush smoothing factor (Tolerances > Fidelity and Tolerances > Smoothness, in Ai parlance)? Quarian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 [ Oh, goody, I just updated my Wacom drivers to the latest version (released in August), to no avail… God, I *hate* that company almost as much as Adobe, their support is utter crap… :angry: At least they didn't completely bork my tablet like they did last time I tried to update them, under Snow Leopard, before I finally convinced our boss to call the IT guy and update my workstation (I could've done it myself, but I had to have prior approval and don't intend to put that guy out of a job B) ). ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted October 22, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 22, 2014 Hi JGD, I do intend to add a 'smoothness' slider to the toolbar in the Pencil and Brush tools - I know that some of the users here have been after it for a while, so I'll get it done... Thanks, Matt dorkboycomics and JGD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangedrop Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Guys you rock ! I was only this morning having some issues with CMYK color !!!!! Couldn't have timed it better, thank you so much......... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CartoonMike Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 [ Oh, goody, I just updated my Wacom drivers to the latest version (released in August), to no avail… God, I *hate* that company almost as much as Adobe, their support is utter crap… :angry: At least they didn't completely bork my tablet like they did last time I tried to update them, under Snow Leopard, before I finally convinced our boss to call the IT guy and update my workstation (I could've done it myself, but I had to have prior approval and don't intend to put that guy out of a job B) ). ] [OT: Yup Wacom has fallen victim to the Big Fish in a little pond syndrome. I tried to get info and such from them for my book and they never replied to me or my editor. :huh: ] Mac OS X Catinlina, 2014 iMac, 3.5 Ghz Intel Core i7, Huion Kamvas Pro 22 Graphic Tablet, 16GB RAM, MacOS10.12 || Magic keyboard w/numeric keypad, wireless trackpad, Kengsington Edge Trackball || Flux Capacitor in a secure location --- I encourage kids to go ahead and play on my lawn. I mean, how else can I make sure the death-traps work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarian Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 "The colors still look really weird when opening previous files with this beta. Specially the whites, seem washed out, with a slight yellow tint." This is now *correct*. Affinity is now showing you an accurate representation of how your chosen CMYK profile will look when printed. AndyS Thanks for letting us know that Affinity is using littlecms, Andy. I was sitting here pondering if I could get much use out of Scribus as a multipage delivery system for graphics created in Designer (and how well it would work until Publisher is released) and, BOOM, you mention that both Scribus and Affinity use the same cms to begin with. How cool is that? Affinity ROCKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Hi Matt or Andy, any response or development news on the boolean or expand stroke issues outlined above? http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted October 24, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 24, 2014 Hi retrograde :) Well, I did look at the divide function - I need to spend a bit more time staring at it though. I'll certainly get there, but I think there are some other issues with divide anyway that means it might just need to be written differently (one ellipse containing another ellipse, then divided doesn't cut out the contained ellipse from the outer one, so the logic is wrong). With regards to expand stroke - I think that's working okay at the moment (although I have a plan to be able to do the whole thing better, just need chance to implement it, as always!) I know that your example showed some 'stepping' on the pressure line you tried it with, but that was the line itself, not the expand stroke function. I'll obviously need to look at that separately. Thanks again for all your input :) Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Cheers Matt glad to see it's still on the front burner. Yeah the stroke expand is much better that "stepping" is probably something else like you say. Thanks for staying on it! ;) http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smolli Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Hi there, seems the pdf-import is not so crucial to be fixed un fortunately, but I'll provide some more infos in the hope that someday my bug report will get noticed :) I provided a screenshot from AD and one from iDraw to see the difference. iDraw and other apps do the same, AD has quirks with splitting text correctly. iDraw: AD: Mentioned test-file Untitled.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OppiXP Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Hi, I noticed that the opacity setting for a gradient color is set back to 100% whenever I change the color using the HSL sliders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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