Staff MattP Posted October 13, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 13, 2016 Status: Beta Purpose: Stability & Critical fixes Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not Submitted Download: 1.5.2 Beta 3 Here This beta is intended to fix any critical issues found in the current App Store version and should be considered to be more stable than the App Store product. 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. Fixes: Resolved Font enumeration crashes at startup, including utterly broken fonts that trigger a system refresh of the font list when enumerated! Fix for Mavericks issue with the new Export Persona Fix for Assets being dropped into the Asset Panel even when it is collapsed - which explains why some people are seeing an inability to move objects to certain areas of the screen (it's because the panel is still getting tested as though it was not collapsed and you're creating assets every time you move!) Fix for crash seen when creating Assets from objects like Masks that perhaps have no dimensions by themselves Fix for renaming Assets causing a crash Fix for inability to change paragraph leading BatteriesInc, 000, ronnyb and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Thank you. 2017 27” iMac 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 • Radeon Pr 580 8GB • 64GB • Ventura 13.6.4. iPad Pro (10.5-inch) • 256GB • Version 16.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krollian Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 We are approaching MAS publication!! Good work, guys! :D MattP 1 Graphic designer from Bilbao (Spain) FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer rocks! - Diseñador gráfico de Bilbao (España). FreeHand forever. Affinity Designer ¡mola! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 What about the other critical bugs such as copy/paste, grouping etc. ? :) smallreflection 1 UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPStephan Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 What about the other critical bugs such as copy/paste, grouping etc. ? :) I suppose they will be addressed as time allows. Despite your smiley face enlightening the question it still kind of comes across as ungrateful. You might want to think about how to phrase requests like these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted October 13, 2016 Author Staff Share Posted October 13, 2016 Hi everyone :) I explained before that there are certain critical issues that are actually causing crashes for users and we wanted to concentrate on getting everyone up and running first before looking into other things - I think we're there now (with the exception of one Mountain Lion issue with the Export Persona) so hopefully we can look into the other bugs that have been brought to our attention. Thanks again for everyone's patience - there are always wrinkles at every major version launch, and all we can try to do is learn from it and change some of our methods... Hope that makes sense? :) Matt 000, bogarguz, BatteriesInc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekikou Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 The application crashed while I was trying to add constraints to a group (which contained compound paths). CrashLog.txt MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRScott Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Thanks Matt Gregg OS X Version 10.14.6 iMac 27" 3.2 GHz i5- 32 GB Huion Kamvas Pro 20 iPad Pro 12.9" IOS 13 AD = OS IOS, AP = OS IOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONSO Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Thanks—we appreciate all the work that goes into creating & maintaining the Affinity eco-system. Truly can't wait until the system is complete. 15"-inch MacBook Pro, 2017, 2.9GHz Intel Core i7 | 16Gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 This is welcome news to these ears, or I guess eyes since I'm reading it! Thanks Matt! 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...
Inspirimental Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Dear Affinity Team, first I have to let you know, that I am really happy about AD and AP, since it is the first really alternative to Adobe PS and AI. I am working as a UI- and Graphic-Designer for more than 10 years now. In the last years I tried many alternatives, but none of them really hit the fence. So I am doing the switch today and from now on I will work with AD on a daily basis. I know that many details will not be perfect, they have not been perfect in PS or AI as well. But since AD is newly developed from ground up and it was fitted to the current needs I am very happy with how far you developer have come. Great Work and Thank You. However there are a few things that bug me and that slow the creative process down. The first things I have noticed so far: 1) Magical Repositioning when copying a group of text objects If you have a few text objects selected and you move them around (align them for example). Then you drag copy these objects (ALT-Key+MouseClick+MouseMove). The selected text objects get copied and moved to the new position. BUT: When I also hold the SHIFT-Key to align the copied text objects to the original ones, the already existing text objects magically move away. IMPORTANT you have to move the original text objects with the cursor before copying. I suppose the movement before the copying process is being reverted. 2) Rasterizing Layers doesn't work on selected layers If I select several layers and hit Layer / Rasterize only the last selected layer gets rasterized. I have to group all selected layers to have them all rasterized together. 3) Text to Path Really annoying is the Converting to Shapes function (CMD+ENTER). Before exporting a print document I want to convert all text to path. So I hit CMD+A, everything gets selected. Then I hit CMD+ENTER but all Text that is grouped or hidden in other layers doesn't get converted. So I have to open every group and sub groups, select any text layer and do the conversion again and again. This takes way to much time, if you have to produce every day. 4) Exporting blended layers to PDF will cause wrong color Attached please find two Screenshots. No1 is from AD, No2 is from Preview after exporting to PDF/X-3. I used different blend modes on the cars, this is probably causing the wrong color. Maybe the rasterizer on the PDF export can be reviewed. If I rasterize the blended objects including the background before export, everything is fine. If I can provide more information, please let me know. Tim 00Ghz and predick 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonBusing Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Fix for Mavericks issue with the new Export Persona I can confirm this works nicely. Completely new multiple export possibilities opens. Thanks! :) MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorfedora Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Hmm. Apparently the fix for PSDs with noise gradients causing a crash didn't make it into this beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonBusing Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 3) Text to Path Really annoying is the Converting to Shapes function (CMD+ENTER). Before exporting a print document I want to convert all text to path. So I hit CMD+A, everything gets selected. Then I hit CMD+ENTER but all Text that is grouped or hidden in other layers doesn't get converted. So I have to open every group and sub groups, select any text layer and do the conversion again and again. This takes way to much time, if you have to produce every day. Theoretically, you should be able to select the "Text as curves" option for the fonts in the actual export setting rather than to have to manually convert all text to curve before export. But, I agree - I've been there too - there should be some kind of "apply to all embedded/included in selection objects/texts" option when performing actions. ronnyb and Inspirimental 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Oh no, Crash! Copied a symbol from one doc to another, then pressed detach in the symbols panel. Then I unchecked the vertical scaling constraint - KA BOOOM! I've attached the crash log and it reliably crashes every time so I could supply the file if required? Happens in this beta and MAS version 1.5.1 crashLog.rtf MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspirimental Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Theoretically, you should be able to select the "Text as curves" option for the fonts in the actual export setting rather than to have to manually convert all text to curve before export. But, I agree - I've been there too - there should be some kind of "apply to all embedded/included in selection objects/texts" option when performing actions. Thanks for the hint. I didn't see that option in Export. This helps a lot. Nevertheless an "Apply to all ..." option / check box, as you already mentioned, would be wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas14 Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 was mache ich falsch? www.donath-photographie.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Depa Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Is your photolibrary on an external drive ? Try to drag the photolibrary in the window ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoopys Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 I'm really happy to see that this latest beta works perfectly unlike the latest versions (1.5 - 1.5.1) Senza titolo.tiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signguy Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Geometry and expand stroke not working with text in Beta 3 1. Create Text using artistic text tool (T) 2. Give the Text a stroke (I do this many times to either make a font thicker or thinner depending on the font I'm working with). 3. Convert the text to curves 4. Select each letter within the Group 5. Expand Stroke In MAS version, you can expand the stroke and select the stroke and letter and use geometry on each object. In Beta version, you can not expand the stroke or use geometry on the objects. EDIT: Closed Beta and restarted with new document and it works now. I'll keep an eye on this and see if I can duplicate the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas14 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Depa, die Foto-Library liegt nicht auf einem externen Laufwerk...aber ich denke, jetzt den Fehler gefunden zu haben. Danke für die Hilfe! www.donath-photographie.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas14 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 sorry, es funktioniert doch nicht, es kann ja nicht im Sinn des Erfinders sein, erst die Librarys (Aperture, was extrem dauert bis der Pfad gefunden ist und Foto, auch hier dauert es eine Ewigkeit ) nach dem Programmstart jedesmal „händisch” in das Fenster des Medienbrowsers zu ziehen... www.donath-photographie.eu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 sorry, es funktioniert doch nicht, es kann ja nicht im Sinn des Erfinders sein, erst die Librarys (Aperture, was extrem dauert bis der Pfad gefunden ist und Foto, auch hier dauert es eine Ewigkeit ) nach dem Programmstart jedesmal „händisch” in das Fenster des Medienbrowsers zu ziehen... That is just still the most absurd component of the affinity suite, I would not bother two seconds with that hack which is just the preview from apple bundled into a cheap UI (can´t even natively preview it´s own file format) Sadly their giraffe team did not get engaged with it yet https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/5336-file-system/?p=34546 Better get a proper file viewer like adobe bridge or just drag and drop from your filesystem/ finder A_B_C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Jonen Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 was mache ich falsch? Stell dir einfach vor diese Funktion existiert nicht. Problem gelöst. Die Schnittstelle von Apple taugt nichts. Exportiere die Bilder als Original (via Photos), dann bekommst Du auch was gescheites raus, nicht nur 8-Bit JPGs. anon1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pela Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Guys I can't open beta is asking me to purchase.. doesn't see the purchase version at all am I the only one.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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