Staff MattP Posted December 19, 2014 Staff Share Posted December 19, 2014 Purpose: Improvements, Features, Fixes Status: Beta Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: https://s3.amazonaws...stomer Beta.dmg 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. Important Notes: - This beta does not include the Corner Tool that you may have seen in our social media - it is still in development and is not ready for public beta today. - We’ve added three new blend modes in preparation for Affinity Photo: Lighter Colour, Darker Colour and Linear Light. If you use these blend modes in your document, then your document will not look the same when you load it back into the Mac App Store version as they will be replaced by Normal blend mode. Improvements/Fixes: - Colours used in the document should now match those shown in the UI and output. - Colour picker now picks the correct colour from the document. - Fix for stability issues caused by context toolbar changes. - Fix for Layers panel sometimes not allowing drag operations. - PSD export improvements. - Fix for Pan/Zoom spacebar functionality being intermittent, especially when using shortcuts to change tools. - Fix for right-click in brushes panel, etc. - Fix for missing histograms in the adjustment dialogs. - Improved Layer -> Rasterize logic. - Fix for document save logic that inadvertently caused an unmodified document to grow in size when saved. - Text highlight and caret now respect baseline advance. - Fix for many font UI-related issues. - Fix for gradient fill flyout menus not initialising with the correct gradient fill. - Added 'preserve alpha' option to Gaussian Blur effect. - Fix for studio tab logic causing incorrect placement of tabs. - Fix for window not restoring to correct size after switching away from Separated Mode. - Numerous other small fixes and tweaks. ! Audio Police !, 000 and ronnyb 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CartoonMike Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Well, that was quick. Thanks guys! Happy Holidaze to y'all! MattP 1 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...
Staff MattP Posted December 19, 2014 Author Staff Share Posted December 19, 2014 Well, that was quick. Thanks guys! Happy Holidaze to y'all! Thanks, Mike! We didn't want anyone to be suffering seemingly random crashes caused by the context toolbar changes in the last beta, so really wanted to push this one out sooner, rather than later :) Happy Christmas to you, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Cheers Matt, something to play with over the break. Happy Christmas to everyone at Affinity HQ! Better rest up for 2015 ;) ... something tells me it's going to be an epic year... :D Tim Gummer and ronnyb 2 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...
peter Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Happy Christmas everyone! MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Merry Christmas! :) Tim Gummer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRScott Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Thanks Matt, hope you all have a Merry Christmas. 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...
Lescot Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Merry X-Mas to the great Affinity Team and all the great people in the forum who helped me to get started!! Here my first illustration with Beta 1, finished in Beta 2 with the now working gradients :) Tim Gummer and Dale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted December 22, 2014 Author Staff Share Posted December 22, 2014 Thanks Lescot! Merry Christmas to you too! Hope you have a great one! :) Tim Gummer and Lescot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Merry X-Mas to the great Affinity Team and all the great people in the forum who helped me to get started!! Here my first illustration with Beta 1, finished in Beta 2 with the now working gradients :) merry-xmas-1.png Beautiful piece once again Val :) Frohe Weihnachten! Tim Gummer and Lescot 2 Twitter: @Writer_DaleAffinity apps run on: Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, GTX1650 Super Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 I just crashed the new beta 1.0.21458. I had a drawing open that I had been working on which was 317KB, about 70 layers all vector and no layer effects. In Separated Mode. I sent 13 very small .png images to AD from Finder (averaging 15KB each). They showed up in AD, I then clicked on File->New got a spinning color wheel and 5 to 10 seconds later AD was gone. 27" iMac late 2009 running Yosemite I just tried doing pretty much the same again. When the .png's were loaded the first time the title bar at the top of each had been empty except for the 3 white circles. I'm pretty sure the names hadn't filled in. The process worked fine this time. iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Merry X-Mas to the great Affinity Team and all the great people in the forum who helped me to get started!! Here my first illustration with Beta 1, finished in Beta 2 with the now working gradients :) merry-xmas-1.png Amazing! MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Awesome!! 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garytagreg Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Just to confirm that the 2 bugs I experienced in the previous beta (no context menus for brushes; crashes when saving over files) both seem to be gone :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I just crashed 1.0.21458 again in pretty much the same way. I had been working on two drawings for the last few hours. I clicked on File->New changed the DPI to 111 and hit enter. AD beta crashed. I tried it again and it crashed again. Tried it a third and fourth time, it didn't crash. iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andrew Tang Posted December 23, 2014 Staff Share Posted December 23, 2014 I just crashed 1.0.21458 again in pretty much the same way. I had been working on two drawings for the last few hours. I clicked on File->New changed the DPI to 111 and hit enter. AD beta crashed. I tried it again and it crashed again. Tried it a third and fourth time, it didn't crash. Hi Gear maker, I think we have figured out what makes it crash when creating a new document and it will be in the next beta. Andy dkistner1111 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Thank you Andrew. Merry Christmas. iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celliott80 Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 I'm having an issue where layers cannot be named. When I double-click, sometimes a random layer (or what seems random) will give me the label "Name of Object" but the input field will be blue rather than white and will not allow me to type any text into it. Only way I have been able to fix it each time is to restart Designer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figmatt Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Selecting a group of objects and then moving them with the cursor keys see them jump an arbitrary distance rather than the distance it moves on subsequent press of the same key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 26, 2014 Staff Share Posted December 26, 2014 Thank you for reporting this @matt. Issue logged. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smolli Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 If you want to open a pdf file there is a preferences dialogue that opens underneath the modal file dialogue as soon as I select a pdf file.. I can't move the file window anymore and so I can't click on the other window underneath. Check mate ;) At least I can close the file dialogue with the ESC key. I can choose open, move the window in one corner and then select a pdf. Then it's possible to click ok on the preferences window. The actual pdf import is much improved besides that, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted December 29, 2014 Author Staff Share Posted December 29, 2014 If you want to open a pdf file there is a preferences dialogue that opens underneath the modal file dialogue as soon as I select a pdf file.. I can't move the file window anymore and so I can't click on the other window underneath. Check mate ;) At least I can close the file dialogue with the ESC key. I can choose open, move the window in one corner and then select a pdf. Then it's possible to click ok on the preferences window. The actual pdf import is much improved besides that, thanks. I've had this problem happen to me too! I think we'll have it resolved soon - sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbwebdiz Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Hello guys.. I haven't been following the beta treads, maybe this has been talked about earlier, so sry in advance. Will it be possible for AD to export editable text to .psd? I have been "testing" AD for a while now in web design, and its great. The only problem i have is that i can't switch to it completely because my colleagues who are developers either don't have a mac or AD, and can't work with my design and code it, so i need to do that part too :) So, will this be possible in a future build or something? p.s. I NEED A RULER TOOL sooooo baaaaad :D i think its a must for web design, to measure distances between objects in a fast way.. Thanks, Boban web & graphic designer :: front-end web developer :: illustrator www.dribbble.com/bbwebdiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted December 29, 2014 Author Staff Share Posted December 29, 2014 Hi Boban, I think I need to leave the 'editable text in PSD export' question to Ben for when he gets back off holiday as this is really his area of expertise... but I couldn't agree more about the need for a quick way to see the distances between objects! I'll add it myself soon if someone else hasn't already beaten me to it! ;) Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbwebdiz Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Matt, My prayers have been answered :) T.Hanks you!! Keep on keeping on, Boban web & graphic designer :: front-end web developer :: illustrator www.dribbble.com/bbwebdiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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