Mark Ingram Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Click here to download the latest beta Status: Customer BetaPurpose: New featuresRequirements: A valid product key, issued when Windows Affinity Designer version 1.5 was purchased.This is a beta of a substantial change to our codebase and as much as we have tried to ensure the quality of the code, it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that you may be adversely affected by the application failing. In addition it is definitely worth noting that files created in Affinity 1.6 may not open in 1.5 so always make a copy of your important documents before opening them in 1.6 to ensure you do not accidentally overwrite them and are unable to open them in your 1.5 version.We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post here and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum. Fixes Fixed drag and drop of files into Application Fixed crash on Windows 10 when opening a file from the recent menu Fixed blown colours shown incorrectly after colour conversion Fixed Glyph Browser fails to show the selected font Fixed new Artistic Text from jiggling as it is dragged out Improved stroke expansion Changed text to always render at full quality when typing Fixed Font popup font list and search to be case insensitive Fixed Character Panel flashes when you first open it Fixed black window border on some dialogs Fixed Raster Brush Editing dialog showing a vertical scrollbar Fixed floating panels don't stay attached when one is hidden Fixed PDF export of embedded documents (thanks claycle) Fixed PDF import of images with alpha channels of a differing size to the colour channels (thanks pixeldroid) Fixed crash when adding a Global Colour from a recent swatch Burny, Renzatic, Dertyde94 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubs Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 10 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said: Improved stroke expansion Yes! Great fix, thanks. Burny and Dertyde94 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubs Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Thanks for fixing drag and drop files and the case-sensitivity problem in the fonts list, much welcome. Mark Ingram and Burny 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Thanks for the latest Beta update... Wow..improved stroke expansion..Brilliant.... been looking forward to that... Brush H S L Jitter now working as well I have just been playing with the text tool and unfortunately I get a couple of issues 1. The artistic text tool is 'jumpy' and sticks to the snapping 2. The Frame text tool starts as you drag out and then crashes Designer (works to position where the bounding box comes into contact with a snapping point [page or object]) Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2415 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlainP Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 53 minutes ago, Stuart_R said: 1. The artistic text tool is 'jumpy' and sticks to the snapping 2. The Frame text tool starts as you drag out and then crashes Designer (works to position where the bounding box comes into contact with a snapping point [page or object]) I had the exact same problem when I first started AD. After I terminated the app I restarted it while holding "Ctrl" and resetting everything. Both text tools now work as expected. I had to do the samething in Photo. -- Window 11 - 32 gb - Intel I7 - 8700 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 -- iPad Pro 2020 - 12,9 - 256 gb - Apple Pencil 2 -- iPad 9th gen 256 gb - Apple Pencil 1 -- Macbook Air 15" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt.baker Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 The Text Frame tool is definitely broken with guide snapping turned on. Even after resetting all app settings using the Ctrl key shortcut at startup (and re-enabling snapping). It just goes into high CPU usage and becomes unresponsive, but Windows doesn't see it as a frozen application. I would also say that the expand stroke is still not 100% fixed. For example creating an ellispe and expanding the stroke results in the following path which is no longer elliptical: A total of 24 nodes when it only needs 8 (one on each quadrant). AdamRatai and rubs 2 Highly recommended open source screen capture software (useful for bug reports). https://getsharex.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 24 minutes ago, AlainP said: I had the exact same problem when I first started AD. After I terminated the app I restarted it while holding "Ctrl" and resetting everything. Both text tools now work as expected. I had to do the samething in Photo. Resetting the app switches off snapping Switch snapping back on and the Frame Text Tool hangs the app To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubs Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 18 minutes ago, mattb5906 said: A total of 24 nodes when it only needs 8 (one on each quadrant). Four of these are sharp nodes (like in prior versions), but ideally all nodes should be smooth. matt.baker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kzidek Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Tried this version with XP-Pen Star03 (Ugee M708) tablet and the high precision tablet input enabled. (latest driver: Dec 29 - 2016 - V8.1.2016.1002, WinTab32 V8.1.2016.906 / 10x6”, 2048-levels, System: Windows 8.1 x64 + 8GB RAM + Geforce 755M + SSD) It is possible sometimes to continually draw with all new features. Sometimes the line gets broken in the middle (vector/raster persona). After a while the input stops responding and the application starts to massively increase memory usage and completely freezes system. Another brush tools (smudge etc.) are freezing almost instantly. Attached image - Started drawing with Vector Brush (A4 blank canvas). The line started to get broken. With pen movement, there appear straight lines from/to(?) cursor position. The situation generates massive amount of curves. Lifting the pen from surface of the tablet does nothing - hovering over the surface continues to generate more lines and using memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartRc Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 1 hour ago, AlainP said: I had the exact same problem when I first started AD. After I terminated the app I restarted it while holding "Ctrl" and resetting everything. Both text tools now work as expected. I had to do the samething in Photo. Fantastic this fixes the issue..... (without snapping) but not for snapping active Affinity Version 1 (10.6) Affinity Version 2.4.2 All (Designer | Photo | Publisher) Beta; 2.5 2.2415 OS:Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.4046+ Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0 Rig:AMD FX 8350 and AMD Radeon (R9 380 Series) Settings Version 21.04.01 Radeon Settings Version 2020 20.1.03) + Wacom Intuous 4M with driver 6.3.41-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted August 15, 2017 Author Share Posted August 15, 2017 I'm looking at the issue now, so it'll hopefully be fixed in the next beta. Aammppaa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickRose Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 I can't start the program. I get an "Unhandled Exception" error. The previous beta (79) got as far as the opening screen but I got the same message as soon as I tried to do anything. Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlainP Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 1 hour ago, Stuart_R said: Fantastic this fixes the issue..... (without snapping) but not for snapping active You're right, re-enabling Snapping.... Text Tool becomes unuseable. -- Window 11 - 32 gb - Intel I7 - 8700 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 -- iPad Pro 2020 - 12,9 - 256 gb - Apple Pencil 2 -- iPad 9th gen 256 gb - Apple Pencil 1 -- Macbook Air 15" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andre luiz Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Still giving error when starting. Wiredframe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiredframe Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Me too, makes me very sad I really want to use vertical align middle in my designs ^^ Error Code: 0xe06d7363 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 For the people getting crashes at startup. Can you do the following: Start the application, wait for the crash Don't click OK Go to %APPDATA%\Affinity\Designer\1.0 (Beta)\ in Windows Explorer Attach any files in the CrashReports folder to a post in this thread Click OK on crash message Add the contents of the directory to a zip file and upload to a post in this thread Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiredframe Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Thanks Mark, but as I said in the other beta thread, there is no crash report. I'm running Windows 10 Build 10240 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 32 minutes ago, Wiredframe said: Thanks Mark, but as I said in the other beta thread, there is no crash report. I'm running Windows 10 Build 10240 Can you zip up the whole directory and upload so I can try to reproduce here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiredframe Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Of course. Maybe it's something color profile related. Strangely enough it's working on my home PC but not on my Bootcamp Mac Mini. 1.0 (Beta).zip MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narrationsd Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Just to let you and Sean know, the 'colour profiles' and hence intensity mapping issues are gone again. Hoping you can put a test in, with the files I sent you on previous reports perhaps, so that this doesn't regress yet again. Great to see the new version, thanks. Regards, Clive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsidianDog Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 AD crashes dramatically after using the Frame Text tool with the Enable Snapping option on. Once touching a snapping point, the only thing to do is restart your computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hi, this is a known issue and will be fixed in the next beta. You don't actually need to restart the computer, you can just do End Task via the Task Manager (press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, then right-click on Designer to End Task). ObsidianDog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 9 hours ago, ObsidianDog said: AD crashes dramatically after using the Frame Text tool with the Enable Snapping option on. Once touching a snapping point, the only thing to do is restart your computer. This isn't the behaviour I experience... the Frame Text tool snaps and appears to freeze, but if I release the mouse and then change the zoom level (scrolling the mouse wheel) everything resumes. I can then resize the Frame, with snapping, and everything behaves as expected. Obviously this isn't how things should work, but try changing the zoom as it makes the beta usable until the bug is fixed. Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlainP Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 24 minutes ago, Aammppaa said: This isn't the behaviour I experience... the Frame Text tool snaps and appears to freeze, but if I release the mouse and then change the zoom level (scrolling the mouse wheel) everything resumes. I can then resize the Frame, with snapping, and everything behaves as expected. Obviously this isn't how things should work, but try changing the zoom as it makes the beta usable until the bug is fixed. I just tried your "technique" by changing the zoom level.... it does not work for me. CPU runs at 30% and the only way to stop it is by terminating AD using Task Manager. -- Window 11 - 32 gb - Intel I7 - 8700 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 -- iPad Pro 2020 - 12,9 - 256 gb - Apple Pencil 2 -- iPad 9th gen 256 gb - Apple Pencil 1 -- Macbook Air 15" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsidianDog Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 1 hour ago, AlainP said: I just tried your "technique" by changing the zoom level.... it does not work for me. CPU runs at 30% and the only way to stop it is by terminating AD using Task Manager. I cannot change the zoom level... it does not work for me too. CTRL+SHIFT+ESC (Task Manager) is my last resort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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