Affinity Designer Customer Beta (1.6 - Beta 8)

[Alfred]

41 minutes ago, MattP said:

when moving dartboards around

 

[MEB]

Blame the spellchecker. It does that all the time!

[MattP]

49 minutes ago, MEB said:

Blame the spellchecker. It does that all the time!

It's blooming annoying!!!  

[Oval]

On 23. August 2017 at 4:53 PM, MattP said:

This Beta has been updated to fix a translation issue as of 2pm (BST), Thursday 24th August

 

The corrected version (1.6.0.57) still does not work for some users:

 

[MEB]

Hi Oval,

Have you tried to reset the app? Does it still display this issue after the reset?

[Oval]

On 25. August 2017 at 11:41 AM, MEB said:

Hi Oval,

Have you tried to reset the app? Does it still display this issue after the reset?

 

Of course! That’s why we tried to publish this. It is not only an issue. The app is not usable without tools etc. Users cannot reset the app (1.6.0.57) because it does not start (crashes) when pressing ctrl. The only way (besides devs know how) is to reinstall an older beta, change the language and install this corrected version 1.6.0.57 from 2 pm 43.

 

HTH

[Figmatt]

I can't save/as or export in this version?

 

Untitled.mov

 

edit: restarting fixed it, but I lost my work as for some reason the data in the clipboard could not be pasted back into the restarted app  

[MattP]

20 minutes ago, matt said:

I can't save/as or export in this version?

 

Untitled.mov

That's very odd! We're not getting that here.... Can I ask if you restart the application, make a new document and simply add a rectangle, are you able to save it then?

 

Thanks!

Matt

[MattP]

23 hours ago, bagmetv said:

Hi Matt,

 

Many thanks for new beta.

I see flickering when moving or creating (by drag) artboards.

Please have a look at screencast I have recorded:

https://we.tl/G2q30gmiiS

 

(I'm on Metal).

 

Cheers

Vitaliy

Hi Vitaliy!

 

Thanks for your document - I've now fixed the black flickering when moving artboards around in your document - it'll be in the Beta 9. Thank you again!

 

Matt

[A_B_C]

Thank you for the new node-directed operations, Matt! This is a great addition … 

 

One little question: Is there a technical reason why we cannot set the W- or H-value of the virtual bounding box to zero through the Transform panel? That would be super-handy for aligning nodes. It looks like 0 has a special status. When you snap nodes to a horizontal or vertical guide or use the dynamic snapping options, the resulting H- or W-value 0 is greyed out on the Transform panel and cannot be changed. But you cannot reach this particular value through the Transform panel.

[Bri-Toon]

Updated Wednesday? Well I guess I'm not keeping track well.

 

Is that white revealing again? Sweet!

 

7 hours ago, Alfred said:

 

Need a hug?

 

Hey Matt, I did catch a little something, but it might be part of design. When you alt click the "Combine" option of two overlapping shapes, it puts them in a compound layer, but you cannot change the color of the individual shapes; only both at once.

[Alfred]

4 minutes ago, Bri-Toon said:

When you alt click the "Combine" option of two overlapping shapes, it puts them in a compound layer, but you cannot change the color of the individual shapes; only both at once.

 

That's just what 'Combine' does, Brian: it creates a polycurve, so the resultant layer has a single fill. If you think back to your DrawPlus days, you may recall that there's a 'Break Apart' command which (sort of) reverses the effect of the 'Combine' command; Alt+Combine in Designer gives you the same flexibility, but in both cases you lose all but one of the original fills and there's no way to get them back again.

 

[Bri-Toon]

Well I've been wrong before.

 

Also, I love the new feature to rotate nodes.

 

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, Bri-Toon said:

Well I've been wrong before.

 

Yeah, me too (once or twice).

 

[abarkalo]

Just a slight cosmetic issue:  "Right out of the box" beta settings have an issue with the shortcut for hide studio settings.   I seem to not be able to assign a keyboard shortcut here - and as you can see in the image the default setting is indicating a conflict error.

[RedGunner]

Would be awfully kind of you if anyone could point out where the settings/preferences are saved for the beta versions of Designer/Photo.

[anon1]

17 minutes ago, RedGunner said:

Would be awfully kind of you if anyone could point out where the settings/preferences are saved for the beta versions of Designer/Photo.

~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner.beta/Data/Library/Application Support/user
  
~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner.beta/Data/Library/Application Support

in finder hit cmd shift g (Go to Folder) and paste 

 

just delete .beta or rename designer to photo to get the folders for the respective 

[RedGunner]

12 minutes ago, MBd said:

in finder hit cmd shift g (Go to Folder) and paste 

 

just delete .beta or rename designer to photo to get the folders for the respective 

 

I'm very grateful. Thank you.

[abarkalo]

On 8/25/2017 at 6:18 AM, MattP said:

Hi Vitaliy!

 

Thanks for your document - I've now fixed the black flickering when moving artboards around in your document - it'll be in the Beta 9. Thank you again!

 

Matt

 

Guys - happy that you identified and fixed the flickering issue in Beta 9.  Just experiencing on my end as well.  Seems to affect a document with a lot of white in it.  

[ianrobertdouglas]

Please investigate the Undo function when working within symbols. A good 70% of the time, Undo crashes AD for me. And this has been the case for pretty much since symbols emerged.

[MattP]

12 hours ago, ianrobertdouglas said:

Please investigate the Undo function when working within symbols. A good 70% of the time, Undo crashes AD for me. And this has been the case for pretty much since symbols emerged.

We need a little more information though - because I’m not seeing the same stability problems. I’m guessing it may have a lot to do with the kind of objects you use inside the symbol, or the structure of the items inside the symbol? Maybe even constraints? It would help a lot to see a sample document that gives you issues as we can look through the document in the debugger and see what’s likely to be causing the issues you see... thanks for any help you can give

[ronnyb]

On 8/25/2017 at 5:25 AM, MattP said:

It's blooming annoying!!!  

 

Autocorrect makes me say things I didn't Nintendo...

[JGD]

Guys, you have a UI bug on light mode; some of the icons in the preferences window, on the drop-down menu, are not fully visible unless you hover above them. I'm guessing you kept the positive version unchanged, and the white on white parts are, thus, rendered invisible.

 

Check it out:

[Frank Jonen]

Not sure if a bug.

Bezier tool: The right control point isn't snapping to anything. Left control point snaps to guides. Feels like a bug since both should be snapping.

Smooth or smart options. Happens with both. All snaps are on. Full Schnapps ahead!

[Frank Jonen]

BTW, I'm editing a piece of lettering with a crap font. Someone thought it's awesome to place 7 nodes seemingly on top of each other.

It'd be nice to have a counter for nodes as well. Not just items.

With Google Fonts for example the availability of really terribly made fonts has increased. Tools that help coping with that decline in outline quality would certainly be welcome.