Staff Andy Somerfield Posted February 16, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 16, 2015 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. Documents made in this version will not be openable in older versions of Affinity Designer. This change was necessary in order to ensure a consistent baseline for our file format for the Affinity Photo Beta. When we update the Mac App Store version it will upgrade to this new archive version number too so will not be an issue in the future. Improvements, Features, Fixes - Included German, French, Spanish and US English translations - Fix for pixel brush tools not starting at the beginning of the drawn curve - Fix for problems with masks drawing incorrectly since last week’s beta - EPS export should have greater compatibility with Cinema 4D - Enabling ‘smallest size’ in the EPS export options should now significantly reduce file size - Improved Freehand import - some documents which previously reported being corrupt can now be opened - Small tweak to PSD import of text when dealing with carriage returns - Honour the orientation tag when loading images - Replaced ‘show/hide UI’ with ‘Toggle UI’ and removed ’Show All UI’ - Increase/decrease point size of text now increments in sensible units and changed shortcuts to Cmd+< and Cmd+> - Fix for moving the pen away from any attached tablets and back causing unexpected tool switching - Miscellaneous fixes for studio tabs 10on12, rui_mac and Rhuantavan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rui_mac Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 YES!!!! Cinema 4D compatibility confirmed :D MattP and Dale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Dierolf Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Still can't get more precision than 1 decimal place creating objects -> need 5.25mm and only get rounded 5.3mm. This happens if I pull handels on an object or if I change the object size in the tranform palette by hand. Only for brush strokes I get 2 decimal places but not for objects. 2 decimals places would be very good, 3 (as an option) a nice to have :) Maybe it's not a bug but then I recommend it as feature :ph34r: ronnyb and PeterB. 2 iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), i7 4.2, Radeon 580 Pro 8 GB, 40 GB DDR4-RAM, 1 TB Flash, macOS 10.14.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Dierolf Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 One more thing: If I try to rearrange colors in the swatch panel the beta crashes. If I do it in list view there is no problem and it works. iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), i7 4.2, Radeon 580 Pro 8 GB, 40 GB DDR4-RAM, 1 TB Flash, macOS 10.14.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 It seems to me that the brushes and styles are missing for draw and pixel personas...? 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...
PeterB. Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 more decimal places... i'm still hoping for them to be implemented someday. that would make my work a lot easier especially with prepress related things :D Markus Dierolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhuantavan Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 No more brush lag! Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manauri Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Excelente, la mejor herramienta ahora disponible en Español, una herramienta así se vuelve trascendental en pocos días de trabajo, me he olvidado de Adobe... // Excellent, the best tool now available in Spanih, such a tool becomes important in a few days of work, i forgot to Adobe... xcellent, the best tool now available in Spanish , such a tool becomes transcendental within a few days of work, I forgot to Adobe ... Excellent, the best tool now available in Spanish , such a tool becomes transcendental within a few days of work, I forgot to Adobe ... xcellent, the best tool now available in Spanish , such a tool becomes transcendental within a few days of work, I forgot to Adobe ... Excellent, the best tool now available in Spanish , such a tool becomes transcendental within a few days of work, I forgot to Adobe ... MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MastroPino Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Please update the version under AppStore repository, I start to use this beta version but I lost iCloud Support at all. :( :huh: :wacko: <lendrius><equipment> MacBook Pro 15" Quad-Intel 8GB Samsung PRO SSD & 22" Asus LCD from old Linux Machine </equipment><education> Degree in Science of Communication </education><employ> WebDesigner & Front End Developer </employ><passion> Bass Player </passion></lendrius> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRScott Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Thanks Andy for update. 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...
A_B_C Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Hi Andy, perhaps you should change the title of the thread: the version I downloaded is 1.1.2.22824 ... got a bit confused ... :wacko: But regardless of the name: I love it ... thanks for your work ... :) Cheers, Alex MichaelS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 18, 2015 Hi Andy, perhaps you should change the title of the thread: the version I downloaded is 1.1.2.22824 ... got a bit confused ... :wacko: But regardless of the name: I love it ... thanks for your work ... :) Cheers, Alex Done, sorry! :) A_B_C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Thanks, Matt ... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MastroPino Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Hello to all, its possible to move to a previous version of beta or I will not be able to open the file that I saved with this version? There is a bug in this beta that hurts me and my workflow (objects jump on resizing) :( Thanks :ph34r: <lendrius><equipment> MacBook Pro 15" Quad-Intel 8GB Samsung PRO SSD & 22" Asus LCD from old Linux Machine </equipment><education> Degree in Science of Communication </education><employ> WebDesigner & Front End Developer </employ><passion> Bass Player </passion></lendrius> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 20, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 20, 2015 Hi MastroPino, That bug has been there for at least a couple of betas now - and I think that if you tried to run a beta from back when the bug wasn't there, it would refuse to run now (and probably wouldn't read the files either). I will obviously try to get this resolved. Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archmind Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 My first post here! Downloaded the trial of Affinity Designer and instantly got the startup I work in get me a license. I've been looking to get out of Illustrator + Astute Graphics plugins for a long, long time now. I am a UI / UX designer so I find myself drawing icons of all kinds and sizes all the time so I gotta say - the custom shapes, pixel snapping feature + multiple views is simply a dream workflow! Yeah the app crashes here and there but hey - it's always like that with betas. I'm not even remotely frustrated with it. I am looking forward for the corner rounding feature showcased in Affinity Review. Any chance this is coming to the beta channel any time soon? I'm have to start drawing a new icon-set and I really want to start this with Affinity Designer. I'd love to give you guys more detailed feedback, where should I do that so that I don't 'pollute' the forum? MastroPino and MattP 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 20, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 20, 2015 Hi archmind! Welcome to the forums! :) Great to hear that you're enjoying Designer so far - it's still at the beginning of its journey and the feature set will become much more impressive and productive over time. Speaking of which, the Corner Tool... it's not ready yet - I'm still typing on it and trying to make it work as nicely as I'd imagined before starting it - I'm nearly there, but I'll only know it's finished when I know it's finished - so I don't want to rush and let everyone down. If you want to give more detailed feedback then you can send it straight to me - mpriestley @ seriflabs dot com Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gummer Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 "changed shortcuts to Cmd+< and Cmd+>" Yes!! - the original shortcuts are still the best. Apple reallly screwed things up when they conflated zoom shortcuts with text size. Many thanks! Clint 1 one planet, one chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I am glad they made some progress on FreeHand files but I still have several files that don't work. I sent in one of those files for testing. New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MastroPino Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 I am a UI / UX designer so I find myself drawing icons of all kinds and sizes all the time so I gotta say - the custom shapes, pixel snapping feature + multiple views is simply a dream workflow! Yeah the app crashes here and there but hey - it's always like that with betas. I'm not even remotely frustrated with it. I am looking forward for the corner rounding feature showcased in Affinity Review. Any chance this is coming to the beta channel any time soon? I'm have to start drawing a new icon-set and I really want to start this with Affinity Designer. Hi there!!!I'm a UI developer too and I hope to se your Work asap! Good luck mate! MattP 1 <lendrius><equipment> MacBook Pro 15" Quad-Intel 8GB Samsung PRO SSD & 22" Asus LCD from old Linux Machine </equipment><education> Degree in Science of Communication </education><employ> WebDesigner & Front End Developer </employ><passion> Bass Player </passion></lendrius> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8o Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Objects butted up against the document edge are sometimes drawing as if 1 pixel off: https://www.dropbox.com/s/inr8jq2jh6w02e4/Screenshot%202015-02-21%2013.55.55.png?dl=0 Zooming or panning can cause/fix this. Would love to see pixel-perfect display :P Founder & Lead Designer at Amuses Me Games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 22, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 22, 2015 Objects butted up against the document edge are sometimes drawing as if 1 pixel off: https://www.dropbox.com/s/inr8jq2jh6w02e4/Screenshot%202015-02-21%2013.55.55.png?dl=0 Zooming or panning can cause/fix this. Would love to see pixel-perfect display :P I've kind of got a rather fantastic fix for this - that should be coming at the same time as I add canvas rotation :) (the problem is because the document is positioned on a sub-pixel, but the OpenGL quads that present this to the screen can't cope with sub-pixels. Forcing the document to be positioned on whole pixels actually makes a really nasty notchy feel to panning and zooming, so I refused to do it - instead, I just needed time to figure out the best solution - which I've got working now in a test app) A_B_C and Dale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenogre Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Great ! - New option for donut (slice) - Dash line - French translation I've got a bug with interface : Stroke / Style > menu is grey when I use it several times. No more icons (none/solid/dash/brush). I must quit AD and relaunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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