Staff MattP Posted March 3, 2015 Staff Share Posted March 3, 2015 Purpose: Improvements, Features, Fixes Status: Release Candidate Requirements: Purchased Affinity Designer Mac App Store: Not submitted Download: https://s3.amazonaws...stomer Beta.dmg We intend to update the currently available Mac App Store product in the near future and will produce the binary for this from the current beta. We feel that we have added a great many new features and bug fixes and would like to get these into the hands of the majority of our customers. We are aware that not every bug has been fixed but we have to commit to updating the App Store version as long as we are not introducing any regressions in functionality or usability. For now, our focus must be on making sure the features included in this release candidate build are as stable and robust as possible, so we will not be adding any new features until we have released this version. We would appreciate it greatly if you are able to spend some time looking at this release candidate version and thoroughly testing it, letting us know any issues that you are having with it so we can prioritise our time to tend to as much as possible. 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 - Improved Corner Tool UI, plus miscellaneous bug fixes - Improved Ctrl+Option drag-resizing in the brush tools - View Tool and Zoom Tool double-click behaviours added (zoom to fit and zoom to 100%, respectively) - Introduced top-level ‘Text’ menu item, which replaces the old ‘Format’ menu and removed vector-related operations from the menus in Pixel Persona - Added the ability to Save/Revert document defaults - Fix for ‘None’, ‘Black’ and ‘White’ fill not working on the swatches page in the fill flyout - PDF import now supports multitone bitmaps with an arbitrary number of channels - Floating studio panels now have a close button - Increased contrast of the view tab’s close button when multiple documents are open - Performance improvements for Path Text - Paragraph Leading is now available on the text context toolbar - Fix for moving objects after nudging them causing the wrong results - Starting to fix localised strings not fitting in some panels - still more to do… - Improved Freehand import - Fix for SVG export not correctly exporting simple lines - Fix for vector export - Fix for changing presets in Document Setup not correctly setting DPI and retina checkbox - Fix for some adjustments going wrong in CMYK - Miscellaneous other fixes and improvements 000, helga231, MastroPino and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celliott80 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Not the worst bug you can find, but I noticed that Contrast is spelled wrong (has an S after the N) in the Adjustments menu in both Designer and Photo. It says "Brightness and Constrast" KipV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I can sort of get my FreeHand files to open now. It used to be that nothing would open but now a blank document will open with all the illustration elements visible in the layers panel. New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Thanks for another beta. I've noticed strange bounding boxes of shapes created by the following tools: Polygon, Star, Double Star and Square Star. When you start playing with these shapes, say using the corner tool, the bounding boxes snap to correct sizes. 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...
Leafdancing Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Have had a few crashes with the Corner Tool with different shapes ( once it crashed Mail too ). Also, downloaded the beta from the link above but is prompting me to download a new beta every time I open this AD beta. ( latest version Yosemite and late 2013 MacBook 16 GB Ram ) Apart from that seems fine. Thanks for continued hard work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nes61 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Thanks for new beta. First of all I love this program, the same class as Xara for me. Anyway here is a bug (I think): Trace something with the pencil tool, then Art text tool... select insert filler text and... program freeze. Don't know if a legal choice but if not I think a message is better than a freeze :P and.... sorry for my english :mellow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 3, 2015 Staff Share Posted March 3, 2015 Hi nes61, Welcome to Affinity Forums:) Thanks for reporting this. Issue logged to be looked at. The Insert Filler Text command shouldn't be available for the Art Text tool when clicking over a path (text-to-path function). A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nes61 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 As the thing remain on this release I report it : When creating a new document choosing web type, the DPI is always 300. For me it's more logical if it will be 96 DPI as when we change the type. Hope to be clear enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 3, 2015 Staff Share Posted March 3, 2015 nes61, I'm aware of that one. This only happens immediately after creating a new document. If you go to the top drop down and choose Web (even when it is already displaying it) it corrects the DPI to 96. Still we can fix this glitch. Thanks for reporting. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
it-ony Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Great. I just realized, that if I download the beta this version is localized (german), but the version from the app store is only in english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 3, 2015 Staff Share Posted March 3, 2015 it-ony, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) The Mac App Store version will be updated soon and will include additional languages. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deegravy Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Will you eventually add the option to copy and create a new document to fit the dimensions of the clipboard item? This is something I desperately need. Thank You! A_B_C and Busenitz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelS Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 The subtract bug I reported a while ago is still in this version. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/5787-possible-subtract-bug/ Is it possible to fix before releasing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajitam Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Exporting PDF still doesn't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Dierolf Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Exporting PDF still doesn't work For me PDF export works quite well :) No problems here. 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 March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 The EPS import color bug still exists: Make a new doc, draw a box with color 100M 100Y 15K (or any other) and export it as PDF and EPS. Open the files in AD - the PDF displays the correct color but EPS something at 3C 96M 81Y 11K. I think this should be fixed for the RC. 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...
alsarraf Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 When we will see "Pages and Art-boards" feature ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted March 4, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted March 4, 2015 We have to release one update at a time - pages and artboards are coming, but not this time. The differences between the current Mac App Store version and this updated version are huge A_B_C and KipV 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Hi Matt, unfortunately the bug I detailed here https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4109-running-through-the-font-list-with-cursor-keys/ is still there in the present version (RC1). I know you have to prioritise things and it definitely is a (minor, but somewhat annoying) OS X Lion bug, but nevertheless I wanted to remind you ... ;) Just for your information, my screen shots in the post mentioned above are from the German version, but the bug can be found in the English version too ... Cheers, Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Just tried to remember the other bugs we found as well ... although the Scale with object option has improved, this one seems to be still there: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4274-join-nodes/ Made a new screen cast using the latest version (RC1) ... but of course I don’t know if it is related to the Scale with object option at all ... but I am able to reproduce it regularly when using this option ... :unsure: Cheers, Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I've noticed strange bounding boxes of shapes created by the following tools: Polygon, Star, Double Star and Square Star. When you start playing with these shapes, say using the corner tool, the bounding boxes snap to correct sizes. They aren't really bounding boxes; they're frames that the shape fits to. It doesn't use the whole frame, depending on the exact shape. If it was scaled so that it did use the whole frame, then changing the number of points, or other geometry, would resize the shape in a surprising way. So this is working as designed. Using the Corner tool converts them into curves, and curves don't have frames in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshTeriyaki Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 The arrow key capture still doesn't work in the font size input Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted March 4, 2015 Author Staff Share Posted March 4, 2015 Just tried to remember the other bugs we found as well ... although the Scale with object option has improved, this one seems to be still there: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4274-join-nodes/ Made a new screen cast using the latest version (RC1) ... but of course I don’t know if it is related to the Scale with object option at all ... but I am able to reproduce it regularly when using this option ... :unsure: Cheers, Alex Hmmm, that's weird - I'm sure I can fix the join nodes thing very easily - will get to it! Thanks for giving me a heads-up on the fonts thing too - I've had a chat with Andy Tang and he's currently firing up his Lion machine to take a look :) A_B_C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeay23 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 EXporting to pdf with effect still has error. The edges becomes rasterized instead of sharp edges when having effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andrew Tang Posted March 4, 2015 Staff Share Posted March 4, 2015 Hi Matt, unfortunately the bug I detailed here https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4109-running-through-the-font-list-with-cursor-keys/ is still there in the present version (RC1). I know you have to prioritise things and it definitely is a (minor, but somewhat annoying) OS X Lion bug, but nevertheless I wanted to remind you ... ;) Just for your information, my screen shots in the post mentioned above are from the German version, but the bug can be found in the English version too ... Cheers, Alex Hi A_B_C, do you still get the issues with duplicate fonts in the Character panel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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