Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.58

[AdamW]

Click here to download the latest beta for macOS

Status: Public Beta
Purpose: General Testing
Requirements: None

As this is a beta 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 where you may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. 

We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post here.

Any problems actually using this version please post to post in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Many thanks for your continued feedback.

Please post any bug reports here. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum.

Fix List

Installer
- Fixed failure to start on some systems due to font issues

Start up
- Reset Table Formats and Title Exceptions missing from Ctrl+Run on Mac

Document / Page Management
- Offer option to convert Artboard documents to Spread documents on open
- Bleed guides / visible bleed now available in the main view
- Fixed document bleed not being automatically applied to new spreads and master spreads
- Fixed bleed from masters not drawing on applied spreads
- Snapping grid now draws on current spread rather than always the first spread
- Transparent background is a document setting, not a per-spread setting
- Adding a pages to a facing page document generates the wrong page labels

General Tools and Menus
- Fixed Pop up Sliders not closing on Mac
- Fixed priority issue with Select Tool / Placement Tool
- Fixed Zoom Out causing unwanted Pan
- Fixed Gradient Tool to add stops correctly
- Added Paste FX to Layout Persona Edit Menu
- Added Geometry operations to the Customise Toolbar dialog on Mac
- Fixed applying style from Styles Panel when in list mode
- Rearranged View menu to separate guides and rulers

Text Tool
- Fixed diacritic entry via dead keys on Mac
- Drop Caps now have a 'Scale for Descenders' attribute
- Fixed Leading entry glitches on Windows
- Fixed Kerning entry glitches
- Fixed Tracking entry issue
- Fixed intermittent crash when adjusting the Fill and / or Transparency for Decorations
- Fixed spelling error highlights not updating whilst editing Text Wrap settings
- Fixed crash setting Text Wrap option on EPS images
- Text flow handles now hide when view is zoomed a lot, out to prevent view clutter

Text Style Editor
- Layout improvements
- Fixed Style description truncation in Text Style Editor on Windows

Tables
- Setting Table cell size from Table Panel not working correctly
- Fixed Keep with next lines breaking Table layout
- Table Save as Default could cause app to crash 
- Right click on table header not deleting multiple columns / rows
- Table Formats should include Frame fill, stroke and insets

Resources / Resource Manager
- Document policy for Embedding / Linking images available from File > New / Document Setup
- Better prompting when missing Linked Images encountered on Document Open
- Resource Manager now always shows resource thumbnails
- Placement sort in Resource Manager fixed
- Resource Manager columns are now resizable
- Fixed Resource Manager grid scroll issues
- Fixed Properties read out for pasted Affinity Documents

TOC
- Fixed glitch when TOC was deleted leading to incomplete removal

Print / Export
- Double sided prints always flip on longest side (partial fix)
- Fixed converting colour for PDF/X-3 export rasterising elements

 

[StuartRc]

Thank you!...that's a lot of changes..

 

[ronnyb]

Nice set of fixes!

[Dazmondo77]

YIPPPPPEEEEEEEEE! we got bleed guides MINT! 

Table row and column sizing bug swatted ACE! 

Save table format as default works without bombing TECH-HOT!

Annoying sliders left on screen DESTROYED 

Well done publisher team great work

[mac_heibu]

Fine!

Anyway: I can’t find the Geometry options in „Customize Toolbar …“ dialog.

[mehyam]

You guys do a very god work! Thank you!

[Patrick Connor]

1 minute ago, mac_heibu said:

Anyway: I can’t find the Geometry options in „Customize Toolbar …“ dialog.

Thanks this has been reported.

[SteveP110]

Sorry to say, I think this beta has more bugs than the previous version. Plus I am now getting crashes.

[Patrick Connor]

13 minutes ago, SteveP110 said:

Sorry to say, I think this beta has more bugs than the previous version. Plus I am now getting crashes.

SteceP110 please make a thread for each problem you can replicate, thank you.

[A_B_C]

Great job … thanks for bleed preview and all the fixes! 

[SillyWalk]

Thanx for update of AP. I realized that I can't switch off the Edit guide tool. It's still active and guides are unlocked.

[Seneca]

1 hour ago, Patrick Connor said:

SteceP110 please make a thread for each problem you can replicate, thank you.

Should we report again the bugs reported already or only the "fresh" ones?

[SillyWalk]

Image placement policy. I'ts great the possibility to choose which way you prefer. I'm sure that more obvious for layout's making is Linked preffered and in some rarely cases people choose embeded option. I vote for swapping those two “options“ – default Linked preffered.

[Dave Harris]

12 minutes ago, Seneca said:

Should we report again the bugs reported already or only the "fresh" ones?

Only old ones if they are listed as fixed in Adam's post.

[Joville]

I have made a table with the first version filled with data from a .txt file (all in one colum). Then put everything in the right place (three columns and 20 rows). only the last row cell wasn't displaying as it should. Was trying to remove the content from the last cell and publisher crashed. Now with todays version it doesn't crashed anymore, but it is still not in the right position.

[rgcn]

Thanks for the update!

Rob

[Patrick Connor]

@Joville

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. 

Please can you make a new thread in this forum for your bug, and attach any files needed to replicate it 

[Besli]

Thank you!!!! 

[buschbrand]

Thank you very much … I'm lookin' so much forward to erase Adobe from my harddisk!

[elgarak]

I love it when an app comes together.

Good job!

[Bri-Toon]

So after the commercial version comes out, how long do you think it will take for another award to come out? My guess is, not long.

Keep it up, guys. As someone still starting out and trying to get my stuff out there, Affinity has been a giant help for me.

[abarkalo]

I can't open up a document I created with the previous beta.  This new beta crashes every single time with that document.  

[DuctTape]

Since I update this morning @ 05:09, I've had 4 crashes with just a blank document open, setting columns and gutter. 

one thing I just don't understand is why can't I set the margin, columns, and gutter at the same time.

Mac OSX 10.13.6 (17G65)

I've added all 4 crash reports and will wait to download the beta at a later time.

 

AffinityPublisher-Crash-01.rtf

AffinityPublisher-Crash-02.rtf

AffinityPublisher-Crash-03.rtf

AffinityPublisher-Crash-04.rtf

Edited September 7, 2018 by DuctTape
added crash reports

[Demeisen]

3 hours ago, abarkalo said:

I can't open up a document I created with the previous beta.  This new beta crashes every single time with that document.  

Yep, same here. CTD on my 2017 MacBook Pro as soon as I open a document created in the previous Beta. I can copy and paste assets from Affinity Designer into Publisher with no ill effects though.

[Patrick Connor]

3 hours ago, abarkalo said:

I can't open up a document I created with the previous beta.  This new beta crashes every single time with that document.  

and

8 minutes ago, Demeisen said:

Yep, same here. CTD on my 2017 MacBook Pro as soon as I open a document created in the previous Beta. I can copy and paste assets from Affinity Designer into Publisher with no ill effects though.

Please can you make a new thread in this forum for your problem, and attach the file needed to replicate it . (if you want tag @patrick connor to get my attention )