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Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.58


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This thread is LOCKED there is a later beta build in a thread pinned at the top of this forum

Click here to download the latest beta for Windows

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

 

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5 minutes ago, IndigoMoon said:

unfortunately the previous version of APub doesn't indicate, that there is a new one available...

We will add it to the auto-update mechanism tomorrow. This is more of a soft launch here on the forums. Thanks for the heads up though

Patrick Connor
Serif Europe Ltd

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Hi,

Downloading and installation ran ok! On older machine - looks like loading is faster than the previous beta!!! Great job Serif Tem!!!!! More testing soon...

@kirknurse:

Go to View > Show Bleed and You'll see the bleeds. (Snapping to bleeds works fine for me)

Affinity Designer & Photo 1.6.5.123, Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.162

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thank you so much for the this update!

I will test it tomorrow.

INTEL I5 3470 | 8GB DDR3 1600MHZ | SSD EVO850 500GB | MSI 1050 TI 4GB

Windows 10 | Affinity Designer 1.7.0.209 | Affinity Photo 1.7.0.209 | Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.206

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1 hour ago, Wally_G said:

Hi,

Downloading and installation ran ok! On older machine - looks like loading is faster than the previous beta!!! Great job Serif Tem!!!!! More testing soon...

@kirknurse:

Go to View > Show Bleed and You'll see the bleeds. (Snapping to bleeds works fine for me)

Thanks but not showing up in my installation, I uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times. I will wait for the next update.

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I had a total failure updating. I will deal with it tomorrow but it toasted the original installation of Publisher in the process

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Thanks for the update. Very much a few tweaks I see. 

Studio still a sub-menu
Placing multiple images - can't undo without losing image
No way to place images as a grid
An image placed into a frame still resets back to original size when you drag the rectangle frame size. 
I'm sure there's a few others.

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14 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:

We will add it to the auto-update mechanism tomorrow. This is more of a soft launch here on the forums. Thanks for the heads up though

(blah blah blah...) We will add requested feature TOMORROW.

I love that type of cooperation ))

You ask-you get. ;-)

cheers,

AF Photo+Designer+Publisher and their betas on Win10 x64/Gtx760+AmdFX+24GB RAM

 

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The new Show bleed option in the View menu and the new "Edit all bleed values together" option in the Document Setup are working flawlessly :27_sunglasses:
Thank you guys, can't wait for the production release of Affinity Publisher !

PS: It will be super nice to have those options as well in Affinity Designer :x

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Thanks for all the hard work guys. I have installed it and have no problems so far.

iMac: iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017)  -   3.4 GHz Intel Core i5   -   8 GB 2400 MHz DDR4  -  Radeon Pro 560 4096 MB 

Windows: Nvidia GTX 960m 4k UHD 2gb ram video (Windows 10 Pro) -  Laptop screen (resolution 3840x2160 magnified 300%)

2nd Monitor: Phillips 226E9Q HD 1920 x 1080 (125%)

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Dear, 

regarding the bleed area, I initially thought that it did not show up.

Why ?

In my case, with a black background, a tiny white line shapes the external bleed rectangle. A red line would provide a better contrast, as grid lines are white as well.

But it works well, thank you

Regards, Philippe

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Dear, 

regarding the next beta version, I would suggest to add say five languages to test spelling and cursor behaviour:

- a language with accents French or German or Smnish or Nordic
- Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese to test cursor behaviour and text tools

Regards, Philippe

 

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I agree the bleed line should be thicker. Also, when using the transform panel & many others if you tab to a new box the blue line round the edge is microscopic. But the new beta overall is very good.

Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM

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Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.58 installed well, but crashed upon opening Recent and using regular Open. The message displayed is:

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Running Windows 10 Professional on a i7 PC with 16GB RAM. After this message program crashed. Same crash after restart.

Uninstalled it with WISE Uninstaller (Safe Uninstall) and re-installed previous Beta which runs without crashing.

 

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