Staff AdamW Posted January 18, 2019 Staff Posted January 18, 2019 Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: Mac OS 10.9 or above Hi, We are pleased to announce that Affinity Publisher build 221 is now available as a manual download from the link above. All being well we will put it on auto-update early next week. 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 product, and as always, if you've got any problems installing or running up, please don't hesitate to post in this thread. Any problems actually using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum. Many thanks for your continued feedback. --- Updates and Fixes Master Pages Due to the changes in Master Page functionality in this build we strongly suggest you backup any documents that are valuable to you before testing. It is now possible to edit the content of Master Page Text Frames and Picture Frames directly from a spread the master is applied to. By default, on editing, the content attribute for the item in question is automatically unlinked, but the other attributes and geometry remain locked. It is also possible to entirely lock the Master Page instance if desired, to prevent unintended content edits. Finally options are available to edit all attributes of Master Page items linked - the Master Page and any other pages it is applied to will be updated - or to edit all attributes unlinked - only the copy on the current spread will be updated. In both of these cases an information bar is displayed while the editing ‘mode’ is active. Text flow between frames on masters is honoured when the master is applied and it is possible to create text flow between frames that have come from masters. When auto-flowing text from a frame that comes from a master the text auto-flow will use the matching frame on subsequent pages that have the same master applied or insert new pages with the same master. Note that the previous default behaviour was to edit all attributes for all master items linked, but also to lock the Master Page instance in the layers panel. If dealing with an old document and the new functionality is desired the instance will need to be unlocked or the Master reapplied. Link to master page tutorial / video here Amalgamated Text > Insert Text from File and File > Place - Text > Insert Text from File has been removed and File > Place should be used instead. The types of files available via File > Place depends on context, for example if a Text Frame is selected then text files will be made available. Performance (Win) Fix for system mis-reporting RAM on some systems leading to poor performance. - If 'RAM Usage Limit' in Preferences > Performance is set to 1024MB you may be experiencing this issue. If so please set the limit manually to a higher value (typically the amount of Physical RAM installed) or Ctrl-Run Up to reset settings. Menus and Studio (Mac) Fixed the spurious black tiles issue when switching between multiple documents (Win) Fix for redraw issues when dragging document windows between monitors on some monitor setups (Win) Fixed Show Bleed failing to work under some circumstances Fixed min / max size issue for some panels Added Tooltips to Page Navigation controls (Mac) Fixed Colour Panel tabbing issues (Mac) Fix for Pasting control characters into Find and Replace fields. (Win) Fix for Find and Replace fields not being cleared when starting a new document (Mac) Paragraph / Character Panels now always show scrollbars if necessary (Win) Fix for Min / Max / Defaults in Paragraph Panel Justification settings (Win) Fix for crash trying to insert a Text Field without a text frame selected (Mac) Fixed Text Wrapping Dialog tab order Section Page Count is actually Section 'Last Page' Added 'Run Last Page' to Fields Panel Added Next and Previous Frame page numbers to Fields Panel (Win) Tools toolbar leaves monitor viewport when undocking on some monitor set ups (Win) Document Zoom Level is changed to 'Fit' when a Symbol / Asset etc is dragged out (Win) Fixed drag drop from Explorer to floating Document windows Fix for Paste Inside being disabled with multiple objects selected Section Manager selection fixes Tools and View Fix for Text Frame Baseline Grids drawing incorrectly (Win) Fixed issue setting CMYK colours for Guides (Mac) Fix for incorrect Ruler Origin on spreads other than first Text and Tables Tables and Text frames can now individually be set to ignore baseline grid Added support for language dependent smart quotes Allow for space above at tops of columns in more places. Fixes issues with Art Text No longer apply initial words formatting automatically to text generated by lists Fix for effect of next paragraph style on character formatting not being undone correctly Fix crash justifying narrow text Page Number glyphs are now shown as placeholders on master pages When creating a TOC reuse an unused style if there is one Fixed Hyphenation to exclude nulls from hyphenation strings because they confuse length rules (Mac) Fixed failure to ever set Restart Numbering 'Now' in Text Style Editor (Win) Fixed issue with Arial Black being incorrectly reported as missing Fix for Edit Text Style controls not updating when Font Family changed Fixed issue changing Table insets after scaling Fixed issue scrolling through the Font List if fonts with long names present Resizing text frame no longer causes issues with cursor position on the text ruler Fix for punctuation stopping 'Capitalise first word of sentence' from working Import / Export and Printing Fix for some EPS imports being incorrectly translated Document fields such as 'Author' and 'Subject' are now exported to PDF (Win) Fix for some stroke widths being printed incorrectly on rotated objects (Win) Fix for flipped text printing --- Earlier Release Notes Beta 206 mkaneshiro, osang, 000 and 9 others 5 7
Seneca Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 Thanks!!! 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
000 Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 Hurray to the master text frames! You're the bestest! ❤️❤️❤️ I'll download later, read the long description again and start playing.
elgarak Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 Good job! Was looking for the master pages ... off to testing...
Old Bruce Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 Great news about the Master Page's Text Frames. Now I just have to unlearn all the oddball workarounds I have developed. Patrick Connor 1 Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Staff Patrick Connor Posted January 18, 2019 Staff Posted January 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Great news about the Master Page's Text Frames. Now I just have to unlearn all the oddball workarounds I have developed. sorry 'bout that mac_heibu 1 Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon
J.L. Forrest Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 Crashes when I select a line of text, hold down the shift key, and press an up or down arrow to select more lines of text. MacBook running OS 10.14.2
Old Bruce Posted January 18, 2019 Posted January 18, 2019 7 minutes ago, J.L. Forrest said: Crashes when I select a line of text, hold down the shift key, and press an up or down arrow to select more lines of text. MacBook running OS 10.14.2 Please start a new Bug topic, this won't be seen here as easily as a new topic would. Patrick Connor 1 Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Uncle Mez Posted January 19, 2019 Posted January 19, 2019 Thank you so much @AdamW Never be the Same Again ! ---Dell Optiplex 5090 SFFIntel Core i5-10500T @2.30GHz with 12GiB 2666MHz DDR4Intel UHD Graphics 630 for 10th Generation M.2 2280, 512 GB, PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4, Class 40 SSDWindows 11 Pro x64 22H2 + LibreOffice 7.5.3
moot Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 Hello I am new here. :) I always get this dialog when I try this version "Affinity-Publisher-Beta-1.7.0.221.dmg". Anyone please suggest? Thanks :)
fde101 Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 9 hours ago, moot said: I always get this dialog when I try this version "Affinity-Publisher-Beta-1.7.0.221.dmg". Anyone please suggest? Thanks Is the date set correctly on your computer? There was at least one report of someone seeing this issue when they had the computer set to use a Japanese calendar...
SillyWalk Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 Thank you guys! iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74)
v_kyr Posted January 22, 2019 Posted January 22, 2019 ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
fde101 Posted January 22, 2019 Posted January 22, 2019 That suggests they haven't updated the self-update feature yet. You will need to download it from the link at the top of this thread in the meantime.
Staff AdamW Posted January 22, 2019 Author Staff Posted January 22, 2019 Hi, A couple of things - I've added a link to a master page tutorial / video to the announcement post at the top of this thread. Due to a couple of issues reported in build 221 we may skip putting it on auto-update and instead push out another update with fixes in the next couple of days. Thank you for all your help and feedback. MartinHH, Patrick Connor and Wosven 1 2
v_kyr Posted January 22, 2019 Posted January 22, 2019 Nah I can wait, no hectic. I prefer the update feature and less download sizes here! ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
cubesquareredux Posted January 23, 2019 Posted January 23, 2019 10 hours ago, AdamW said: I've added a link to a master page tutorial / video to the announcement post at the top of this thread. Due to a couple of issues reported in build 221 we may skip putting it on auto-update and instead push out another update with fixes in the next couple of days. Thank you, thank you, and thank you once again! Using macOS 10.13.6 and Publisher 1.9.3
Nana Posted January 24, 2019 Posted January 24, 2019 On 1/23/2019 at 6:11 AM, AdamW said: Hi, A couple of things - I've added a link to a master page tutorial / video to the announcement post at the top of this thread. Due to a couple of issues reported in build 221 we may skip putting it on auto-update and instead push out another update with fixes in the next couple of days. Thank you for all your help and feedback. Hi Adam, Thank you so much for this video. It really explains the new Master Page feature in the latest public beta. I have one question though. Once you detach a Spread frame from the Master Page, edit the text frame or other items on the spread and you click finish, does it then re-attach to the Master Page? On other words, is the detach feature a one-way progress? Any further explanation would be greatly appreciated. Nana
Staff AdamW Posted January 24, 2019 Author Staff Posted January 24, 2019 This build has been superseded by Build 227 and this thread is now locked.
Staff AdamW Posted January 24, 2019 Author Staff Posted January 24, 2019 Well not quite locked Hi Nana, That's correct, it is not possible to relink detached attributes of unlinked master page items. You would have to re-apply the master page. Feel free to make a suggestion in the suggestions forum if you feel that is a significant limitation. fde101 1
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