Staff AdamW Posted March 8, 2019 Staff Posted March 8, 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 257 is now available as a manual download from the link above and on auto-update. 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. --- Arrowheads! We have Arrowheads for Line Styles from Designer. The best place to report any issues is probably the Designer Beta Forum. Assets We have removed the placeholder Assets from Publisher. Publisher will release with an empty Asset Panel. Other Improvements and Fixes Main Frame UI No more duplicate empty panels (!) Option for large thumbnails in Layers Panel. Layer colour tagging added Column guide default options are now saved Adding content with linked images to Assets will switch them to be embedded Reintroduced Rotate View on context menus Added command entry on Text Styles combos to create a new style (Mac) Fixed overlay issue when entering font name into Text context toolbar font control (Mac) Fixed crash using arrow keys in Pages Navigator on High Sierra and earlier (Mac) Toggle Unicode shortcut is listed only under Text Menu (Mac) Find and Replace panel icons missing from Panel on El Capitan and earlier (Mac) Line Break shortcut is <Shift>-<Enter> Pages / Master Pages No longer draw guides from hidden masters Fixed scroll into view in Pages panel Fixed crash when pasting a Master into itself Fixed crash moving items in Z-order having done detached edits Text Fixed application of Text Wrap borders (!) Placing text with a frame selected now populates the frame and replaces the current content Fix for positioning of path text Formatting a specific text selection no longer updates text defaults. Formatting at the insertion point still does Text tool selection improvements. <Alt>-<Click> forces select in front / behind Long / nested style names in the Text Style panel are now displayed with elllipsis if necessary rather than shrinking Fixed crash reading text attributes near Drop Caps Fix for Character Variants for some fonts failing to show up in Typography panel Fix for erroneous spell check warnings when languages switch within text Paragraph Leading control not using localised decimal separator OpenType - Accept newer versions of GSUB / GPOS tables. Used by e.g. Bahnschrift (Mac) Fixed underline position for e.g. Univers Ultracondensed (Win) Fixed issues with the Paragraph Decoration dashed stroke UI Tables <Ctrl>-A / <Cmd>-A now selects all text in a cell rather than all cells in text context Fixes for Table Tool when Table is nested inside layers etc Fixed issue setting Table Cell insets (Mac) Fixed glitch changing Table Format names Find and Replace Replaced character escapes in Find results with 'User Description' glyphs RegEx fix for Find with trailing '\b', '\>' not highlighting results and Replace not working RegEx fix for Replace All for empty search ranges RegEx fix for lookaround (?=regex) etc Hyperlinks File based Hyperlinks now have an option to copy the linked file to the output folder Insert Anchor fails on text frames promoted from Master Page Add Interactive > Insert Hyperlink to customisable keyboard shortcuts Import / Export / Print PDF Import - Fix for layers not importing PDF Import - Improved detection of redundant clips PDF Export - Use document colour space for transparency blending Export - Fixed issue rendering image nodes with transparent regions with fills applied on raster export Export - 'Pages' entry box isn't always enabled correctly (Win) Fix for CMYK Printer Profiles not showing in Print dialog (Win) Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects Index Sort index entries by page number --- Earlier Release Notes Beta 249 bagmetv, JGD, Ashcraaft and 11 others 7 7
mac_heibu Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 Thank you @AdamW! You and your team deserve a nice weekend! Richs, AdamW, Mark Oehlschlager and 1 other 4
Richs Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 1 hour ago, AdamW said: Column guide default options are now saved Thank you for this!
000 Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 1 hour ago, AdamW said: Fixed application of Text Wrap borders (!) THANK YOU! cubesquareredux 1
Staff AdamW Posted March 8, 2019 Author Staff Posted March 8, 2019 3 minutes ago, Jens Krebs said: THANK YOU! Text Wrap Borders - You're welcome. Sorry it slipped out in the first place. cubesquareredux 1
000 Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 No worries, it's a beta and if there weren't any hiccups, something with the beta concept didn't work properly ... just happy you found the issue and fixed it. Oval 1
FriD Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 Thanks to the Affinity Team! I am in the first beta version since! Version 1.7.0.257 is almost perfect for me.Excellent!Frid73 years cubesquareredux 1
fde101 Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 2 hours ago, AdamW said: We have removed the placeholder Assets from Designer. Publisher will release with an empty Asset Panel. In that case you actually removed the assets from Publisher. Wondering why the two programs couldn't share a common asset library so that creating assets in Designer would automatically make them available in Publisher? ronnyb and Uncle Mez 2
Staff AdamW Posted March 8, 2019 Author Staff Posted March 8, 2019 28 minutes ago, fde101 said: In that case you actually removed the assets from Publisher. Whoops, thank you. 28 minutes ago, fde101 said: Wondering why the two programs couldn't share a common asset library so that creating assets in Designer would automatically make them available in Publisher? Hopefully one day they will, but not currently unfortunately. fde101 and Uncle Mez 1 1
Meztli Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 Hyperlinks still not working when created on master pages (I reported this bug already) Maybe on the next update
Seneca Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 5 hours ago, AdamW said: Added command entry on Text Styles combos to create a new style ? 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
Staff AdamW Posted March 8, 2019 Author Staff Posted March 8, 2019 Hi Seneca, You can quickly create a new Text Style by using a new entry on the Character Style and Paragraph Style dropdowns on the Text Tool Context Bar labelled 'New Style...". JGD and hawk 2
Seneca Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 12 minutes ago, AdamW said: You can quickly create a new Text Style by using a new entry on the Character Style and Paragraph Style dropdowns on the Text Tool Context Bar labelled 'New Style...". I see, that's useful, 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
SillyWalk Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 Thank You! Cheers guys! iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74)
project_2501 Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 still waiting for reflowing embedded content like images .... it's really critical for any DTP workflow .. I know Affinity say it's on the to-do list but it should be a higher priority than some of the things on that changeling list ... let's put it plainly - DTP is not Designer with Pages - it's for working with documents of many pages .. changes to layout, styles, margins, boxes, .. will cause text to move .. and you want anchored content like diagrams to also move intelligently .. you don't want to do that manually for documents of more than 5 pages. that is pretty core. cubesquareredux 1
hawk Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 1 hour ago, tariq said: still waiting for reflowing embedded content like images .... I know Affinity say it's on the to-do list It's not just 'on the todo list' anymore, it's being worked on. 1 hour ago, tariq said: it should be a higher priority than some of the things on that changeling list ... It's not just one person developing Affinity, and those things probably didn't take much time. ♥️Affinity v2; macOS 14; ⌨️🖱; recreational user since 2014.
BigBadD Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 Thanks Affinity team, the pace of beta updates is impressive and appreciated. What is vision for a final stable paid release?
fde101 Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 1 hour ago, BigBadD said: What is vision for a final stable paid release? There are numerous threads about this all over the forum. Short answer: that there will eventually be a stable, paid release. Use of the term "final" is questionable as it suggests that development has stopped, where this is just getting started.
Uncle Mez Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 On 3/8/2019 at 11:06 AM, AdamW said: Assets We have removed the placeholder Assets from Publisher. Publisher will release with an empty Asset Panel. Hello @AdamW i'm having few problems with the assets studio on Publisher. After i've loaded my assets i use with Designer and Photo the different categories does Fold but cannot unFold no matter how many click i do. Will send you the afassets files in private so you can check if the problem is with the these files (created with 1.6) or with Publisher itself in this new version. Blessings 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
occasionalpiece Posted March 9, 2019 Posted March 9, 2019 Arrowheads! We have Arrowheads for Line Styles from Designer. The best place to report any issues is probably the Designer Beta Forum. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'M IN LOVE!!! Thank you for arrows. So far, they are fantastic!! On a more serious note, download went well: all my files opened just fine with this update, and things seem to be working smoothly.
Uncle Mez Posted March 10, 2019 Posted March 10, 2019 Please @AdamW i see that Publisher doesn't display its default icon on saved projects displayed located in the "Open Recent" menu. I've attached a screenshot of what i see on my side just i have darkened projects name but left two basic ones so you can see. Maybe it was forgotten until now because it is something small compared to the massive job the team have to achieve but to me it makes things so unfinished ... if you see ! Blessings 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
Staff Patrick Connor Posted March 10, 2019 Staff Posted March 10, 2019 12 hours ago, Uncle Mez said: After i've loaded my assets i use with Designer and Photo the different categories does Fold but cannot unFold no matter how many click i do This is generically true in our Mac 1.7.0 desktop builds at the moment, so no need for a file thanks. Uncle Mez 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
Jeremy Bohn Posted March 11, 2019 Posted March 11, 2019 Just discovered this with the new beta... if I close an unsaved document, I'm prompted to save, so I click Save, and the document doesn't close. If I close a saved document, there is no problem. macOS Mojave.
rjvela82 Posted March 12, 2019 Posted March 12, 2019 We're in the home stretch. I can feel it.... occasionalpiece 1
Jeremy Bohn Posted March 12, 2019 Posted March 12, 2019 31 minutes ago, >|< said: All the Affinity apps for macOS have annoyed me with that for the past 18 months. Interesting. I guess i just never encountered it until now. Have you made a thread about it? If not, I will.
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