Staff AdamW Posted March 8, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 8, 2019 Status: Public Beta Purpose: Stability and General Testing Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10 (>=1607) Hi, We are pleased to announce 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. .NET 4.7.2 (Windows) Due to a compiler update we now have a dependency on .NET 4.7.2. The installer has been updated to install this version of the framework. This means that the system requirements have changed slightly and we will no longer install on Windows 8.0 (!) or early unpatched versions (< 1607) of Windows 10. 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 adirusf, Jon P, Wosven and 7 others 5 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 16 minutes ago, Arun Sarkar said: So I can't install it on Win 8.1 any more? It is supported on 8.1 as far as I found on the web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 16 minutes ago, MikeW said: It is supported on 8.1 as far as I found on the web. Was that for this beta, or for 1.6? -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Was that for this beta, or for 1.6? Beta. This is a beta thread. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4054566/microsoft-net-framework-4-7-2-for-windows-8-1-windows-rt-8-1-and-windo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 11 minutes ago, MikeW said: Beta. This is a beta thread. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4054566/microsoft-net-framework-4-7-2-for-windows-8-1-windows-rt-8-1-and-windo Thanks. My confusion was what you meant by "it" is supported. I though you meant Affinity, not .net 4.7.2. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted March 8, 2019 Author Staff Share Posted March 8, 2019 5 hours ago, Arun Sarkar said: So I can't install it on Win 8.1 any more? Yes, apologies. Win 8.1 should be fine. I've updated the notice for clarity. Martigny 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacho Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 HI, im trying to install version 2579 and says win7 sp1 or later not found, these are the screenshots: This is my win10 version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted March 11, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 11, 2019 Pacho, Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums 6 hours ago, Pacho said: This is my win10 version From the opening post in this thread... On 3/8/2019 at 10:18 AM, AdamW said: .NET 4.7.2 (Windows) Due to a compiler update we now have a dependency on .NET 4.7.2. The installer has been updated to install this version of the framework. This means that the system requirements have changed slightly and we will no longer install on Windows 8.0 (!) or early unpatched versions (< 1607) of Windows 10. So the error message (new to this build) is insufficient in that it doesn't mention Windows 10, but the reason for the failure is that you cannot install Affinity Windows 1.7 software on your unpatched Windows 10. You need to install Windows updates before the software will install. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted March 12, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 12, 2019 @Pacho, This is a combination of 3 things. The latest installer has changed the system requirements, and the English installer says that "Your version of Windows does not meet system requirements "(and not the string you are seeing). The localisation of the new English string has not yet caught up, so you are ssing an outdated Windows 7.1 string The link at the bottom of that dialog points to the Windows Installer FAQ, which currently reflects the requirements purchased version (1.6.x) and when 1.7 is sold will be updated to mention the versions of Windows 10 that are additionally required. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 when attempting to update my beta to .2579 - i cant install. I just get the message "setup failed". 4.7.2 .net is installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 update install failed. I've found a work around and possible issue. here is what I tried and it did not fix my issue. 1) Moved the installer to the same drive. 2) I am fully updated 3) no other .net frameworks 4) ran as admin 5) restarted computer next I tried to check the log files for the install - but the folder 'Publisher Public Beta' was inaccessible. Said I didnt have the right permissions - however I was in powershell as Admin and the folder's size was 0. I re-ran the install and changed the folder name for the installation to 'Publisher Public Beta 2' .. and it worked. Patrick Connor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted March 22, 2019 Author Staff Share Posted March 22, 2019 This build has been superseded by Build 270 and this thread is now locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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