Affinity Publisher Public Beta - 1.7.0.330 (Withdrawn)

[AdamW 795]

Due to an issue discovered with the management of placed documents e.g here, here and the fact that document corruption can occur, we have chosen to remove the download links to Build 330. We will post another update to rectify this issue as soon as possible.

If you have already downloaded 330 you may wish to consider reverting to Build 312, but be aware that due to new functionality in the later build, documents saved in 330 may not load in 312.

Thank you for helping us find this issue.

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Please note Build 330 fixes the following issues in Build 326. Build 326 has been withdrawn and we encourage you to update if you are using it.

- Converting an Embedded resource to Linked could delete the original resource
- Replacing Image on a placed PDF could leave Resource Manager in an inconsistent state
- Crash copying and pasting embedded document resources

Thank you for reporting these.

Status: Public Beta

Purpose: Stability and General Testing
Requirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10  (>=1607)

We are pleased to announce Affinity Publisher build 330 is now available as a manual download from the link above. To be notified when there is a new beta please press follow on this announcement thread

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.

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Fixes and Improvements 

A Note about Linked Images

Backing data and hi-res previews are now discarded for linked images when the containing document is saved, resulting in a drop in Publication file size. Please note that unfortunately this will not apply for linked images in existing documents, they will have to be replaced in order to see an effect. When a document with linked images is opened you may now momentarily see a low-res preview before the full image is loaded and 'pops in'. This is expected behaviour.

Other Fixes

Menus / Studio
(Win) Docking Pinning Panel to the left/right causes crash on next run up
Deleting global colours could cause crash
(Mac) OS accented colour set to Graphite now works correctly for font controls etc
Fixes for Expression Parser

Tools
Fixed selection of Picture Frames from Masters
Vector cropped object in Picture Frame now scales correctly

Text / Tables
Fixed noticeable text lag under some circumstances with Character Panel visible
Fixed auto-correct crash e.g. typing (a)
(MacOS) Ctrl+Alt+Tab in a table inserts a tab and switches document
Prevented deletion of entire cell range with non contiguous selection
On converting a shape to a text frame the context toolbar now shows the correct text tools
Fix for Find / Replace All when found ranges were adjacent

Resources
Improved locating missing resources on file load
Fix for Resource Manager incorrectly reporting resources as modified under some circumstances
DocX improvements - fixes for lists, colours and paragraph run properties

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Earlier Release Notes Beta 312

[Rick G 282]

When updating, "setup failed:

[walt.farrell 1,149]

1 hour ago, Rick G said:

When updating, "setup failed:

Have you tried the usual (reboot, run as administrator, ...)?

[MickRose 95]

It looks like the vertical guide ruler issue is fixed when the origin is moved on multipage documents. Thanks.

[Mithferion 582]

I had no problem installing this Beta version.

Best regards!

[Patrick Connor 2,339]

@Rick G

, if you have got it installed yet, please replace it with 330

 

[Patrick Connor 2,339]

@walt.farrell , @Mithferion, @MickRose

@Arun Sarkar, @Uwe367, @Ken Cope @Aammppaa, @adirusf, @Joachim_L, @StuartRc

Build 326 initially released in this thread has been withdrawn

Please download the replacement build 330 from the link above

[Uwe367 70]

I also had no Problems to install Version .326 but thanks for the hint @Patrick Connor
 Will download and install the new Beta tomorrow

[Mithferion 582]

20 hours ago, Patrick Connor said:

@walt.farrell , @Mithferion, @MickRose

@Arun Sarkar, @Uwe367, @Ken Cope @Aammppaa, @adirusf, @Joachim_L, @StuartRc

Build 326 initially released in this thread has been withdrawn

Please download the replacement build 330 from the link above

This version installed without a problem as well.

Best regards!

[Uwe367 70]

Installation was working well and without any Problems and the software works as expected.

[AdamW 795]

This build has been superseded by Build 337 and this thread is now locked.