Staff AdamW Posted May 31, 2019 Staff Share Posted May 31, 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 371 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. --- New Features / Improvements Drag & Drop of story text within document. Drag / drop of inline pinned nodes. Added option to "Apply Paragraph Style and Clear Character Styles" to text styles. Added option to "Reapply Base Styles" to Text menus. Added menu option to delete unused text styles. Added align 'Towards Spine' and 'Away From Spine'. Fixes Main Window / Studio Fix for page thumbnails not updating when linked images are loaded Fixed crash duplicating page when something is selected on a master page (Win) New documents open into the current view group. (e.g. Floating). (Mac) Fixed swatch palettes for non-English UI languages Tools Fix for inability to change the font when using the Text tool before creating the text Fix for Text frame ruler not honouring offsets Fixed table resizing issues Added 'Edit Image' for linked raster images Import File > Place still lets you place an image with text frame selected Fixed possible hang with File > Place if location ceases to exist Added access to Font Manager from Missing Fonts notification message More DocX fixes, including Section Breaks, WMF / EMF, Table improvements RTF Import - Non-English language improvements Fixed crash linking multiple embedded resources in Resource Manager Text Fix bug that could cause failure to draw line from floating node to pin Pinned nodes now positioned correctly in vertically aligned text Update pins when node crop changes Fixed Vertical alignment in text frame with baseline grid Paragraph decorations no longer skip empty lines No longer suppress underlines on trailing tabs (e.g. so they can be used to draw forms) Fix for Text Content Toolbar not correctly reporting colour Auto-correct fixes Tables Ctrl-Click multiple table cells now works Export (Mac) Fix for PDF Export UI Fixed error in size of Export bitmaps when exporting with bleed PDF Export - Avoid failure filling zero-sized shapes PDF Export - Overprint handling tweak PDF Export - Explicit option to control whether images are converted to destination colour space RTF Export - Non-English language improvements --- Earlier Release Notes Beta 337 Martigny, postmadesign, A_B_C and 5 others 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Will you be supporting .DOC import as well. I know its a legacy format, but it would be useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted May 31, 2019 Author Staff Share Posted May 31, 2019 7 minutes ago, postmadesign said: Will you be supporting .DOC import as well. I know its a legacy format, but it would be useful. Sorry, very unlikely. postmadesign 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seneca Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 31 minutes ago, AdamW said: Added align 'Towards Spine' and 'Away From Spine'. You're immense. Mark Oehlschlager, jmwellborn and Patrick Connor 3 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 1 hour ago, AdamW said: Added menu option to delete unused text styles. Good one, thanks. jmwellborn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Based on the fact that the Photo beta is now listed as "gold master" and this is not (and is still getting new features), am I correct in guessing that the official release of Publisher is not happening at the same time as Photo and Designer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 6 minutes ago, fde101 said: Based on the fact that the Photo beta is now listed as "gold master" and this is not (and is still getting new features), am I correct in guessing that the official release of Publisher is not happening at the same time as Photo and Designer? Tut tut! Where is the suspense??? Patrick and his cat were holding two fingers/paws. Was this a clue to 2 weeks? 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Is there any official comment on PDF-pass-through functionality? Planned? In Progress? Coming later, but not in the initial release? Not planned at all? I need this for almost every publication (most adverts come as PDF files) and re-saving PDFs as high-res TIF files (to ensure correct output) takes up a lot of space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 2 minutes ago, jmwellborn said: Was this a clue to 2 weeks? If you check the "gold master" release thread for the Photo beta it indicates that unless something major is found, the Photo release will be next week. I find it unlikely that the already-released apps will be updated out of sync (due to file compatibility issues) so presumably that means Designer also. Publisher has never been released, so with new features still being added, no "gold master" yet, etc., I'm guessing they might be planning on holding that for a bit longer to polish it off a bit more. This would also explain the missing "Edit in Publisher" menu items from the Photo and Designer betas, if they had come to the conclusion that this might happen... KipV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 3 minutes ago, fde101 said: Publisher has never been released, so with new features still being added Like this! Ver'r'r'r'r'y curious. 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcarvalho84 Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Really nice the new splash screen!! AdamW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 16 minutes ago, dcarvalho84 said: Really nice the new splash screen!! Really? I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but if Serif made their splash screens to be a bitmap like Xara products, I would make my own in a heartbeat...even though I only see it for mere seconds. (Xara has made some funky ones too. And I changed them as well.) Sorry Adam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted May 31, 2019 Author Staff Share Posted May 31, 2019 19 minutes ago, MikeW said: Sorry Adam. No worries, Mike, you're entitled to have an opinion. 000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyWalk Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Nice, thanx for better and better piece of software! iMac: 3,6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9 / Graphic: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB / System: Sonoma 14.1 (23B74) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Just pre-ordered YYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!! AffinityAppMan 1 Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.2.1 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.1, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.2.1 www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Hooray!!!! Pre-ordered and so excited!!!!!!!! AffinityAppMan 1 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Bohn Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 I like the splash screen but find it odd that it references the old icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 1 hour ago, Jeremy Bohn said: I like the splash screen but find it odd that it references the old icon. You didn't pick up on the fact that the Triangle is producing Quadrilaterals, or is eating them or I have too much imagination. Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: You didn't pick up on the fact that the Triangle is producing Quadrilaterals, or is eating them or I have too much imagination. You have too much imagination! The new Designer and Photo splash screens also reference the old icon, so it would be rather odd if the Publisher splash screen didn’t do the same. Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcarvalho84 Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 Guys it's not the "old" logo, it is the Affinity logo which has not changed. Alfred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psaldari Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 Pre-order: done! I love the new icon style fde101 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted June 4, 2019 Author Staff Share Posted June 4, 2019 This build has been superseded by Build 376 and this thread is now locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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