Staff AdamW Posted May 31, 2019 Staff Share Posted May 31, 2019 Status: Public BetaPurpose: Stability and General TestingRequirements: 64 Bit Win 7 SP1 / Win 8.1 / Win 10 (>=1607) We are pleased to announce 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 Uwe367, mykee, Aammppaa and 6 others 4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
af-user Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Nice splash StuartRc, AdamW and mykee 3 System Notebook Lenovo P50 CPU: AMD Ryzen 3900x CPU: Intel i7-6700HQ RAM: 64 GB RAM: 32 GB GPU: RTX 3080 TI GPU: NVIDIA Quadro M2000M 4 GB SSD: Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 500GB OS: Windows 11 Edu x64 OS: Windows 10 x64 TFT: 1 x Samsung C49RG94SSU TFT: 2 x Lenovo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tourmaline Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Impressive list of improvements and fixes. I'll test the installer and report back. EDIT: no problems updating Affinity Publisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 8 hours ago, AdamW said: Added 'Edit Image' for linked raster images Thanks for that one. I've been missing it for awhile now -- 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...
walt.farrell Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 8 hours ago, AdamW said: Added 'Edit Image' for linked raster images However, I'm curious why it's only for linked raster images, and not also for embedded raster images. Is there any further information available about that? A_B_C 1 -- 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...
Tourmaline Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 37 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: However, I'm curious why it's only for linked raster images, and not also for embedded raster images. Is there any further information available about that? Could have something to do with the Photo persona? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe367 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Thanks for this new Beta. I like the new Logo which is shown at startup. And i have a feeling that the App starts up much faster than before. That´s not only with Publisher, since the last Photo and Designer Beta, with them it´s the same Great Job guys. Thumbs up Have a nice day. Ich wünsche einen schönen Tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 This bug also present in Publisher… Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Wooow. Fast start and problem with RTF format saved from Word, now solved. Thanks, A-Team. Patrick Connor 1 All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdh Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Still having the same problems I reported in other threads: since the last 2 builds, I am unable to export to a pdf. It crashes on the export screen and I'm unable to make any other choices. This is for a large file of 365 pages. It will also crash if I try to print. It seems to work ok on a small file of 25 pages or so. (I've already sent the files in to Help). Also, the large file is very very slow to load. It appears the new build didn't solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 13 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said: and problem with RTF format saved from Word, now solved. May I ask, is this the RTF format problem we had a conversation yesterday? I'd be glad if it would work for you as well d. Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 16 minutes ago, dominik said: May I ask, is this the RTF format problem we had a conversation yesterday? I'd be glad if it would work for you as well d. Yes, that one. I suppose the problem was with the cyrilic support. dominik 1 All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michail Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 On 6/1/2019 at 2:20 AM, walt.farrell said: However, I'm curious why it's only for linked raster images, and not also for embedded raster images. Is there any further information available about that? Because APub doesn't know where the original of an embedded image is (theoretically). The result of the image editing would have no effect on the image in the layout and would therefore be somewhat meaningless. Unless, of course, you prefer in the future to do image editing in the photo persona rather than in the original application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 1 hour ago, Michail said: Because APub doesn't know where the original of an embedded image is (theoretically). The result of the image editing would have no effect on the image in the layout and would therefore be somewhat meaningless. Unless, of course, you prefer in the future to do image editing in the photo persona rather than in the original application. Thanks, Michail. I thought about that, but the result of a "Save" could, for an embedded image, be applied to the active Publisher document and not affect the original file. There are times I might want only a local change, and being able to edit just the embedded image in an isolated state like we can now do with a linked image could be useful. Of course, if one has an embedded image one could always maked it Linked using the Resource Manager, use "Edit Image", then make it Embedded again. So it can be done, just with a few more steps. -- 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...
Michail Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: There are times I might want only a local change, and being able to edit just the embedded image in an isolated state like we can now do with a linked image could be useful. I have only tried to explain why this button does not exist for embedded images. You're right: Even with embedded images, there must be a way to go directly to a single image to edit it. Then, of course, the image editing only refers to the image in the layout. My suggestion: There are two different buttons in the same place: - For linked images it is called "Edit original". - For embedded images it is called "Edit Image". A_B_C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToOldForThis Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 One major issue I reported some time ago regarding Master Pages not being honoured when a single page is inserted still has not been changed. Inserting a single page in APub messes up the Master Page layout. I know you might feel this is a "feature," but to me it's a broken one. In PP Master Pages are always honoured. It looks like Master Pages in APub are only dynamic templates, and not true masters. What boggles my mind is that you own the PP code and could have simply referred to it when coding the APub Master Pages. Your new Master Page philosophy is a deal breaker for me. I can't use APub for laying out novels because the insertion of a single page forces me to reapply the Master Page for ALL SUCCEEDING PAGES and realign all text frames within the margins. In a 250-300 page novel, that becomes untenable. I had great hopes, since I am quite happy with APhoto and switched from Photoshop. But, my APub hopes are dashed. Good for small layouts but not big ones. I'll keep checking in future releases to see if you've changed your Master Page processing. Thanks for the Beta discount, but won't be using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted June 4, 2019 Author Staff Share Posted June 4, 2019 Hi ToOldForThis, Thank you for your feedback We are aware of the issue you have raised - indeed I know I have responded to you previously. We plan to make more improvements to Master Pages and content handling after launch. 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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