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Affinity Publisher Changelog

What's new in Affinity Publisher 2.4.2

Apr 8, 2024
  • Bug fixes which affected all platforms:
  • Export Preview does not correctly display results when using Rasterise = Nothing AF-2284
  • .CR2/CR3 images import with desaturated/washed out colours when switching between RAW engines
  • Bug fixes which affected Desktop (Windows and macOS):
  • Customer .docx file placed within a text frame in a new doc gives "Failed to Save" message. AF-2158
  • Tables: Update from Selection on Default format enables 'Delete' causing app to crash when deleting format. AF-2142
  • Bugs fixed which specifically affected Windows:
  • Pixel and Pixel Grid gridlines are thicker in v2.4. AF-2167
  • Attempt to fix RAW files having Artefacts when opened. AF-2178
  • Crash when changing between Light and Dark UI with stroke panel and unselected curve on page.
  • Crash - adding pages from files and specifying a section to add.
  • Layers panel: layer drop zones broken. AF-2394
  • Can't undo live filter or adjustment layer creation. AF-2265
  • CTRL modifier for boolean Add now makes compounds. AF-2432
  • Grids fail to instantly update on document when modified. AF-2224
  • Using a keyboard shortcut for Geometry > Add results in a compound shape as if ctrl + add was clicked. AF-2444
  • Builds on arm devices failing to render documents with OpenCL enabled. AF-2173

New in Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 (Mar 26, 2024)

  • Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher (on macOS, Windows, and iOS) have been updated to add some lessons (where the samples are found) for beginners to Photo and Designer on all OSs. Lessons for Publisher will follow soon. Apart from adding "Lessons" there have been some minor help and translations improvements, and 2.4.2 will follow shortly including fixes.

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.5.1282 Beta (Jan 25, 2022)

  • Fixed registration failure (will now use the browser to complete registration, rather than attempt it in-app)
  • Updated help

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.4.1198 (Oct 30, 2021)

  • Fixed Refine Selection as New Layer with Mask preventing rendering of Artboards
  • Fixed Brush Hardness changing when swapping tools
  • Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer
  • Fixed vector import potentially importing with the wrong document size
  • Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply
  • Fixed some occasionally fonts failing to be recognized at startup
  • Fixed Borderless printing having a border
  • Fixed 'Preset Manager' > 'Shape Presets' being unable to click
  • Fixed hang on My Account page
  • Fixed crash when closing the application
  • Fixed potential crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font
  • Fixed 'Convert to Curves' crash with underlined text, emoji etc.
  • Fixed Vector import (SVG etc) can be created at incorrect size
  • Screen and UI corruption (in 1.10.3) on some desktops
  • App hanging on shutdown due to font cache problem
  • Help & localisation improvements.

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.3.1191 (Oct 25, 2021)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer.
  • Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply.
  • Vector import (SVG, IDML etc) can be created at incorrect size.
  • Space incorrectly gets added to text on clipboard if you double click a word to highlight.
  • Fixed bug when deleting multiple pinned objects at the same time.
  • Placed .afphoto documents can cause redraw issues.
  • PDF Passthrough could crash when rendering entire placed document.
  • Positioning pins should not find frames that are not editable.
  • Hyperlinks with 'MailTo' fail to export when containing a space.
  • Miscellaneous stability updates arising from specific cases.
  • Invalid URL hyperlinks prevent PDF export.
  • Date & Time field format options not appearing.
  • Help & localisation improvements.

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.2.1187 Beta (Oct 21, 2021)

  • Fixed document with 'Save History' failing to save after promoting a Group to a Layer.
  • Fixed PSD import of Linear Burn blend mode being imported as Multiply.
  • Vector import (SVG, IDML etc) can be created at incorrect size.
  • Space incorrectly gets added to text on clipboard if you double click a word to highlight.
  • Fixed bug when deleting multiple pinned objects at the same time.
  • Other assorted small fixes.

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.2.1167 Beta (Sep 15, 2021)

  • Placed .afphoto documents can cause redraw issues
  • PDF Passthrough could crash when rendering entire placed document
  • Positioning pins should not find frames that are not editable
  • Hyperlinks with 'MailTo' fail to export when containing a space
  • Issues with borderless printing
  • Miscellaneous stability updates arising from specific cases

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.2.1156 Beta (Aug 26, 2021)

  • Issues with the Affinity Web Services 'My Account' Page
  • 'Replace' in the Resource Manager converts Linked to Embedded
  • Invalid URL hyperlinks prevent PDF export
  • Other assorted minor fixes

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.1.1142 (Aug 25, 2021)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Converting text with emojis, underlined text, or text with other attributes to curves would cause the app to crash.
  • Application failed to launch due to downloaded My Account content that contains missing fonts.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when closing the application.
  • Trials have been reset, so anyone who has tried the 10 day trail before can start a new trial.
  • Fixed the "Failed to save" error in documents containing duplicated picture frames.
  • Fixed a crash with global list numbering and composing text.
  • Fixed a crash opening some files containing linked text frames.
  • Fixed a crash selecting pins.
  • Unsplash removed from the stock panel
  • Help and localisation improvement.

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.1.1138 Beta (Aug 16, 2021)

  • Fixed crashes on load of specific documents
  • Fixed Convert to Curves crash with underlined text, emoji etc.
  • 'Replace' in the Resource Manager converts Linked to Embedded

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.1.1135 Beta (Aug 10, 2021)

  • Fixed instance where a document could get into a state where it could not be saved
  • Invalid URL hyperlinks prevent PDF export
  • Fixed crash on launch when a sync'd asset references an unavailable font

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.0.1127 (Aug 5, 2021)

  • Various stability improvements and assorted other fixes.
  • Help and localisation improvement.
  • Smaller PDF export file sizes when multiple copies of the same passthrough PDFs are present.
  • Better output of placed PDFs set to Passthrough exported as PDF formats that do not support Passthrough.
  • Added support for most emoji
  • Improved IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages.
  • Added ‘Limit Initial Zoom to 100%’ preferences option (Windows)
  • Implemented OpenType character variant samples and parameter names.
  • Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents failing to load
  • (The maximum number of allowed open file handles was being exceeded leading to erroneous 'Future Version Error')
  • Import keyboard shortcuts from IDML files.
  • Improved performance with:
  • Heavily layered documents (faster rendering during panning and text reflow)
  • Editing speed with long stories
  • Placed images
  • Embedded documents
  • Low-memory conditions
  • Placed PDFs set to Passthrough
  • Documents containing placed documents (Resource Manager)
  • Resource Manager:
  • New Relink option for missing resources.
  • New File Type column.
  • EPS files can be linked.

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.0.1127 Beta (Jul 31, 2021)

  • Fixed crashes when pasting between documents with different colour formats
  • Assorted minor fixes and improvements
  • Localisation updates
  • Help updates

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.0.1115 Beta (Jul 21, 2021)

  • Prevented unnecessary duplication of placed documents on IDML import
  • Fixed issues with documents that have large numbers of embedded documents failing to load
  • (The maximum number of allowed open file handles was being exceeded leading to erroneous 'Future Version Error')
  • Improved OpenAsset support
  • Localisation updates
  • Help updates

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.0.1109 Beta (Jul 15, 2021)

  • Text wrap settings from existing document were not being honoured
  • Inline pinned objects could appear in the wrong location
  • Fixed Vertical Alignment issue for last cell in Table
  • Formatting could revert when inserting text
  • Convert to Curves for pinned objects could transform objects unnecessarily
  • Honour document colour format when providing clipboard PDF data to other applications
  • Linked images in a packages were not always resolved correctly

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.0.1103 Beta (Jul 5, 2021)

  • Fixed crash composing text under certain circumstances
  • IDML Import - Fixed issue where text could disappear with certain files
  • PDF Import - Fixed crash for specific file where the importer was creating many nested empty layers unnecessarily
  • Vector Export - Simplify gradient fills that have been created with many stops that could crash when exporting
  • Vector Export - Fixed instance where clipped items were being rasterised unnecessarily
  • Fixed issue where 'Next Style' could fail to work when entering text
  • Fixed possible crash when auto-flowing text into master based text frames
  • Character Panel - Kerning and Tracking scroll increments are inconsistent
  • Character Panel- Baseline field up/down arrows function incorrectly using comma decimals.
  • Fixed issue where 'Limit zoom to 100%' could fail to apply
  • Fixed crashes with Japanese IME under certain circumstances

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.0.1098 Beta (Jun 24, 2021)

  • MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Defer more text composition tasks until required. This results in a notable increase in speed when editing long stories.
  • GENERAL:
  • Fix for double apply of Blend Mode in nodes with clipped children
  • Fix loading files from paths containing decomposed Unicode
  • MASTER PAGES:
  • When migrating masters take account of editability of candidate parents. Strengthened candidate name matching to disallow set and mismatched names
  • RENDER AND PERFORMANCE:
  • Eliminated inefficiency in placed PDF cache handling
  • Improved Pages Panel page thumbnail rendering / caching
  • Fixed possible memory leak on Document Close
  • TEXT:
  • Glyph Browser was showing corruption / failing to render emoji
  • Improve performance of Glyph Browser with emoji fonts by using appropriate resolution bitmaps
  • Text Style panel samples can be poor quality
  • Inline pinned nodes were exporting as a spurious character
  • Highlight individual clauses when IME editing
  • RESOURCE MANAGER:
  • Resource Manager cosmetic tweaks, prevented removal of all columns etc
  • EXPORT:
  • PDF Export - Reduced file export size when multiple copies of the same passthrough PDF are present

New in Affinity Publisher 1.10.0.1085 Beta (Jun 14, 2021)

  • Text:
  • Added Emoji support
  • Improved Windows IME support for Chinese / Japanese text entry
  • Import / Export:
  • IDML Import - fixes for specific documents
  • IDML Import - improved text style grouping and added import of keyboard shortcuts
  • SVG Import - Parser improvements for whitespace handling
  • SVG Export - Fix for export of stretched text when transforms are flattened
  • RTF Import - Fixed specific crash if line breaks occurred in the vicinity of ligatures
  • RTF Export - improved support for Unicode characters above 64k
  • RTF Export - wasn't closing small caps correctly
  • Resources:
  • Improved performance of Resource Manager for documents containing of placed documents
  • Placing an embedded document was incorrectly favouring any currently placed instance over the source file
  • EPS files can now be 'Made Linked' in Resource Manager if the original source file is present

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.4.1082 Beta (Jun 3, 2021)

  • Resource Manager Improvements:
  • New 'Relink' option for missing resources
  • New 'File Type' column in Resource Manager
  • Improved efficiency when updating Resources for some documents
  • Show progress for long operations
  • Improved memory management for placed PDFs set to Passthrough
  • Improved output of placed PDFs set to Passthrough to targets not supporting Passthrough
  • Artboard Labels could disappear
  • Fixed some issues with Picture Frame content scaling

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.4.1076 Beta (May 21, 2021)

  • General:
  • Performance and memory usage improvements when using placed images and documents
  • Significant performance improvements in low memory situations
  • Misc / UI Issues:
  • Fixed (more) issues parsing numeric field in non-English locales
  • Master page guides were shown on both pages of a spread, when the master is applied to only one page
  • Table and Text Frame panels can now scroll
  • Improved handling of replacement of missing fonts via Font Manager
  • Fixed discrepancies with tinted global colours
  • Added 'Limit Initial Zoom to 100%' preferences option (defaulted to off)
  • Fixed text flow linking issues duplicating an pages in a facing page document
  • Changed default severity of Missing Glyphs preflight check to 'Error'
  • Fill Mode not propagated through symbols correctly
  • Text and Tools:
  • Fixed issue with Paragraph Minimum letter spacing
  • Implemented OpenType character variant samples and parameter names
  • Improvements to OpenType GPOS Cursive positioning
  • Tab leader lines can draw incorrectly with path text
  • Don't break lines after dashes or hyphens if followed by a digit or close-quote
  • Typing at the start of a blank line could take the following paragraph's formatting
  • Paragraph formatting lost when deleting at end of story
  • Fixed possible hang resizing table columns
  • Some font weights remain in All Caps after toggling them off using the Character Panel
  • Find / Replace - Replace expressions with tokens not restored correctly
  • Fixed shortcut limitation in Text Tools for Page Up / Page Down
  • Application could hang with the Text Panel open for non-English locales
  • Filter degenerate cases (e.g. single stray points) when font outlines are converted to curves
  • Import / Resources:
  • Fixed width handling for certain characters from standard fonts (e.g. Helvetica) on PDF import
  • Updating a PDF via Resource Manager was resetting Interpret / Passthrough
  • Artboards could be resized when replacing placed documents
  • Fixed a bug / possible crash in the PSD importer
  • EPS Import was ignoring Fill Mode for pattern fills
  • On Windows we may need to normalize a stored macOS resource path before use
  • Export / Print:
  • Placed PDFs could disappear on PDF Export to Greyscale if 'Rasterise All' was selected
  • Fixed Export document rounding issues when exporting spreads with bleed
  • Fixes for output of very thin lines for plotters and cutters

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.2.1035 (Mar 31, 2021)

  • Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time)
  • Fixed some downloadable brushes being considered undeletable
  • Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images
  • Improved Brush and Asset categories to be alphabetically sorted
  • Fixed line breaks not being copied to clipboard.
  • Misc fixes for My Account feature and content downloads.
  • Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized artboards or groups
  • Fixed crash with Vector Brush Tool when the Appearance panel is open and undoing a brush stroke and selection changes to an object that had no linestyle
  • Fixed failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight
  • Fixed loading of certain assets consuming huge amounts of memory
  • Fixed specific Print Profile crash
  • Fixed crash when dragging Unsplash images from panel when Unsplash is returning errors
  • Added F15 / F16 zoom shortcuts for tablets
  • Fixed print orientation being wrong when printing Label with Auto Rotate selected
  • Fixed stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects
  • Fixed "Print job was cancelled from print manager" using Canon iPF 5100 drivers
  • Fixed ending the print spooler from Services causing the app to hang..
  • Help and Localisation improvements
  • Various stability improvements and assorted other small fixes.

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.2.1024 Beta (Mar 26, 2021)

  • Fixed regression present in 1.9.2.1022 where documents containing missing resources could crash on open .

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.2.1022 Beta (Mar 25, 2021)

  • Several stability improvements in response to specific documents
  • Fixed crash when placing assets containing Artboards
  • Improvements when copying text as Unicode. Also renamed 'Normalize Breaks' to 'Preserve Unicode Breaks' in Preferences
  • Linked Documents (EPS, SGV, AF) sometimes displayed the PDF Passthrough options
  • Fixed Bleed inconsistency that could occur when 'Adding Pages from File...'
  • Fixed possible crash reparenting anchors in the Anchor Panel
  • Fixed crash when embedding a document listed as missing content in the Resource Manager
  • Fixed crash when attempting to open a file with links to images containing disallowed path characters (from e.g. macOS)

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.2.1014 Beta (Mar 20, 2021)

  • Fixed crash when replacing Image Resource with Raw
  • Fixed issue replacing Picture Frame images for Master Page Frames
  • Grouped Text in Assets could change scale when placed
  • Create palette from document was only using the current spread
  • Bleed was not honoured for placed Artboards
  • Scaling issues with placed Artboards
  • Creating an Asset Category whilst using 'Name' sort order will cause subsequent subcategory to be created in the wrong category
  • Asset Pack list sorting only happens on asset creation and not rename or import.
  • Tool not updated correctly when Zooming

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.2.1009 Beta (Mar 15, 2021)

  • More fixes for Replace Image transform issues
  • Fixed Stock Panel retrieval for Unsplash

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.2.1006 Beta (Mar 12, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • General
  • Fix for Replace Image moving Picture Frame content unnecessarily
  • Significant performance improvements for assets (import, export, organisation, etc.)
  • Open PDF swaps top and bottom bleeds
  • Failure to create an object style if the only delta was line weight
  • Added F15 / F16 shortcuts for Tablet Zoom
  • Text:
  • Implemented OpenType Reverse Chaining Contextual Single Substitutions (e.g. Iosevka Font)
  • Fixed crash when a custom wrap shape outline has been converted to text
  • Pinned nodes could be wrongly moved into overflow
  • Redraw issue resizing Table with insets
  • RTF Import: Paragraph style from footnote destination was leaking into main text
  • Typography Panel fails to display certain properties

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.2.998 Beta (Mar 8, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • General:
  • Fixed crash at startup due to bad OpenCL drivers (really this time)
  • Document / Spread setup:
  • Document size presets create incorrectly sized pages if the Document DPI doesn't match the preset DPI
  • Business card templates shouldn't be facing page
  • Import / Export / Resources:
  • Fixed being unable to download full resolution OpenAsset images
  • Improved Brush and Asset categories alphabetical sort options
  • Fixed crash choosing Add Pages from File with 'After Last Page' selected
  • Replacing a scaled Picture Frame image wasn't maintaining placement
  • Convert to Picture Frame does not use default saved settings, cf Convert to Text Frame
  • Renaming then re-linking a cropped PDF or AF document scales the un-cropped document
  • Missing Content Status for placed PDFs
  • Placed PDF Page Box / Maximum Content calculated incorrectly
  • Add Pages from File could handle z-order badly when moving page content
  • Renamed Export Area 'With background' option to avoid confusion. Fixed other Export UI inconsistencies
  • Text:
  • Added Preferences option to normalise text breaks on copy to clipboard
  • Unwanted auto-correct capitalisation caused by exclamation and question marks
  • Inline text objects should not have Text Wrap options enabled
  • Text Style Editor > Next level should use "[Same Style]" rather than "[No Style]"
  • Active text Selection on pasteboard not always drawn correctly
  • Decrement paragraph level would sometimes find the wrong previous style
  • Fixed potential hang moving pinned nodes
  • If spaces are overset, squeeze them up to keep the caret within the frame
  • Performance improvements generating text wrap shapes in complex cases
  • Table Format Panel previews always rendered as RGB
  • Hyperlinks to Anchors can point to incorrect Anchors if Anchor name has been duplicated
  • Paragraph Decoration has no "inherit state" when used as "based on" style
  • Alignment context toolbar options for table cells don't work
  • Not enough space to show Text Style shortcut on Windows
  • General:
  • Fixed Assets and Symbols transforming when dragged onto resized Artboards or Groups
  • Fixed Live filters that have any position controls being broken on saving and re-opening the document
  • Guides added via Guides Manager are now clamped to Spread size
  • Master Page Guides could be applied incorrectly when a Master is applied to only one page of a facing page Spread
  • Transform panel ignores ruler origin in line mode
  • Performance improvements when Preflight panel showing lots of errors / warnings
  • Printing:
  • Print auto-rotate not always triggered when other paper properties changed
  • Stroke width being printed incorrectly on rotated objects on certain printers
  • Some Printer Drivers (Canon) return inconsistent status codes while printing
  • Fixed printing issues when the Print Spooler service has been stopped

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.1.979 (Feb 25, 2021)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • General:
  • Fixed Crashes and errors when using the My Account option
  • Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales
  • Fixed crash on open for a number of reported 1.8 / beta documents
  • Fixed intermittent crash on applying Master Page
  • (Mac) Fixed issue causing some UI icons to be rendered at incorrect sizes
  • (Mac) Fixed New Document dialog scheming on older macOS
  • (Mac) Fixed 'Monochromatic Iconography'
  • (Mac) Fixed toolbar height in separated mode
  • (Windows) Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file
  • (Windows) Fixed crash on shutdown while "My Account" content is still downloading
  • (Windows) Fixes to mitigate issues with hardware acceleration on some systems
  • Document Loading:
  • Fixed possible crash when opening files with iCloud based image resources
  • Fix for documents failing to load due to infinite loop with Constraints and certain document structures
  • Fixed potential hang while composing text in text frames with non-default Vertical Alignment
  • Fixed the inability to save some files originally opened as read only.
  • Text:
  • Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped
  • Paragraph > Justification > Minimum, Desired and Maximum word spacing controls inoperative
  • Added Glyph Picker for Initial Words characters
  • Interactive > Go To Hyperlink can crash if no target
  • Fix for wrap settings on pinned objects not always updating correctly
  • Fixed scaling instability with inline text objects under certain circumstances
  • Objects inserted into Master Page text were not updating correctly on regular pages
  • Truncate long Find and Replace MRU menu entries to prevent UI overflow
  • Spelling applied through Paragraph style only takes effect after re-applying the style
  • Pressing delete whilst unlinking frames causes a crash
  • Fixed possible crash when inserting a TOC
  • (Windows) Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible
  • Import / Export / Resources:
  • Fixed blocking that could occur when placing especially large raster heavy PDF files
  • Updating a PDF via Resource Manager resets Interpret / Passthrough state
  • IDML Import - Fixed unlocking of layers coming from IDML Import
  • IDML Import - Fix for Text Styles not applied correctly with specific file
  • IDML Import - Fix for rotated items in Picture Frames
  • IDML Import - For failure to import some text items in Table cells
  • IDML Import - Fix for crash on import of specific file(s)
  • PDF Import - Improvements to how PDF Import handles text lists. Ambiguity between Roman numeral "c" and Latin letter "c" is handled better.
  • PDF Import - Fix for clipping paths being incorrectly identified as redundant and discarded in some circumstances
  • PDF Export - PDF set for Passthrough crops incorrectly
  • PDF Export - Fixed crash exporting file with Bookmarks
  • EPS Import - Fixed failure to detect colour space when the EPS only had shades
  • Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files
  • Placed landscape afpub files could be treated as portrait under certain circumstances
  • Unable to create custom export presets - options disabled
  • Fix for performance problems when placing an asset which contains images
  • Updating images via Resource Manager was resetting scale
  • Resource Manager now sorts by page number
  • (Mac) Save As Package fails on macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) or earlier
  • (Mac) Fixed Resource Manager on older macOS
  • Tools and Rendering:
  • Transform Objects Separately was ignored for some operations
  • Align buttons were modifying master page content when used in "Edit Detached" mode
  • Fix for parts of some master page objects / paragraph decorations not showing in bleed on regular pages
  • Recent colours are now updated when changing a Table cell Fill or Stroke
  • Items contained on a master page's bleed area disappeared when zoomed in

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.1.979 Beta (Feb 25, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Fix for some placed PDFs being scaled incorrectly
  • Fix for disappearing master page objects when zooming
  • Fixed crash updating a linked placed document inside a picture frame

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.1.967 Beta (Feb 20, 2021)

  • General:
  • Fixes to mitigate issues with hardware acceleration on some systems
  • Document Loading:
  • Fixed possible crash when opening files with iCloud based image resources
  • Fix for documents failing to load due to infinite loop with Constraints and certain document structures
  • Fixed potential hang while composing text in text frames with non-default Vertical Alignment
  • Import / Export / Resources:
  • Fix for performance problems when placing an asset which contains images
  • PDF set for Passthrough crops incorrectly
  • PDF Export - Fixed crash exporting file with Bookmarks
  • Updating images via Resource Manager was resetting scale
  • Resource Manager now sorts by page number
  • Text:
  • Spelling applied through Paragraph style only takes effect after re-applying the style
  • Pressing delete whilst unlinking frames causes a crash
  • Fixed possible crash when inserting a TOC

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.1.952 Beta (Feb 12, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • General:
  • Fixed Affinity registration showing in English for some supported locales
  • Fixed inability to disable hardware acceleration, or a crash at startup if the hardware acceleration option hadn't been written to the settings file
  • Fixed crash on open for a number of reported 1.8 / beta documents
  • Fixed intermittent crash on applying Master Page
  • Import / Export / Resources:
  • Fixed blocking that could occur when placing especially large raster heavy PDF files
  • Updating a PDF via Resource Manager resets Interpret / Passthrough state
  • IDML Import - Fixed unlocking of layers coming from IDML Import
  • IDML Import - Fix for Text Styles not applied correctly with specific file
  • IDML Import - Fix for rotated items in Picture Frames
  • IDML Import - For for failure to import some text items in Table cells
  • IDML Import - Fix for crash on import of specific file(s)
  • PDF Import - Improvements to how PDF Import handles text lists. Ambiguity between Roman numeral "c" and Latin letter "c" is handled better.
  • PDF Import - Fix for clipping paths being incorrectly identified as redundant and discarded in some circumstances
  • EPS Import - Fixed failure to detect colour space when the EPS only had shades
  • Fixed TGA import to allow loading of large files
  • Placed landscape afpub files could be treated as portrait under certain circumstances
  • Fixed EMFs not rendering on non-RGBA documents
  • Copy As SVG prevents Affinity data being added to the clipboard
  • Fixed Resource Manager selection issues
  • Resource Manager Replace button enabled state was mismanaged under certain circumstances
  • Tools and Rendering:
  • Transform Objects Separately was ignored for some operations
  • Align buttons were modifying master page content when used in "Edit Detached" mode
  • Fix for parts of some master page objects / paragraph decorations not showing in bleed on regular pages
  • Recent colours are now updated when changing a Table cell Fill or Stroke
  • Text:
  • Fixed performance problems when Paragraph Panel was visible
  • Paragraph > Justification > Minimum, Desired and Maximum word spacing controls inoperative
  • Text in scaled text frame could increase in size when grouped
  • Added Glyph Picker for Initial Words characters
  • Interactive > Go To Hyperlink can crash if no target
  • Fix for wrap settings on pinned objects not always updating correctly
  • Fixed scaling instability with inline text objects under certain circumstances
  • Objects inserted into Master Page text were not updating correctly on regular pages
  • Truncate long Find and Replace MRU menu entries to prevent UI overflow

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.932 (Feb 4, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • Data Merge
  • Support PDF Passthrough to ensure perfect representation of original PDF when exporting, without the need to have embedded fonts installed
  • Package feature to collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder
  • Studio Presets for the UI layout to save your favourite workspace setups for different tasks, explained here Studio panel combinations
  • Content sync of store purchases (requires registration)
  • This feature is explained in more detail here Sync your Affinity Store resources with your Affinity 1.9 apps
  • Windows hardware (GPU) acceleration (for users running Windows 10 (April 2020 update or later) with a Direct3D feature level 12.0 capable card)
  • Flattened bitmap representation used for all PSD files
  • Path text improvements
  • Initial text baseline advance
  • Configurable bleed and margin guide colours
  • OpenAsset support for drag/drop from browser content
  • PDF bookmarks
  • Convert pixel layer to image node
  • Divide blend mode
  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • General:
  • Artboard conversion to spreads now optional
  • Placed scale for all placed files, which allows scaling to be reset to 100%
  • Pages panel loses the scroll position when switching between document tabs
  • Document Merge - Added option to ignore unused incoming text styles
  • Document profile PDX Export preflight tweak, falls back to CMYK profile for RGB / LAB documents
  • Opening a template from File > Open or Drag and drop will now open it as untitled
  • Filter Effect Dialog - Enabled the use of global colours
  • When creating a global colour from an object also apply it
  • Fixes various issues with mishandling of CJK fonts in the UI (Win)
  • Various stability improvements
  • Help and Localisation improvements
  • Performance improvements
  • Page/Spread:
  • Resizing single page Master could change the size of dependent spreads incorrectly
  • Deleting Master Page when editing detached could leave 'Editing Detached' notification open
  • Fixed issue where re-applying master pages with text frames with pinned objects could cause document instability
  • When modifying Adjustment Layers any bleed and pasteboard areas affected were not updating correctly
  • Pinned objects from Master Pages were not showing in bleed
  • Resizing a single page master could cause spreads that used it to be resized incorrectly
  • Guides lost from Master Page when changing from facing to single pages
  • Fixes for margins setup on a Master Page (Win)
  • Added option to 'Add Pages (from file) at end of document'
  • Added option in Add Pages From File to 'Add Before / After / Replacing Section'
  • Text:
  • Text selection highlight across multiple spreads could display incorrectly
  • Hyperlink styling could accidentally be added to new text
  • More consistent handling of mid-word punctuation
  • Deleting a row with merged cells could cause a crash
  • Text wrap settings on images could become distorted after a document save and load
  • Fix for hang resizing table columns in certain circumstances
  • Line widths around Drop Caps could be wrong /inconsistent
  • Glyph Browser was missing glyphs under certain circumstances when sorting via Unicode
  • Prevent application of Hyperlink Anchors to Layers / Master Page instances
  • Prevent creation of blank Hyperlink Anchors that could case errors on PDF Export
  • Multi-curve text wrap could be combined incorrectly resulting in unexpected wrapping around complex shapes
  • Bookmarks created by TOC not in the correct order when exported to PDF
  • Auto correct quotation marks for French
  • Style changes not always picked up as out of date for TOC
  • TOC Anchors were not being deleted when the TOC was deleted
  • Fixed generation of wrap shapes for certain images with alpha
  • Import:
  • IDML Import - text import now always applies appropriate text styling to be used when appending to imported text
  • IDML import - Speed and efficiency improvements
  • PDF import - Filter Effects could be wrongly rasterised and cause export failures
  • PDF import - placed PDF improvements
  • PDF import - fix for tiling patterns
  • SVG Import - stability improvement
  • Resources:
  • Many Resource Manager fixes and improvements
  • Artboard and other settings could be lost when reconnecting missing Affinity resources
  • Place linked files could be opened as <Embedded> under certain circumstances
  • 'Size frame to content' for images imported from IDML could behave incorrectly
  • Picture frame within a Picture Frame could cause crash
  • Export:
  • Export Pages field now clears when switching documents
  • PDF Export - Improved export of Type 1 fonts, which could cause failure under certain circumstances
  • TGA Export - Fix for 32bit export
  • RTF export / copy paste was losing hyphens under certain circumstances

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.920 Beta (Jan 27, 2021)

  • Fixed recent regression whereby loading documents with missing linked images on master pages could crash
  • Fixed recent regression where the document Image Placement Policy was not always honoured resulting in incorrect image Linked / Embedded status

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.911 Beta (Jan 26, 2021)

  • Fixes And Improvements:
  • General cosmetic improvements
  • Prevented manual insertion of objects into a Text Frame's list of pinned children via Layers, resulting in inconsistent document state.
  • PDF Passthrough was getting rasterised if vector cropped
  • Removed undesired maximums int Text Frame column gutter widths UI
  • Embed / Link options in Replace Image dialog weren't honoured

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.902 Beta (Jan 20, 2021)

  • Fixes And Improvements:
  • Documents:
  • Resizing single page Master could change the size of dependent spreads incorrectly
  • Deleting Master Page when editing detached could leave 'Editing Detached' notification open
  • Text / Tables:
  • Text selection highlight across multiple spreads could display incorrectly
  • Hyperlink styling could accidentally be added to new text
  • Deleting a row with merged cells could cause a crash
  • Fix for hang resizing table columns in certain circumstances
  • Line widths around Drop Caps could be wrong /inconsistent
  • Import / Export:
  • IDML text import now always applies appropriate text styling to be used when appending to imported text
  • IDML import speed and efficiency improvements
  • Fix for image handing in specific imported PDF files (in this case created by Microsoft Word)
  • Affinity Web Services:
  • Miscellaneous improvements

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.887 Beta (Jan 8, 2021)

  • Fixes And Improvements:
  • General:
  • Data Merge Manager layout improvements
  • Pages panel loses the scroll position when switching between document tabs
  • Glyph Browser was missing glyphs under certain circumstances when sorting via
  • Unicode:
  • Assets delete category was enabled when no categories present
  • It is now possible to importing a duplicate Styles category
  • Styles Panel - Restored ability to apply Styles with a single click
  • Document:
  • Fixed issue where re-applying master pages with text frames with pinned objects could cause document instability.
  • When modifying Adjustment Layers any bleed and pasteboard areas affected were not updating correctly
  • Import / Export:
  • Excel Import - Fix for issues arising when importing files containing merged cells
  • Excel Import - Currency Format improvements
  • PDF Export - Filter Effects could be wrongly rasterised and cause export failures
  • Document Merge - Added option to ignore unused incoming text styles
  • Text:
  • Prevent application of Hyperlink Anchors to Layers / Master Page instances
  • Prevent creation of blank Hyperlink Anchors that could case errors on PDF Export
  • Multi-curve text wrap could be combined incorrectly resulting in unexpected wrapping around complex shapes
  • Resources:
  • Artboard and other settings could be lost when reconnecting missing Affinity resources
  • Place linked files could be opened as <Embedded> under certain circumstances
  • 'Size frame to content' for images imported from IDML could behave incorrectly
  • Picture frame within a Picture Frame could cause crash
  • Fixed 'Show in Explorer' for modified linked resources
  • Affinity Web Services:
  • Miscellaneous improvements including resumable downloads

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.874 Beta (Dec 11, 2020)

  • General:
  • Fixed issues with Assets Panel
  • Fixed display of and snap to Column Guides
  • Snap to Object Geometry snapping to curve intersections was broken
  • Document profile PDX Export preflight tweak, falls back to CMYK profile for RGB / LAB documents
  • (Win) Fixes various issues with mishandling of CJK fonts in the UI
  • Selection Context Menu:
  • (Win) Fixed crash when using Ctrl+Right Click on empty area
  • (Win) Only dig into containers when the Secondary modifier is not held down
  • (Win) Parent node added to top of submenu
  • Rendering:
  • Fix for rotated or skewed filled rectangles not rendering correctly under OpenCL compute
  • Master Pages:
  • Pinned objects from Master Pages were not showing in bleed
  • Resizing a single page master could cause spreads that used it to be resized incorrectly
  • Guides lost from Master Page when changing from facing to single pages
  • (Win) Paste as Content into Master Page Picture Frames was disabled
  • (Win) Fixes for margins setup on a Master Page
  • Images and Resources:
  • Fix for xlsx import currency parsing
  • Fixed issue opening heic files with extended characters in the file path
  • Fixes for specific PDF import failures
  • PDF Passthrough not automatically set if PDF drag dropped from Finder / Explorer
  • Fixed warnings about over-size export files
  • Resource Manager could scale cropped objects on Replace
  • Resource Manager now shows Artboard names instead of Page Numbers for placed Artboard documents
  • Resource Manager 'Replace' for Picture Frame content was not working correctly
  • (Win) Passthrough PDFs could fail to print
  • (Win) Inconsistency with the 'Include Bleed' option on the Export Dialog
  • (Win) Resource Manager now highlights group of selected resource if group is collapsed
  • Text:
  • Text Frame button missing from context toolbar for Text on a Path
  • More consistent handling of mid-word punctuation
  • Text wrap settings on images could become distorted after a document save and load
  • Fixed issue adding tab stops to the Text Ruler
  • Fixed issue where grouping could change text size due to anomaly in layer setup
  • RTF export / copy paste was losing hyphens under certain circumstances
  • (Win) Fixed selection highlighting issue in Text Styles panel
  • (Win) Current Formatting box in the Text Styles panel was not always updating correctly
  • TOC:
  • Style changes not always picked up as out of date for TOC
  • Bookmarks created by TOC not in the correct order when exported to PDF
  • Data Merge:
  • Fixed Data Merge crash with no source selected

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.863 Beta (Nov 27, 2020)

  • Fixes And Improvements:
  • General:
  • Fixed Select > Deselect for Master Page items
  • Fixed crash which could occur when undoing a color format change
  • Fixed rounding error in scale displayed in the context toolbar scaling UI for images
  • Now able to drop folders from Windows Explorer which contain Assets into the Assets Panel
  • Ctrl+Right-Click displays tree of objects to select from
  • Pages panel loses the scroll position when switching between document tabs
  • Fixed Keyboard shortcuts > Apply to all
  • Allow marquee selection in Pages Panel
  • Text:
  • Text frame bounding rectangle now remains visible when typing text
  • Fixes for vertically aligned text in conjunction with baseline grid
  • Reverting local formatting in a TOC could cause issues
  • Auto correct quotation marks for French
  • Text Styles panel may truncate style names without clear indication.
  • Fixed use of Tab Character with Initial Words
  • Unable to add tab stop lower than the already existing highest value
  • Line breaks coming from Paragraph Style with Bullets and Numbering is now removed in TOC
  • Fix for the Index Panel showing double entries under certain circumstances
  • Fixed crash which could occur when deleting a TOC
  • Table Formats weren't rendered colour corrected in the panel
  • Fixed Initial Words UI update issue
  • Fixed issue with Spelling > Change UI
  • Find and Replace:
  • Fixed issue where Replace All with an empty string could cause a crash
  • Ensure found entry is always made visible in Find and Replace panel
  • Find and Replace did not always advance to next result correctly
  • Text from Master Page frames not selected correctly in Find and Replace panel
  • Images / Frames:
  • Converting to Picture Frame could distort the frame content
  • Can now 'Paste as Content' into Master Page Picture Frame
  • Name converted Pixel Layers
  • Name images created from the clipboard
  • Import / Export:
  • When creating a new file from a template reset the fields. When exporting don't change the filename field.
  • Fixed placement issue with artboard based afdesign files
  • Custom date formatting on xlsx files could import incorrectly
  • Export Pages field now clears when switching documents
  • Improved PDF export of Type 1 fonts, which could cause failure under certain circumstances
  • Fixed possible crash on PDF Export under failure conditions
  • PDF Export was converting RGB bitmaps to CMYK if the original document had the bitmap's working profile
  • Fixed crash in PDF Export which could occur if a bitmap's colour profile did not match the bitmaps colour format
  • Fix for TGA 32bit export
  • Data Merge:
  • Facing page data merge could lose data and assign incorrect master pages
  • Import from Excel files could miss rows whcih started with no data in the first column

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.850 Beta (Nov 16, 2020)

  • Fixes And Improvements:
  • Text > Interactive > Anchor options missing from shortcuts
  • Fixed possible crash applying Picture Frame properties
  • Opening a template from File > Open or Drag and drop will now open it as untitled
  • Filter Effect Dialog - Enabled the use of global colours

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.843 Beta (Nov 13, 2020)

  • Fixes And Improvements:
  • Updated to work correctly with new 1.8.6 Mac App Store version
  • Universal build, so includes Intel and Apple silicon code
  • Updates to Application Registration
  • General Fixes:
  • Crash converting Picture Frame to Text Frame
  • Set DPI and Profile on new image nodes
  • Fixed Context Toolbar image DPI slider
  • Import / Export:
  • Fixed crash importing specific PDF
  • Fixed crash importing specific Excel file
  • Duplicated PDFs render as interpreted when context bar states passthrough
  • IDML Import - Fixes for issues with Text Styles after import
  • IDML Import - Improved loading speed for image heavy documents
  • Resource Manager:
  • Resource Manager now sorts case-insensitive
  • List SVG previews were rendered too large in Resource Manager
  • Package:
  • Fixes for Package when sharing between macOS and Windows
  • Fix for losing track of resources in the event they can't be automatically resolved
  • Text:
  • Performance improvements with Hyperlink Panel showing
  • User created anchors on headings could be deleted when generating a TOC with no bookmarks
  • Bookmarks created by TOC not in the correct order when exported to PDF
  • Fixed generation of wrap shapes for certain images with alpha

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.829 Beta (Nov 5, 2020)

  • Fixes And Improvements:
  • General:
  • Avoid reporting some Pass through PDF preflight errors twice
  • 'Edit Detached' on Layer menu is not dimmed when it's inapplicable. Added commands to Edit Linked and Edit Frame Content
  • Find and Replace replacement style selection broken
  • Data Merge:
  • Data Merge record filter
  • Added general data merge source info fields (Record Index, Filtered Record Index)
  • Fixed 'Revert Defaults' with Data Merge Layout
  • File Import:
  • PSD Import improvements including loss of alpha fix

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.822 Beta (Oct 27, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • Product registration and store content streaming:
  • We have now added the ability to link your Affinity app to your Affinity account through a new app registration process. This will have the advantages of you being able to stream any content you have purchased or received for free from the Affinity store directly to all your apps without having to manually install them. This is of particular use to customers who have more than one of our apps, or run our apps on different devices and operating systems as all your content will automatically be available across all of them.
  • If you register the beta app you will initially receive a free brush kit (the luminance brush kit) for testing purposes. We appreciate this is of little use if you only use Publisher. In a couple of weeks however this will be expanded to include all of the store content you may already own.
  • While this is the full scope of what we are implementing for 1.9, the link between your account and your apps will open up the possibility for us to offer other features and services in the future which we think you will like.
  • Improvements and Fixes:
  • General:
  • Fixed issue with MRU files list not clearing under certain circumstances
  • Items copied as SVG cannot be pasted as text
  • Document Loading / Saving / Import / Export:
  • Fixed crash when loading document with missing resources
  • Fixed issue saving files opened via Package
  • Added import of SVG files from IDML
  • Added importing arrow heads from IDML
  • Margin and bleed guide colours imported from IDML
  • Associated .afpackage files with Publisher
  • PDF Place:
  • Raster previews are now generated for PDFs placed for passthrough
  • PageBoxes were flipped for placed PDFs
  • Changed default Passthrough Preflight Compatibility to worst case (PDF/X1-a)
  • Updated Passthrough Preflight Checks
  • Data Merge:
  • Renamed 'Data Merge Node' to 'Data Merge Layout'
  • When you add a Data Source it now prompts for a file immediately
  • Changed the preview default to 'Off'
  • Added 'Show Data Merge file in Finder / Explorer'
  • Progress reporting improved
  • Record Advance default was stuck on '2'
  • Add colon to Data Merge delimiters
  • Fix for Data Merge failure when data source file is moved
  • Fixed Data Merge crash with certain Excel file. Dates were not importing correctly from xlsx.
  • Disabled 'Generate' when there are no Data Merge sources
  • Fixed Revert to Defaults for Data Merge Layout
  • Data Merge Layout options could be shown when not applicable
  • Fixes for Data Merge field expansion
  • Fix for text size issues with Data Merge
  • Text:
  • Wrap shapes from Shaped Frames could be confused with user created ones
  • Expand fields doesn't expand fields in overflow
  • Made Increase / Decrease Leading Precise more precise
  • Bookmarks and Anchors:
  • Renaming anchors to pre-existing anchor names was merging anchors
  • TOC Anchors were not being deleted when the TOC was deleted
  • Anchors on Picture Frames weren't showing in Context Menu

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.798 Beta (Oct 15, 2020)

  • PDF Passthrough status was not being saved correctly
  • Prevent flowing text from a pinned frame to the node it is pinned to
  • Fix for slow text input with Hyperlink panel showing
  • Fixed Resource Manager update issue
  • Fixed Preferences > Abbreviations issue with extended characters
  • When creating a global colour from an object also apply it
  • Added lop level Menu entry for 'Edit Detached'
  • Anchors created from detached frames are not shown correctly
  • Fixed possible crash when with "Include hyperlinks" in the export dialog
  • Updated Preflight check and PDF Passthrough messages
  • Crash exporting specific PDF with passthrough
  • Placing a PSD causes a Placed PDF is missing or broken preflight message
  • Preferences > Shortcuts does not show Ctrl+Shift+1 to 9 as being used

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.796 Beta (Oct 13, 2020)

  • Data Merge:
  • Use the Data Merge Manager (Document > Data Merge Manager) to create a new datasource based on a Text / CSV, JSON or Excel file
  • Insert Fields from the datasource into text objects via the Fields Panel
  • Fields that represent image resource paths can be applied to Picture Frames
  • Optionally, use the DataMerge Node Tool in your source document to create N-up tiled source records
  • Use 'Generate' from the Data Merge Manager to create a new document based on your source document and datasource
  • Package:
  • Use 'Save As Package' and target an empty folder to create a packaged copy of your document and collect used fonts and linked images into subfolders
  • The package folder can be moved in its entirety to another location or to another device
  • On re-opening the package, links to images will be resolved and fonts can optionally be temporarily installed
  • It is important to adhere to copyright and licensing restrictions if redistributing images or fonts
  • Studio Presets:
  • Save and load custom Studio Workspaces
  • Other Fixes and Improvements:
  • Document Setup
  • Custom Margin colour not sticking
  • General:
  • Alt Gr+Tab breaks shortcuts
  • Fixed possible hang when font combo contains fonts we can't render
  • Import :
  • PDF import was getting tiling patterns wrong
  • Fixed crash the could occur opening PDFs containing objects with indexed colour spaces
  • SVG Importer stability improvement
  • IDML Import - Column rules
  • IDML Import - Increased use of IDML document defaults to inform the import process improving a number of cases
  • Text
  • Hyph:ens not being displayed with certain font weights
  • Add Pages From File:
  • Added option to 'Add Pages at end of document'
  • Added option to 'Add Before / After / Replacing Section'
  • Picture Frames:
  • Add Picture Frame property 'Clear Picture Frame Background on Populate'
  • Converting a Picture Frame to Curves loses properties
  • TOC:
  • Fix duplicate entries in TOC when heading paragraph spans frames
  • Preflight:
  • Don't preflight check for missing fonts inside pass-through PDFs

New in Affinity Publisher 1.9.0.742 Beta (Sep 18, 2020)

  • New Features and Improvements:
  • We are still very early in the beta process for 1.9. We have additional features we expect to integrate over the next few weeks.
  • PDF Bookmarks:
  • Bookmarks provide a listing of flagged content that are present within a PDF document.
  • Bookmarks can be added via the Anchor Panel or automatically generated from a Table of Contents.
  • PDF Passthrough:
  • It is now possible to flag placed PDF files for PDF passthrough. When such a file is encountered during PDF export it can be embedded verbatim in the output PDF ensuring 100% fidelity.
  • PSD flattened image representation:
  • When placing a PSD we now use the flattened bitmap representation in the file rather than interpreting the file content ourselves. This will generally give better results on output.
  • Convert Pixel Layer to Image Node / Picture Frame:
  • It is now possible to convert a Pixel Layer to an Image or Picture Frame plus content.
  • Initial Text Baseline Advance:
  • Text frames now support an ‘Initial Advance’ property. This can be helpful to keep text aligned with other page elements and ensure predictable consistent layout.
  • Path Text:
  • Additional controls now make it possible to avoid flowing text onto both sides of a curve. Additionally it is now possible to hide overflowing Path Text if desired.
  • Configurable Bleed and Margin Guide Colours:
  • The colours used for Bleed and Margin guides are configurable by the user and saved with the document.
  • Known Issues with New Features:
  • The following lists some of the more important known issues we currently have with new the features:
  • PDF Passthrough: Crash exporting specific PDF - If you have crashes exporting we would love to hear about them ;)
  • PDF Passthrough: Preflight warns of passthrough pdf when it is set to interpret. Some preflight checks drill into PDFs flagged for passthrough and report spurious errors.
  • Convert Pixel Layer to Image Node: Converted image resources can end up with no name
  • Path Text: Path text overflows on wrong side, hiding overflow hides all text

New in Affinity Publisher 1.8.5.703 (Aug 24, 2020)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • Fixed many tablet input problems (by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3).
  • Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode
  • (NOTE: previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored).
  • Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool

New in Affinity Publisher 1.8.5.703 Beta (Aug 13, 2020)

  • Fixed tablet input problems by reverting the default input method to be Low Precision mode, the same as in 1.8.3.
  • Added tablet input preference (in Tools section) to opt-in to High Precision mode, or Windows Ink mode (previous command line options --legacy-wintab and --disable-wintab are now ignored).
  • Fixed cursor disappearing following keyboard shortcuts that display dialogs, while using a brush tool
  • Fixed raster Crop Tool units multiplying incorrectly on the context toolbar

New in Affinity Publisher 1.8.4.687 Beta (Jul 22, 2020)

  • Stability and Performance improvements

New in Affinity Publisher 1.8.4.663 Beta (Jul 1, 2020)

  • Improvements and Fixes:
  • General:
  • Fixed recent regression when saving Linked Image placeholders which was causing large document files
  • Recoloured K-only images with transparency lose their transparency
  • (Win) Can now import .afassets file via drag drop
  • Text:
  • Avoid generating infinite filler text when leading is zero
  • Further improvements for ideographic line breaks, mainly for quote-marks
  • Allow OpenType kerning between glyphs with different settings (if they are the same font and size)
  • Fixed 'Indent To Here' not working if lines are broken by drop cap or wrap shape
  • Fixes for line-breaker around Fixed Spaces
  • Import / Export:
  • IDML Import - Text frame corners are now scaled correctly
  • IDML Import - Fixed instances where text wrap path could fail to import, or be scaled incorrectly
  • IDML Import - Generic OpenType features not being imported from IDML file
  • IDML Import - Effects settings not scaled correctly on master page items
  • IDML Import - En-Space in numbered list imported as a 0
  • IDML Import - Elements could be positioned incorrectly in some instances
  • IDML Import - Question mark in file path breaks link during the import
  • IDML Import - Initial Words not scaling correctly
  • IDML Import - Placed EPS files are slightly clipped
  • PDF Import - Better handling of restricted files
  • PDF Export - Fixed issues exporting to PDF/X-4 with content with embedded profiles
  • PDF Export - Export could fail for glyph ids that happen to match surrogate pair values
  • Index:
  • Index Find - match words with following punctuation
  • Partial loss of parent topics when adding pages from file

New in Affinity Publisher 1.8.3.641 (Jul 1, 2020)

  • Fixes & Improvements:
  • General:
  • Fix for autosave/recover not working on anything but new documents.
  • Fixed issues with live filters making layers disappear
  • Fix for embedded documents not rendering at specific zoom levels
  • Fix for crash and incorrect placement moving a group into or out of a Picture Frame
  • Boolean Operation fixes
  • Fixed possible crash saving documents containing embedded documents if there was a colourspace mismatch
  • Via Layer Panel, linked documents were being opened as embedded and edits were not being committed to the linked file
  • Shift-Invert selection behaviour with the Move Tool was broken
  • Resource Manager 'Collect' could collect multiple copies of the same placed image
  • (Mac) In the New Document dialog, 'Show in Finder' wasn't working for top level folder
  • (Win) Font Manager could be launched with Resource Manager
  • (Win) Fixed crash cycling through justification options in a table
  • (Win) Fixed crash opening empty (0 Kb) files
  • (Win) Floating (undocked) panels were collapsing too small and clipping content
  • (Win) Create artboard missing from New Document dialog in Designer Persona
  • Page Management:
  • Fixes for page operations that required spreads to be split
  • Page objects could be incorrectly rescaled when master page was resized
  • Text:
  • Filler text is now copied to clipboard as the expanded text rather than as '<FillerText>'
  • Unpinning a node can scale it incorrectly
  • Fixed crash copying mixture of filler text and regular TextTool
  • Fixed changing text capitalization without a selection causing a crash.
  • Text > Upper Case could crash if the selected text was already Upper Case
  • Copy-paste Arabic text from .docx comes as Chinese in Publisher
  • (Win) Some lines weren't correctly indented when using right align and right indent
  • Import:
  • Empty (0 Kb) files could crash the import process
  • Export:
  • PDF Export was not honouring gradient map's colour space
  • PDF Export images downsampling to the wrong DPI under certain circumstances
  • PDF Export was failing with placed documents in LAB colourspace
  • PDF Export of placed images makes more effort to preserve their colour space
  • PDF Export fix for export of objects with empty clipping paths