deannak

I love the Publisher product, but I'm having problems getting one of my export files to work properly. The printer specs require a bleed 0.125" on top, outside & bottom, with no bleed in the center. Instead, that gutter area needs to have 0.125" of non-ink white space. The gutter is not added to the page dimensions, it's to be part of the 6x9" trim size. I'm working with 2-page spreads in Publisher, then exporting as single pages on PDF.
(1) I set up document with bleeds on 3 sides, 0 on inside. I added my own white strip layer to ensure 0.125" non-ink gutter area in the center. But when I export it to PDF (and check Include bleeds), it comes out with the inside bleed included even though I set it to 0.  The page size of the PDF includes that additional 0.125", and I end up with a white strip that's twice as wide as I wanted (i.e. my white strip + the added bleed).
(2) So... I tried subtracting the bleed size and giving it a document of 5.875 x 9", since it's adding the extra 0.125" bleed anyway. Now I get the correct page dimensions, but the inside bleed area still gets filled with bleed from color images. 
Publisher 1.7.1, Mac OSX Mojave 10.14.5. Issue is reproducible on a new file.
Hopefully this makes sense. Please let me know if there's something I can do differently to get this to work. 

Thanks!   -  Deanna

Hi Jim -
I eventually discovered that the inner bleed 0 worked OK when I exported ALL pages together.  Whenever I tried a range of pages, it had a problem.
Hope that helps, and good luck with it!    -  Deanna.

The correct solution is for Affinity to fix this so I (we) can select the first word of the paragraph and modify that.

Isn't it simpler to insert a zero width space before the first word to made bold? Then you can easily select the text to be changed without changing the number.

 

Hi Jim -
I eventually discovered that the inner bleed 0 worked OK when I exported ALL pages together.  Whenever I tried a range of pages, it had a problem.
Hope that helps, and good luck with it!    -  Deanna.

Thank you Walt!!  
That was indeed the problem.  My layer stack was the same as the sequence on the page, i.e. title above subtitle.  Once I changed the layers to have subtitle above title, it worked just like I wanted.  
Thank you so much for your help!   -  Deanna.
 

Me too!!  
 

Hi Pauls -
Hallelujah!!  I've got my files back!  Now I can sleep again!  Thank you, thank you! (-:
Now going forward, it seems like the problem is that I edited some images outside of Publisher, using Affinity Photo.  I've done that before, and it was fine, but this time it caused Publisher to shut down, perhaps because of a size change.  
I use the same images in the print book (via Publisher) and also for an ebook and website (both outside of Publisher).  So I was planning to do layout work in Publisher, then go back & fix up images in Photo, then incorporate final photos in all platforms.  If this is going to crash Publisher, I need a new workflow.  What is the recommended way around this problem?  
Thanks again!!!   -  Deanna.

Thank you Thomas!  I think your workaround suggestion could give me a way forward with this.  
I also appreciate the tips about putting the white strip onto a master that I can then place on top of the other pages.  I recently read in this forum (such an excellent resource!) of somebody suggesting to do the same with page numbers that you want to show on top of images, so it seems like I could put the page # and white strip onto the same master.  
Thanks so much!  -  Deanna.