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Peter Pan

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  1. 21 hours ago, haakoo said:

    Well call me stupid,oh please don't,I know allready I am.

    But why do we need or use spreads if it isn't used in the printing business?

    Couldn't we just use pages.

    Is it because the other programs use it and this makes it more familiar for potential customers coming from these programs?

    Spreads are necessary because you can realize layouts on two sides. (see picture)
    On single pages, such a thing would be difficult to realize.

    testspread.jpg

  2. 21 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

    You've made some suggestions. Unless someone has an idea for an alternative, a suggestion does not really require any respones from the users (such as me).

    And Serif generally does not comment on feature requests/suggestions, in case you did not know that.

    But if I were doing it, I would scale the photos so they are fully contained within the page, not bleeding outside of it.

    But I'm curious about something: with spreads (2-page) I would only expect bleed around the outer edges, not across the gutter, as I would expect those 2 pages to be printed on a single sheet, which should not need bleeds at the gutter.

    Is my understanding incorrect? (I don't have any experience, really, using bleeds, and most of my experience is with single pages, not facing pages.)

    My printer expects single pages with all around bleed. But I would like to put the layout on double pages, because sometimes objects go over two pages (which works fine when exporting to single pages, by the way).
    Even if I scale a photo accurately, a part of it appears in the bleed of the opposite page.

  3. First of all, many thanks to Serif for Affinity Publisher. You did a great job and I love the software.

    However, I miss two features that are enormously important and prevent me from saying goodbye to InDesign:

    On the one hand, I do not have the "Data Merge" function that many users often want. I do not need to go into that.

    On the other hand (and this is really annoying), the function "Split Spread" is missing in the "Pages" panel. But this is very important if you want to place borderless or full-page photos.

    An example: Almost every professional printing company requires a 3mm bleed around each side. If I place a photo on the full page, the bleed of the photo on the opposite side appears during export. (see photo)

    In InDesign this is solved so that you can split individual double pages and then placed on the split page the photo with bleed. (see photo)
    That makes no problems in the export.

    A smaller feature that is missing is that you cannot export the bleed mark but only the cut mark when exporting. But I think I can live with that for now. (I hope my printers too)

    bleed.jpg

    seiten_id.jpg

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