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It’s a common issue when I send my commercial printer a pdf that is in spreads not pages because I forgot to change the setting back again. Very frustrating.

But it doesn’t unfortunately. AKA the previously mentioned, Export as Spreads is always returned, regardless of any preset or last used choice.

I've attached a four-page document to demonstrate the issue. Page 2 has label master applied Page 3 has blank master applied. As you can see it correctly inserts the blank MP elements (the black box) but also applies the ghost frame of the label master and the overflow error is produced. Overflow bug.afpub

I've done this all the time in APub and it makes sense when you want elements like page numbers on one side only a two-page spread. If as you theorise, there is a restriction that facing page MPs can only be applied to both pages, then AP would not allow you to have different MPs on facing pages would it? As you can see from the screenshot, APub does allow you to have facing pages with different MPs - which is what I would expect.

I've uninstalled the apps and installed the EXE versions. In Windows 11 the Icon view displays images but there is nothing in the preview pane for Affinity-associated applications. PDF's are previewing fine. I've reset File Explorer but still no preview

Master page set up for facing pages Apply MP to left hand page only Right hand page is clear so not showing any elements from MP as expected Issue: Preflight shows overflowing text frame on right hand page. Select OTF message and ghost of right hand MP is shown. So even though the MP is not applied to the right hand page it is stillbeing applied to the page according to the preflight.

1. The preview pane 2. I can probably find these.

@Dan C Can you confirm that in order to preview Affinity files in File Explorer, I need to uninstall my Affinity Apps and install the EXE versions? Presumably my settings and assets will be preserved?

YMMV For me having a base line grid for the body text style (only) works. For everything else it’s off.

When I print locally and need to print booklets, I export as pdf and use the print booklet option.

Baseline grid when correctly set up work well for the body text of magazines I produce. They improve the consistency of multi-frame layouts.

Not it doesn’t find paragraph breaks. I’d assumed that this was a known bug but clearly not. I’ll start a new bug report/thread rather than hijacking this one.

@walt.farrell @R C-R I thought this was already registered as a bug but given not, point taken and my apologies. I’ll start a new thread.

That topic was but this one isn’t.

Correct. If I copy and paste the same text into MS Word, the paragraph break is found.

Goto Find->Special characters->Paragraph Break add + at the end and replace with Paragraph Break I find APu unable to find paragraph breaks with Find and Replace. I thought this was a bug? Ref

I am finding the inability of APu to find paragraph breaks in Find and Replace very frustrating but I see that this thread related to Datamerge only so I may be barking up the wrong tree,,,

I see this was resolved in a different thread- you had two columns selected.

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Could you use margins as a pseudo bleed in APh?

I pin shortcuts to the start menu and group them accordingly. All the Affinity apps are together along with other relevant ones like my scanner.

Thank you. I look forward to seeing this implemented.

I got caught out again when my commercial printer asked why the pdf I sent him was in spreads not pages. A plea for this long standing issue to be fixed please. Issue: When exporting a pdf, the export as spreads rather than pages is the default. This happens regardless of a preset being set. In addition, the last used setting is ignored. It always defaults to spreads.

I am still on Windows 10 so I cannot comment. My Dell is 34” wide so the utility makes it really easy to align multiple windows and applications.

This feature comes with the Dell widescreen monitor application that is free to download and allows you to divide the screen into different areas.