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Hi PaulEC I realised the size issue and that it effectively produces spreads at A3 size or thereabouts. When attempting to print though it still prints to A4 but as two pages across landscape. I will try the 'facing pages' option and hope that does it. The first and last page would print A4 and the remaining spreads would fit the spreads landscape within the A4 sheet. Two small pages running down the width of the page. The facing page issue should do it and I knew it must be easy, but it is not quite so easy to find answers on Affinity Publisher as compared to any Adobe product. The six pages shown across three spreads need to print to six pages but had been printing on 3 A4 sheets. Thank you for letting me know. Regards. edit: success. simply the facing pages option when creating the document. Wonderful. Thank you

Hi I am struggling with photocopying a paper form which is around 40 pages in length, then editing each page, then printing this off as if it was a 40 page word document. No spreads. No double pages on each A4 sheet. Just a run of A4 pages one after another but with my PDF software reader I can print off using double sided printing and am happy with it. So Ithought I'd create a document in Affinity Publisher, add the pages and print it, but it does this with the front and back full size a4 and the rest as two A5 pages per A4 sheet. I do not want to print two pages on A4 sheets as a spread. I need to create a 40 page PDF from the edited scans of the original. I need it as a PDF so that I can print easily a full document. Today I had to do manual printing and flipping of each and every page. There has to be something I'm missing. Each scanned image that is edited in Photo, I save as both a PDF and Jpeg, never knowing which I'm going to need. But I tend to use images more than PDFs. I want to be able to create, for example a 40 page document, printing each page on its own full side of A4. My preference is then for double sided printing taking 20 sheets of A4. I need the format to print like in the image on the left. Not the right. I'm sure this must be easy but it just seems so difficult in Publisher. Any advice warmly appreciated. Thank you all.

Thank you all. I used Notmyfault's affinity file. Works very well. I'm sure there are several ways of doing this but this will be very handy to keep around. Still no idea why my file with just background image (original scan) plus just a threshold adjustment wasn't working. But I've got something that works and I thank you all for your help. Take care all.

I think it is beyond me. The image I have is a scan of a letter that previously been scanned. It looks like when it was scanned before it hadn't been set flat on glass of scanner. The letter was folded twice. So I think???? That it not being on glass correctly introduced grey tone into image. When that was printed it had a grey tone around the central section of letter. The original is elsewhere and not obtainable. But I have a scan of that poorly done scanned printout. So that's all I have. It may not be a scan of a scan but simply the jpg output from a scan which introduced problems. AP or photoshop appears to be seeing it pixel by pixel and each individual pixel being just as black as any other. Just density changes how black it looks to me. I'm going to forget it and put it down as 'poor quality original'. It's legible so the information aspect is fine. It's taught me that my eye can lie. What software sees could be so different. I can't put any more of the letter up for privacy issues. Going to have to knuckle down on AP though because it looks extremely capable. In some ways I was glad to see PS couldn't do it either. It's just a case of rubbish in rubbish out. Thanks again for all the advice. It's saved me putting more time in.

Hi Thomaso Actually the threshold wouldn't work. It looks as if just words showing until you zoom in and all the noise comes back. It is a personal letter so I have removed anything I didn't want seen. The letter is a scan of a scan. All I have left of it basically. There are several of them that go together and I had planned on cleaning them up and joining them together to form a single letter to print off again. Here is the issue I start with. I am really new to APhoto but haven't been able, yet, to do it in photoshop, which I'd need to start subscription for again to save as PNG or JPG. It is probably not worth the effort as it is entirely legible but just 'scruffy' as it is. But I was surprised not to find any tutorial or main articles on this as I would assume it affects many people. Thank you

Thank you both. I will try to follow those. Thomas, yes, only when zoomed in does text and individual pixels in the 'halftone' around it look the same. In the letter itself the text and halftone looks just like near black text and grey tone. Nothing looks 'dotty' as such. But when blown up so much you can see it is 'seeing' the same darkness in both text and tone. I've had lots of letters with lesser issues and the simple 'remove white background' did these fine with a single click. Can you tell me why on exporting with a layer (original letter image) and a threshold adjustment layer above. This looks fine on screen. Why it ignores what is on screen and prints out original image as if threshold adjustment wasn't there. Can you apply it in some way. I can't find any flatten image like in photoshop. But merge visible doesn't work. Also what is the toggle on off key for marching ants please? Much appreciated.

Hi Been struggling all night with this. More used to photoshop but fed up with paying continuously for something I don't use all the time. So gone to Affinity Photo. I have a series of letters. These have been scanned in the past and degraded. This has left the text washed out with a half tone type effect behind. I need the text removed but it is all handwritten and can't use any text recognition for it. So, on many I have been able to use filter and erase white background. But not when it is like this. I'm not used to threshold as adjustment layers. But I can get an adjustment layer > threshold to show a plain white background and the very dark text. Doesn't look particularly natural but still, it removes all the half tone dotting you see in image. Until I export it and then all the original documents half toning is still there. I don't know if it is possible to finalise a png or jpg as it looks in affinity tool itself where the dark text is stark on a white background while viewing the threshold adjustment layer above the background layer. I hope it makes some sense. Hard to explain. I just need to get the handwritten text separated from all the extraneous tone around it. Flood tool didn't work. If I try to use tonal or color selection based on the far blacker handwriting, it still selects the rest of the tone. Dragging sliders down to 1 still selects everything and going down to zero selects nothing. Tried selecing tonal ranges and selects everything. This obviously looks worse than on paper but I want it to look more like it once did originally and not where it has been scanned and rescanned. It actually looks like you had smudged the ink around writing. So not so bad. I assume it is because Photo is seeing the individual dots as same colour, even though text looks darker as more closer pixel grouping on letters. Trying to erase all the rubbish on letters like this is too difficult and time consuming to do manually. Completely baffled. Many thanks

Yes, John and Cara, AP is Affinity Photo. I'd forgotten Publisher existed and never realised that Serif had added Affinity to the Publisher name. Finding the info on the Affinity Publisher was easy but not Affinity Photo. Haven't used any DTP programs for years and no idea if it is still known as DTP desktop publishing as so much has moved on. Tracking, leading and all the rest are of no interest to me any more as only use basic stuff nowadays. Probably pick up Affinity Publisher once things get back to normal cash wise after lockdown. Not expensive but not absolutely necessary at moment. What I'm after can be done using bog standard stuff by removing all margins and allowing pages I'm dropping in to take up full area. Mainly for online use. The documents I want to capture as PDFs are already created; hard copies; with branded background taken up full width of A4 sheet and no margins. I want to be able to pass them on and to print out correctly on a standard laser printer for anyone who has them. Without there being strangely large gaps in between pages that could force printing to occur in wrong place. Probably wouldn't but could. The benefit of starting your own docs is that you have control of what you are doing from the start; no placement, no cropping or resizing, nothing. Affinity photo brought the 3 pages I wanted to use into doc as 3 png images; 3 pages of an A4 letter I'd scanned; but had laid them out horizontally across a A4 height canvas; the issue I would have is that it was nigh on impossible to tell where a page's gutter would begin and end. So, I had to create selections exactly A4 size and rip them out again and save as both PNG and PDF as individual pages. Better than nothing. Photoshop has a command upon opening up several pages in one go where it allows you to group as a single document and arrange ready for a vertically flowing PDF document. Got to get used to Affinity now though. Thank you both so much.

New to AP and have been used to creating multi page PDFs in PS on export. Can it be done in AP? I don't know if multiple single page png, jpg or pdf can be added to a single document and exported as a multi page PDF. Every time I open them they simply open as several individual pieces of work and I can't think of how to bring them together. Obvioulsy, the use is so that upon viewing or printing the files are all individual pages at A4 or letter size. Any advice warmly received. So lost at the moment. Lovely program though and haven't used any Serif stuff since Publishe 98 or something along those lines, so a long time. Just fed up of costs involved with Adobe. Many thanks.