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I do not see that. The bleedbox and trimbox are both the original A5 size. Of course same 3 mm is added to each side but page objects are cut at 0 in the inner part. It is task of the imposition software to remove unneeded parts.

I guess you can draw your lines with pen tool and apply threshold adjustment layer above. Note that you have to have a solid layer (fill, image or pixel) below lines as threshold does not apply to transparency.

Pen tool in Photo makes bezier curves... you can use Pixel tool to make pixelated lines. You can find it as Paint Brush variant (click the little triangle at the bottom corner of Paint Brush Tool icon at the Toolbox).

Not true:

I tried to develop the file in AP: Not sure if it is much better... but I do think it is about sharp enough.

You can also open one image and drag the rest from a folder in to an open document (if you do not need to do any automatic alignment in which case use stack). You can also drag layers from open documents to another one.

Hmmm... when I copy-paste from Designer to Indesign I get OK vector art... it is just not editable in InDesign.

Usually creating styles is the way to go, just after document setup.

I think that the exposed steel does not look fully natural. Would not matter so much if the wear effect were in smaller areas. Good looking machinery though

I think spread view is just PDF reader app functionality. It is though possible to force initial view to a document with Acrobat app.

OK, I made a little mistake. The whole issue is artboard related, artboard bleeds are not modifiable in Publisher, when in normal placed Designer documents they are. This may be considered as bug as they definitely should behave the same.

And .afdesign placed in Publisher, first with TrimBox, then copied and changed to BleedBox: (File is not scaled, bleedbox just shows more content. Could have selected more obvious graphic...)

Mac version AD document with bleeds:

Probably too small a market and there are some good tools already. See https://alexjohnlucas.com/type/software and https://typedrawers.com/discussion/858/should-i-switch-from-glyphs

Yes, if you choose Trim box, you cannot retrieve content in the bleed area. So why not set Page box to BleedBox? You can manually then crop extra with crop tool if needed. It just does not work vice versa.

Also, you can temporarily remove purple lines by pressing SPACE.

[ -glyph in my layout is ALT + 8. SHIFT + ALT + 8 just is not the same as SHIFT + [.

There should not be any special trick getting basic system readable preview images out of affinity files. Maybe @Ben can help here.

But you lose local formatting that way. Not good.

But those keys are not universally usable – not all layouts have them. Of course, if we have keys to access, we can also reassign them at will, Affinity preferences allow that.

Or is there some new user restriction in this forum software?

That is a complicated sentence.... I did use text editor in PageMaker and early InDesign, and the reason was that editing and tagging text in layout was too - s - l - o - w -. After macs got faster it was no problem. Now, I can understand there are users who prefer to edit text in editor. For some workflows it may be ideal. And an editor window is not really problem for other users as it goes away when you do not need it.

Or maybe the fact that importing a Word file brings along its style tags. That is usually a nuisance – basic text import should discard original styles and keep only local formatting. In very controlled workflows mapping Word styles to Publisher styles may be useful, but keeping imported Word styles as they are: never.

If you place a pixel image to existing Affinity document it will be placed as "encapsulated" "image layer", i.e. you can scale, rotate, shear, adjust with adjustment layers and mask it as you will and it will keep original image data intact. Transformations will be calculated only when exported, or when flattened. This is called non-destructive editing. All operations though cannot be done non-destructively. In that case layer will be rasterised, i.e. calculated to pixels as they are according to document settings, when such operation is done. See if you can find threads about differences between image and pixel layers.

You need to print booklet. See https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Publishing/print.html?title=Print and