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I am having the same problem. . . I am trying to change the size of an illustration to fit a very specific document size (not one of the presets) and when I scale the artboard using the handles it just cuts off my design (everything doesn't shift proportionately). File - Document Setup is also greyed out. Any help on what I'm doing wrong? Many thanks!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Old Bruce!! A very newbie mistake I'm sure, but I was completely stumped. Many thanks!! I so appreciate your help. I was pulling my hair out.

But if I move the word "Solstice" ever so slightly to the right and let go, here's where it goes -- all the way to the bottom of Layers.

Okay, here is where my text "Solstice" shows up in my layers panel

Thank you SO MUCH, Walt. Okay, so "not to worry" if it doesn't show, the bleed is still there, right? Also, yes, I do have other objects floating above the artboard. . . is this a problem once I export? Do I need to drag everything into the artboard? I confess, I'm finding the layers system in Affinity very confusing. I'm also confused why every time I modify the placement of (say) a text layer, it automatically drops to the bottom of the layers panel. Like, stay put, already!! Many thanks for helping me diagnose this!

I'm designing a book cover that has a gradient. The cover image overlaps the artboard nicely all the way through the bleed area where there's no transparency applied. But as the gradient comes in, there's a hard edge along the document line, with nothing at all showing in the bleed area. It should fade nicely all across the image, including up into the bleed. What can I do to fix this? Many thanks!

This has been super-helpful. I'm new to Affinity and, like others above, am migrating from Illustrator, so I'm used to that. I have been spinning my wheels for two days trying to get a clear understanding of Affinity layers. Every time I made some small modification (for example, changing the font or spelling of a text element), it would drop that to the bottom of the Layers panel and I'd have to drag it up the Layers to where I wanted it. I could NOT figure out why that was happening. Very frustrating I did see the layers choice for "insertion" (default or top), but that didn't seem to make a difference. I'm betting this is my problem. . . I was thinking of the ELEMENT (text, a photo, etc.) as being a layer (because it SHOWS in the layers panel) while in reality Affinity doesn't consider it a layer of its own. Still don't understand why it drops to the bottom after any change, though. But sticking it in a layer will probably help. Maybe if nothing else the Affinity folks can post a short video for Illustrator converts explaining the different strategy needed. Thanks so much for this thread.