Petar Petrenko

Why Designer does not properly displays an object that spans on 2 or more artboards? The object is shown at the top of all layers only if I move it on the top of the Artboard3 layer, but when I want to reposition it -- only a part of it is shown. Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug? over 3 arts.afdesign

If you create covers, ads, trifolds and other kind of spreads, you can use not-facing pages, but if you have spreads inside a book -- the pages of the book must be facing pages and the spreads should be, too, combination of facing pages.

What about this idea: regardless the pages in the book are facing or not-facing they should be exported in PDF as single pages, but... if there are spread(s) they should be exported as spread(s), so the printer could get the idea how pages should be prepared for printing?

Yes, it shouldn't. It is a bug and Affinity will take care of it during this beta cycle.

A-ha... the same problem occurs with facing pages, too.

My recommendation to you is to use facing pages when working with spreads, because in that case you have all options you want: spreads and pages.

...and this is with no-spreads:

With facing pages.

Here is mine dialog box:

First PDF then print.

Choose "All Spreads" from "Area" when exporting PDF.

No, they are independent from the slug area.

No, it wouldn't. By adding 2 mm you will only make bleed area bigger, but the crop marks will be at the same position. Crop marks are positioned partly in the bleed area and in InDesign you can change their distance from the page so they can be positioned even outside bleed area.

I think it will be well suited for Designer.

It would be more intuitive (and much faster) if we can reposition pages by drag and drop instead with absolute values.

I just wonder, why manipulating pages isn't as easy as artboards in Designer?

It depends of the software how big page you can create within. I think Quark allows about 4m x 4m page so you can calculate how many pages (depending of the book size) you can put in a row.

Yes and the pages always go in pairs, so the numbering will be OK having in mind your earlier posts.

I expect that this multi page spreads will be used for book covers and booklets -- not inside a book. But, if so, an empty page must be added for the sake of the page numbering. Just imagine you put an image on the odd page on glossy paper and the next page should be blank. No other way.

When creating PDF with crop marks from 3 page spread in Publisher, there are no crop marks for the spine as you can see from the attachments (compare with InDesign example). The InDesign file is the first one with text in Times New Roman:

Yes, that is what I was searching for. Thanks, Mike.

Well, Affinity is so near to drag and drop creation of multi page spreads. They need just to allow the page to stay there instead of moving it elsewhere.

But when I try that, I get a blue vertical line next to the page (or between pages) which symbolize like it can be created with drag and drop.

What kind of spread is this?

I can't do it.