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I will keep my eye on this issue! Hopefully they fix it soon! I’ll keep copying and pasting the + from my notes app in the meantime! Thank you

OMG you fixed my weird text issue! Thank you! I’m using a Smart Keyboard for my iPad Pro!

Hi everyone! I’m using Affinity Designer for iPad, v2. I can’t work out why my text is changing from black to white when I place a coloured box underneath it! See photo attached. Also, weirdly, my shift key isn’t working in text mode (only in Affinity) so I can’t insert a + into text boxes. Weird right!!! Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Jemma :)

OHHHHH I GOT IT!!!!! Thankyou so much, you have SAVED my sanity!!!!!! 😄

Hiya! Thanks for your suggestion. I tried that. This is what happened - see the screen recording. Thoughts? IMG_1443.MP4

Hi everyone, Someone please please please help me. I am creating a Polynesian pattern for a wedding invitation. The invitation is to be hot foil stamped so the file needs to be vector based not bitmap/image based. The areas that are black are the only things to be foiled gold, the background will be black cardstock. SEE PHOTO. I want to create white see-through boxes (that aren’t foiled) in the middle of the fat line. Can someone please explain how to do this? I tried putting it the mode as erase but when I export and set the rasterise option to nothing, the boxes aren’t showing up (as I have them set to 100% black (CMYK) plus the erase function). Thanks

OH MY GOODNESS YOU ARE A LIFESAVER. Seriously thank you so so so so much

It’s disappointing because I used to be able to fix this issue in Designer desktop by using the PageBox function as discussed here. Thank you for trying

Hi @markw, do you know if this function is available in Designer for iPad? I used to use it on Designer desktop all the time but I can’t find it on the ipad! Thanks

Hiya, do you know if this function is available on Affinity Designer for ipad? I can’t find it anywhere! I used to import PDFs onto a blank page in Designer for desktop all the time and then use the PageBox function but I can’t find it on the ipad.

Ok, I tried clip to canvas a few times but it didn’t change anything. Any other ideas? I posted some photos above so you can see what I’m talking about. I want to be able to embed multiple PDFs to a page (like business cards for example) and then print them and trim them myself. But obviously can’t do if it doesn’t show the crop marks or bleed!!! Arghhh

I just dragged and dropped the PDF into the new document! This is what I used to do in Designer desktop. What do you mean by unclipping the canvas? When I export the original PDF and view it in files, I can see it has bleed and crop marks, but then when I drag that into a new page in a new document, the bleed and crop marks disappear. Here are some pics. You can see a) the original file, then b) exported with crop marks and bleed and then c) placed on a new document without the crop marks or bleed. Basically, I want to set two up on a page so I can print easily.

I want to export numerous slices with bleed and crop marks through export persona but I can’t work out how to create a custom preset with these settings! I know how to do a custom export through the regular way but it becomes a very long process when exporting 20+ files! Does anyone know how to do this?

Hi everyone, I have embedded a PDF with crop marks into my document on Designer for iPad however is doesn’t show the crop marks! Is there a way to do this on the iPad? The PDF has bleed and crop marks and I need those when the file is embedded on a new page. I’ve recently started using Designer for iPad, instead of Designer for Mac. I recall there being a PageBox function in the tool bar where you could choose between CropBox, MediaBox and Artbox. But I can’t find this on the iPad anywhere. please help! thanks!

@chelcod after your post, I opened up a new artboard with one of my invitation suites and tried out doing a bleed and exporting and I worked it out! I’m now able to set bleed on all docs within the artboard , place images & export with bleed and crop marks. Just curious to see if you worked it out too?

Hiya @chelcod! i was having this exact same issue when I started this thread. @toltec showed me how to achieve a bleed - although I wasn’t using an artboard, i was just using a regular document setup. Here’s what I had to do: 1. set your document size to the proper size (in your case, 10” by 7”). 2. Then select all the layers within your document and stretch them out past the document size to be 10.125” and 7.125” (that’s if you’ve set your bleed to .125.) 3. Make sure your bleed is set to .125. 4. When printing, turn on bleed and crop marks and export. If you are confused by what I mean, go and open my test file above when I posted “I did it” - you’ll see what I mean about stretching the layers out past the document background to create the bleed room. Edit— I actually remember now reading above that @toltec said bleeds and crops don’t work on an artboard. Could you just set up a regular document instead? i remember the thing I wasn’t doing was making my images on the document bigger than the document size (which is step 2 above) which is why my bleed wasn’t working - you need to have the images sit slightly outside your document size to act as the bleed area. Does this help?

@JimmyJack OMG I DID IT!! Is what I did right? final test.afdesign final test.pdf

Ok @toltec, is this right?? it looks pretty good to me! Template for invites (Toltec).afdesign

This is amazing @toltec! I am definitely going to give this a go. If I can create a template like this, then I only need to drop in my invites and tadaaa!! Ok, I will have a play and see how I go. Thank you

OMG @JimmyJack what you've created is awesome!! So, to achieve what you achieved, I tried the following: 1. Created a new document the size of the actual invite size (12.9cmx18cm) 2. Inserted the invite (with the extra room for the bleed) onto the new document 3. Added bleed in the document setup tab 4. Exported as PDF with bleed and crop marks included. I still didn't get the crop marks to sit inside the bleed area I swear I am going mad haha

@toltec that file you gave me with the crop marks inserted is great..... how did you do it? All I see is lots of "rectangle" layers and I have no idea how you actually achieved that! If I can preset pages like that, I will love you forever! For the invites, I basically need, on one A4 page, to be able to insert two invites (13.2cmx18.3cm) which include a .15cm bleed edge and have the crop marks there so that when I crop them, the final printed invites are 12.9cm x 18cm (obviously trimming off .15cm from each side). If you could tell me how you were able to insert those crop marks, that would be amazing then I can set up pages for all my documents (RSVPs, thank you cards, etc etc) and then just drop them in to the affinity file.

@JimmyJack in addition to your post, I tried just playing with one invite and seeing how I could get a bleed edge with crop marks to the actual size, but everytime I exported, the crop marks were outside the bleed! I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I actually have some RSVPs, 1. Firstly, I created a new document the size of the invites including the bleed edge. The size of the invite is actually 12.9cm x 18cm. So including the 1.5mm bleed, the size goes up to 13.2cm by 18.3cm. So I created the document size using the 13.2cm x 18.3cm. 2. Then I inserted the invite, which covers the whole document size (it's preset at 13.2 x 18.3). 3. Then I went into document set up and set the bleed to 0.15cm (15mm). 4. Then I exported using PDF function. I went into the more tab and ticked "include bleeds" and "include crop marks", thinking that it will take into account the .15cm off each side and insert the crop marks .15cm inside the picture on each side. 5. Then I exported and saved. When I opened the PDF document in Preview, the crop marks are still outside the bleed area!! (I double clicked on the picture so it turned pink so I could see the picture area). 6. Here's my file so you can have a look. I don't know what I'm doing wrong!! Single invite test.afdesign

@JimmyJack nah they're two different invites (they are addressed to two different couples). I created an A4 artboard (because I want to eventually print on A4 with two different invites on the same page), then I inserted the two different invites but then I couldn't work out how to get crop marks for both invites with a bleed edge. From what @toltec was saying, it sounds like I can't put crop marks on an dartboard when theres two or more pieces. @toltec has posted a AD file of an A4 page with crop marks already inserted, now I just need to work out how the hell he did that!!!

Toltec, this is what I mean. I've used the margins as the bleed edge to show you what I mean, see how the black lines run off the page?

The line leading up to "Kate" and the line leading away from "Luke" are to run off the page so that when I trim them, they definitely go to the edge of the page and don't stop before the edge of the page. I was advised by my printer that I need a bleed for these invites to ensure that the black lines definitely run off the page because any movement in the printing can cause the line to stop before the trimmed area. This actually happened on one of the samples that I tried printing.