PaintNut

I am confused. The problem that I am having is in Publisher which IS a layout app. Are you saying that the Live Vignette Filter from the Photo Persona in Publisher shouldn't work or that it cuts off the bleed if used?

When I make a selection from a shape and then invert the selection, the selection just disappears. Here is a video I made showing what I am talking about. Affinity Photo - Invert Pixel Selection Issue.mp4

What my grunge overlay layer at 60% looks like in my design, is not what the output of the PDF export looks like. What you see is NOT what you get.

When I export to pdf, what I see is not what I get.

So long as I had a Live Vignette filter from the Photo Persona in publisher, when I would export, the bleed would be missing.

On my business cards, the layer that is causing the disappearing bleed is the Live Vignette filter layer from the Photo Persona. When I disable that, my bleeds show on export. My problem is NOT solved. I want that vignette to work. So my workaround was to go into the Photo Persona and hide everything except for the background elements and the Live Vignette layers and then use Merge Visible. I was then able to get rid of the Live Vignette filter layer.

I am aware of what artboards are in Designer. I am having these issues in Publisher, not Designer.

Thanks Brian. So, I am not using "Artboards". Is that what Publisher calls a document? I will see if someone offers some helpful advice on that thread. One of the commenters said that they were NOT having issues when exporting to PDF. That certainly isn't my experience. I will have a look in there and see if I can find a work around for the business cards.

So my last 3 projects in the last 4 days have all been blocked by some kind of "What you see is NOT what you get" issue. I can't be the only one dealing with something like this.

Here is more client work that I alluded to, that gave me issues the other day. I have a grunge layer set to Overlay at 60%. It looks like I want it in the design, but you can clearly see that the actual pdf output on the left (and in the export preview) is NOT the way I designed it, but hey at least the bleed was working on this one!

Here is yet another problem that is blocking my work. The pdf for the business card doesn't export the bleed that is clearly there in the design.

This issue is blocking my professional work deadline. Is it true that no one has seen anything like this?

I have had two projects in two days with a similar issue. My project is exactly how I want it, but when I export to pdf, there are some kind of layer/color issues so that it doesn't look like it was designed. Has anyone seen anything like this?

I really need a Mesh Warp Live Filter. Is this ever going to get implemented?

Man, I need this functionality. Is this idea being considered?