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Hi. Although imposition of page numbers on a booklet is working, it is not possible to SAVE any document to the PDF printer at the bottom of the printer list.

This means that booklets cannot actually be printed with the correct Affinity-created page numbers because EXPORTING to PDF format does not hold the imposition needed. Currently, it appears that the only way would be through that (virtual) PDF printer. (I note that the TUTORIAL on printing booklets conveniently terminates before the printing command is invoked. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/publisher/desktop/video/337465816   Perhaps the procedure will be clearer once this tutorial has been updated to cover Affinity Publisher 1.7.3.481) 

It rather looks as if we will have to continue publication of our magazine using the older Serif PagePlus X9 for a little while yet. Anyone know how little?

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No, but this is something a number of people have commented on already - the lack of imposition options in the export window in spite of them being present when printing.

That said, while PDFs exported from the print window may not be standards-compliant for professional printing, most of them will want to do the imposition themselves, and I have had no particular issues with creating PDFs from the print window with imposition options applied, at least on the Mac version.

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Thanks for that.

We run a 56 to 72 page monthly magazine by printing 4 x A4 sheets on an A3 sheet of newsprint. (This is a free public-information magazine run by volunteers with costs covered by local advertisers and donations. We run to about 2000 copies per issue).

 The Serif Pageplus imposition has worked extremely well for us. But we are aware that Pageplus is Legacy Software. Hence the planned transition to Affinity Publisher.

We currently use three RISO SF printers that take a PDF file as input but really are like fast photo-copying machines (only much heavier!). This means the file must be taken to them rather than printing directly a PC or MAC using any supplementary software. 

My comment was not so much about the imposition process in Affinity Publisher (which seems to be adequate) , as the fact that Publisher cannot apparently produce a PDF file without losing that imposition.

Right at the end of the Affinity Publisher printer list is 'Adobe PDF' but it does not currently do anything. Exporting to PDF does, but the imposition is then lost. 

So, for our purposes, Affinity Publisher 1.7.3.481 is somewhat comparable with Scribus 1.5.3. in that we can only do the page imposition manually. We have tested all the Beta copies of Affinity Publisher and presumed that the saleable Publisher was now up and running. But, in effect, it seems that we have just made a donation for its further development. Fortunately, it is not particularly expensive.

We are also moving from Serif PhotoPlus to Affinity Photo for our graphic art and photo preparation but this has now been delayed because of cross-compatibility issues.

A meaningful time estimate for a functioning Publisher-imposited PDF file output would help. It is, of course, entirely possible that the procedure shown in the Tutorial has now been superseded with the recent upgrade to version 1.7.3.481. Certainly, the screen-images shown in the tutorial are not identical with the current reality.

Ah well! Life and software are full of challenges. 'Twere ever thus!

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7 hours ago, Taumatarea said:

A meaningful time estimate for a functioning Publisher-imposited PDF file output would help.

You are highly unlikely to get thus unless/until the feature comes out in a beta version.

 

If you are on Windoze 10, you might want to try enabling the Microsoft-provided PDF printer instead of using the Adobe one.  That is included with the OS but is not always enabled by default: https://www.isumsoft.com/windows-10/enable-microsoft-print-to-pdf-option-in-windows-10.html

If you are on an older version of Windoze, there are free utilities you can download from various places to add a similar feature to the list - shouldn't be hard to find.

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Hi fde101.

Yes, we do indeed suffer from Windoze 10 and there is indeed an inactive Microsoft print to pdf application within it!

Following your advice (and a quick test) shows that the Microsoft PDF printer does indeed print the correct imposited PDF document prepared in Affinity Publisher!

Thank you so very much for your advice.

Hopefully, we can now move on to the next disaster!

Regards

Taumatarea

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