A4 GREETING CARDS ON AFFINITY

[rochellemc]

Hi  , 

I am new to affinity publisher,  I have designer , publisher and photo but I am really struggling with the set up.

I want to be able to have the 4 pages on my screen so I can flip back and forth like on Microsoft Publisher if possible. 

Basically I want to design an A4 standard greeting card that I can fold in half once .

All the tutorials show me how to set up for a quad fold card.

Also , how do I double side print on affinity publisher. Can somebody please send me template that is pre setup or give me an easy step by step. I am so used to photoshop and new to Affinity 

Thank You :)

[firstdefence]

I would have thought the printer software would deal with duplex printing, either automatically; pulling the sheet back in once printed on one side or manually; asking how you want to flip the page and telling you when to do so.

How do you want the card to open? Folded edge vertical like book style, or folded edge at the top?

[rochellemc]

hi ,

thankyou for your reply ,

Its not the print so much I am concerned about. I just cannot fathom out how to set the pages up so I can print accordingly.

I would like them to open vertically, like a book.

so on the display , I would like all 4 pages of the card to show at once and then I can switch between pages if that makes sense.

[firstdefence]

A4 in landscape mode with a vertical guide indicating the fold, maybe something along these settings.
 

[firstdefence]

Try this out: A4 sheet to A5 card.afpub

[v_kyr]

Or instead setup in A4 half-fold letter orientation.

[rochellemc]

wow thankyou so much that's exactly what I was looking for , 

14 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Try this out: A4 sheet to A5 card.afpub

wow thankyou so much , that is exactly what I was looking for  

[rochellemc]

don't suppose you have a template for a business card front and back too but In the same format where I can see both sides.

thank you

[rochellemc]

19 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Or instead setup in A4 half-fold letter orientation.

ohh thankyou , im so new to all of this so this is a huge help

[v_kyr]

It's overall easy to setup specific page layouts and make your own templates for these. - For the greeting card just follow firstdefence advice and template, in order to have a view of all at once. For common home printing take a look for example here, even that guy used Word it's pretty much the same when printing from an Affinity product, since the OS related accessed printer driver is the main instance for printer settings here ...

• How to print half fold greeting cards at home

For business card creation among Youtube videos etc. take a look here ...

• How to design a business card and what is the size of it in mm

• bcard.afpub

[rochellemc]

thankyou , 

now I have tried all day and night to set up a page view for a 7 x 10 paper and when folded it is a 5 x 7 greeting card. 

I have the pre folded paper all ready to print on but I cant set up a page layout like the A4 one you sent me.

how do I get a 7 x 10 layout with all the pages shown together so I can just print double sided?

 

[v_kyr]

See the available document setup settings, namely ...

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The dialog is split into separate tabs which let you customise your current preset or apply more advanced settings.

• For Layout:
  • Facing pages—Check to arrange the document pages in spreads.
  • Arrange—Specify whether the spread should be arranged horizontally or vertically. For facing page spreads only.
  • Start on—Specify where the spread should start. For facing page spreads only.

So you have under "Layout" to check the checkmark box for facing pages and then setup if horizontally or vertically spread.

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2 hours ago, rochellemc said:

...so I can just print double sided? 

That has nothing to do with printing double sided per se, just how things are shown up then. - Double sided printing (as far as your printer supports this directly and thus reverses paper automatically) is a matter of the printer driver setting. In other words, the printer driver when setup accordingly for double sided printing, gets the pages from the software and then instructs the printer to reverse the paper accordingly for the even number of pages. For printers without direct automatic double sided printing capabilities one would have to reverse pages manually then. - The whole double sided printing process is usually controlled and setup by the printer driver.

[ale62]

Hi, could you share us your methodology/result please?

I cannot go visiting my parents (because of covid) and I would like to send them a greeting card.

I've looked for a cool greeting card on the web...they are ok, but not wow imo. I think this is the best I have found: https://www.leavingcard.com/gb but once again using an exiting one could be a bit impersonal...so I decided to try to create a unique card myself...it would have a better value for them. So I am trying to learn.

It would be of help if you could share your insights.

Thanks

[webuxer]

On 1/6/2020 at 10:31 AM, firstdefence said:

Try this out: A4 sheet to A5 card.afpub

 

On 1/6/2020 at 10:31 AM, firstdefence said:

Try this out: A4 sheet to A5 card.afpub

I'm also looking into making something like this and I can't figure it out, I'm using Affinity Designer. Any idea how I can do this? 
Thank you

[v_kyr]

21 minutes ago, webuxer said:

I'm using Affinity Designer. Any idea how I can do this? 

Use Artboards for Designer, aka for the front and back sides etc.

[webuxer]

After looking into this, I would like to create a 7x5 (landscape) the front will have the artwork the back of the front will have some text etc. I'm sharing a video of how I would like to lay it out. I need some assistance on how to format the project in AD. Would it be possible for someone to provide me a template? reason been is that I don't know how to layout and arrange the 4 sides in AD. Thanks in advance, I really appreciate it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1flUOLD7INcl3Sl9C0K-dwJT5Vj2DbJeX/view?usp=sharing