Publisher: More than 2 pages side by side ?

[Blende21]

Currently I am designing a marketing flyer. It is square, 148 by 148mm, 3 pages horizontal and folds inward (left page on top, right in between, middle page bottom). I have created a page layout with the measures, but find no way to make the 3 pages show continuously side by side like a brochure with 2 facing pages.

Is there any way to define a layout with 3 facing pages (or even 4 of them) ? In total I need 6 pages, 3 front, 3 rear. The bleed is just around the total layout, 2 folding areas going through, where the printed content can be continuous.

My alternative would be to create a page size with a dimension of 3 pages side by side. But for the upload of the design to the online printshop, I need each page as a single pdf.

Any ideas ?

[lacerto]

See this post if it has something that could work for you:

 

[Blende21]

Thanks for posting. I think I will give Designer a try, in combination with embedding the project into a wide (3-paged) Publisher page.

What I like with this idea is to have the continuous flow of my content over the 3 pages. This is closer to what I have in mind than 3 single pages. Thanks Serif for Studio link !

The only thing I need to work out is the upload - I am restricted by the online printshop to upload 3 PDFs for a single wide page.

[Raymondo]

Back when Publisher launched I highlighted the restrictive nature of only being able to have a two page spread. As a designer for some years I have designed many creative page layout designs where more than two page spreads were used and where page sizes varied ie folds etc. Last time I had plenty of feedback saying, but you can do this and do that as a workaround. Anybody having worked or is working in a professional commercial environment will tell you, you don’t have the luxury of time to fart around with workarounds. 

You have to be able to use your tools straight out of the box and concentrate on the design process and client deadlines, not having to look for compromises and workarounds with your tools.InDesign has had this flexibility in page layout for sometime, in 2020 it should not be something we should be begging for, it should have always been there at launch.

Please Serif don’t just concentrate on publishers of books and niche artists, let’s start having some real world support for mainstream commercial creative designers.

Don’t get me wrong, I support Serif and have done since they launched the Affinity range of professional software back in what, 2014, but my usage to date has been restricted to fairly straightforward designs due entirely to the softwares missing elements throughout the range.

Despite much feedback on this subject over the past, I haven’t seen any meaningful feedback from Serif themselves. Would be nice to have at the very least some acknowledgement from Serif that they recognise the issue. I also acknowledge that this year has been a challenge for many companies so I’m not unsympathetic to Serif having been maybe pushed back in development but please Serif, let us see some more focus on the creative commercial environment.