Bleed area - placed image not showing in the bleed.

[joolstacho]

My placed Photo images, although sized correctly including bleed (in Photo), don't show up in my Designer bleed area, they appear, but they are 'clipped' to the trim area, nothing in the bleed area.

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The other thing is, every other application (that I know) has an artboard where items can be placed for later inclusion onto the page. But in Designer, any item I place disappears when I move it off the actual page.
I'm sure that this is some very simple setting, but I can't find info on this in the tutorials such as 'Artboard'. I didn't 'get' this Artboard tutorial... it demonstrated various ways of drawing an artboard, but gave no explanation at all of why you would want to do this... I kept thinking "yes, but what on earth for!". Can't I just have a 'normal' artboard on which items are visible?

Ta, Jools

Edited December 1, 2020 by joolstacho
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[Fixx]

Try
View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas (tick off)

[Dazmondo77]

Artboards don't currently show viewable bleed (which is annoying) but it does output if your bleed is setup - the only way around this is to setup your Designer pages separately and make sure NOT to tick the 'create artboard' box on page setup then you'll be able to view the bleed - once theres an artboard setup you'll lose viewable bleed, I don't think theres a way to convert an artboard doc to a page doc, although you can create a non artboard doc and copy paste the content.

I suspect the way that Artboards currently work is kind of like a mask or a vector container as if you place or move content in a layer above the artboard, you can see its full un-clipped size. I don't think the boffins have worked out a way yet to expand the artboard for viewable bleed so you could view a page size guide and then the artboard container - I usually set-up all my multi-page stuff in publisher as I really want viewable bleed - then use studiolink personas for designer and photo

[joolstacho]

Daz and Fixx thanks, I was about to post a screenshot showing the problem, but then had one last try and found that CLIP TO CANVAS tick was on.
Thanks everyone.

I still have to resolve the issue of not being able to place a docx file. I'll keep at it.

[Fixx]

13 hours ago, joolstacho said:

I still have to resolve the issue of not being able to place a docx file.

Places fine to Publisher, Designer does not do it and is not even meant to.

[joolstacho]

Thanks Fixx. Now I won't be searching for something that's not there!  -I've now bought Publisher so that'll be 'it' for longer pub's.

Very helpful, Cheers.