Affinity Publisher: Inner bleed for spreads as "all pages" export

[ChloeS]

I'm designing a children's book for a client and have run into a problem with our printing company. The first physical copy of the book we ordered had full page spreads that were not lined up properly in the center. I contacted them about this issue and they said it was due to the bleeds being incorrectly set up.  

I put the book together as spreads, and then un-checked "facing pages" so I can manually adjust the inner bleed for my full-page spreads on each individual page. When I put facing pages back on to see how it looks, the spread illustration flows across the page just fine. However, my printer wants to see the inner bleed for the corresponding pages to "cross over" so the bleeds appear on the opposite inner edge of the page. 

I've seen other posts on this forum where people have seen the inner bleed "crossover" as a problem, but my file doesn't do this. How can I set this up in Affinity Publisher?

I've attached an example of what they want me to do from their site as well as screenshots of what my spread currently looks like (as facing pages and as individual pages).

 

[Old Bruce]

There must be some sort of misunderstanding going on. The first image (from the website) is just bizarre. Are the printers actually wanting ....

No I am not going to try and guess. What is the company that requires such a layout?

[Douglas Stinson]

I have the opposite problem. I'm getting "crossover bleed" as shown on your first image every time I export spreads as pages and I don't want it!

Ah, just figured out why.....

 

Edited March 22, 2021 by Douglas Stinson
No longer relevant

[loukash]

On 12/31/2020 at 12:12 AM, ChloeS said:

un-checked "facing pages" so I can manually adjust the inner bleed for my full-page spreads on each individual page

3 hours ago, Douglas Stinson said:

I have the opposite problem.

It shouldn't be necessary to manually adjust the inner bleed by unchecking facing pages. In fact, that's likely what then messes up the layout and the bleed.

Lay out your spreads as facing pages just as you would see them in the book/brochure.
Only if an image spreads over the first and the last page, you may need to duplicate it and adjust the bleed manually.

If the printers need individual pages with full bleed for imposition, make sure you export Area: All pages; not spreads. Publisher will then do the right thing.