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Hello all,

I have created a Publisher document in A4 format and then placed and scaled it in an A3 document. The page box is "Bleedbox".

On the right outer side there is a rotated text frame, which is about 4.5 mm from the right document edge in the Publisher document.

If I export this document as a PDF, this text frame is suddenly directly at the edge of the page, right at the bleed.

Here is a screenshot:

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I have attached the two documents. I would be very interested to know what is happening here, because I don't have a solution for this. Thank you all very much!

Regards,
Felix

 

A3_Upscaling.afpub A3 Upscaling.pdf

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It gets a little harder ...

You can see from my screenshot that the imported (and embedded) document has really been placed up to the outer edge of the bleed. When I now download and open my own document, a piece of the blue area is missing on all sides.

I don't understand anything anymore at the moment ...

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Part of the problem is that your placed document is not A3 size.

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No, it is an A4 document and has been scaled to A3. This is how it looked after it was placed linked.

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Before uploading here in the forum, I embedded the placed document. I just did the same again, with the same result: the dimensions are changed, plus the Page Box selection option is now missing.

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So my additional problem is caused by the embedding. If I leave the A4 document linked, this error does not happen.

Therefore, I am re-attaching both documents to get back to my actual question. In addition, I have added an orange check box that keeps the expected position when exporting as PDF.

Regards,
Felix

A3 Upscaling.afpub A4 Original.afpub

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4 hours ago, Failix said:

I have created a Publisher document in A4 format and then placed and scaled it in an A3 document. The page box is "Bleedbox".

 

If you include the 3 mm bleed and try to fit these new dimensions onto an A3 document you won't be able to. It is a function of geometry.

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I think what you are trying to do is place a Not A3 sized document into an A4 Document. The problem is that the Not A3 document has a different Height : Length ratio from an A3 document. This is because you are including the bleed which adds 3 mm to each edge. You would have to use the same ratio for the Top + Bottom bleed : Left + Right bleed.

3mm and 2.121951219512195mm for the bleeds will give you the correct sized document.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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The approach of my question yesterday was wrong, as I have since found out by experimenting. The problem has nothing to do with scaling, but it does have to do with importing a Publisher document in which a style has been applied into another Publisher document.

I will look into this in more detail and then possibly rephrase my question here.

Thank you for your attention and sorry for the trouble!

Regards,
Felix

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