Bleed areas when producing a PDF document from Affinity Designer

[William Overington]

I have it in mind to order some A4 printed sheets of my artwork online from the following facility.

https://viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/

I am hoping to make the PDF document files using Affinity Designer.

Everything I want to do at present is loose, flat sheets.

The files will be various, some vector, some bitmap images, some white background, some coloured background to the edge.

There is an online support facility as regards the print house, but I have a question relating to Affinity Designer please.

I refer to the following page.

https://support.viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/en/articles/3325453-bleed

I take that to mean 3 millimetres on each edge.

As A4 is 297 mm by 210 mm, is a PDF document exported from Affinity Designer as 297 mm by 210 mm with a 3 mm bleed on each edge different from a PDF document exported from Affinity Designer as 303 mm by 216 mm and no bleed?

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There are some articles about artwork.

https://support.viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/en/collections/1928155-artwork

Specifically the following seem particularly relevant to what I want to do.

https://support.viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/en/articles/3325453-bleed

https://support.viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/en/articles/3325332-how-should-i-set-up-my-artwork

https://support.viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/en/articles/3268691-artwork-checklist

https://support.viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/en/articles/4362488-scale-artwork

I intend to use Do not scale

William

 

[walt.farrell]

37 minutes ago, William Overington said:

As A4 is 297 mm by 210 mm, is a PDF document exported from Affinity Designer as 297 mm by 210 mm with a 3 mm bleed on each edge different from a PDF document exported from Affinity Designer as 303 mm by 216 mm and no bleed?

Yes, the PDF document content is different.

You should (I'm guessing) probably use A4 size, include the 3mm Bleed specifically in your document setup, then make sure when you Export that you click More and make sure you choose Include Bleed and Include Crop Marks.

Also make sure that any artwork on your pages that should run to the page edge actually runs to the outer edge of the Bleed.

[William Overington]

I tried to display the bleed guide lines, but I could not observe them displaye.

I changed the colour to red but still cannot see them.

If I make the document A4 landscape and have 3 mm bleed areas and red bleed lines, should the bleed areas at starting be shown as white or be part of the grey background?

William

 

[William Overington]

Ah, I have fixed that now.

For some reason after I had set the colour it did not lock in, but had gone back to grey.

Eventually I managed to set the bleed guides ro yellow.

William