Adding bleed only on the outside of a page (alternating for left-right) for single-page exports?

[McNelly]

Hello!

I am formatting children's books for various online self-publishing platforms, which requires me to upload pdfs with singular pages with a precise amount of bleed.

I am running into an issue with Affinity (which I otherwise love so far, really), where, once "facing pages" is selected, the export will export double-pages as one page, and only be counted as one page on these uploads. If I set it to single pages, however, this means that my book bleed (0.125 inches around the outside, inside, top and bottom) instead becomes 0.125 inches bleed on the left, right, top and bottom of each individual page. 

I want the bleed for these images to be set only to the outside-facing side (left for pages on the left of the book, right for pages on the right of the book), because the publishing platforms only allow for 0.125 bleed on each side of the doublespread. So I'm wondering if it is possible to set up alternating bleed settings or individual bleed settings for each page? That way I could manually set the bleed to 0 on one side and 0.125 on the other, for left and right, as required for each page.

Right now, my only solution was to give each individual page half of that bleed each side, but this means my bleed generally just becomes a bit confusing as it's not really what I'm after.
Alternatively, is there a way to export a PDF with the facing-pages setting but still exporting it page-by-page? (so that a pdf viewer could view one page at a time, rather than be forced to see the spread?)

Thank you!

[Catshill]

Can you confirm that when exporting you are selecting individual pages rather than the annoying default of “all spreads”?

[NathanC]

Hi @McNelly welcome to the forums,

It doesn't look like it's possible to setup separate bleeds per page/spread via master pages, only margins as it appears another user has had a similar issue in the below thread.

 

 

[McNelly]

@CatshillHey! Thank you so much, that was exactly the setting I was looking for. (Still learning some of the common tools and terminology.) I'd seen that setting in Scribus but had not made the connection  that in Affinity the "All Spreads"/ "All pages" selection made that particular difference. With that, everything falls in place as it should

 

[Catshill]

14 hours ago, McNelly said:

@CatshillHey! Thank you so much, that was exactly the setting I was looking for. (Still learning some of the common tools and terminology.) I'd seen that setting in Scribus but had not made the connection  that in Affinity the "All Spreads"/ "All pages" selection made that particular difference. With that, everything falls in place as it should

 

You are welcome. All Spreads often trips me up too.