affinity publisher Pages shrink when sent to printer or exported to PDF in booklet form.

[Digitally Fearless]

Hi,

I create program guides for shows. They are printed on 8.5 x 11 paper in booklet form where each page is 8.5 x 5.5. I have done this many times in the past with Publisher. When I view it on the screen everything looks great, but now when I go to print, or export to PDF the graphics and text shrink on the page. I even reopened the file I created a few months ago that printed and exported correctly, but now it too shrinks. I have attached  screen shot showing the view in Publisher, and the view when exported to PDF. Note that since I used booklet form when exporting the pages were rearranged, but all the pages are shrunk down when printed or exported. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thank you.

[walt.farrell]

39 minutes ago, Digitally Fearless said:

Note that since I used booklet form when exporting the pages were rearranged

"Export" does not have Booklet form, so I presume you're actually Printing to a PDF driver for that case?

So is it always when Printing that you have the problem?

If so, what are your Print settings?

[Old Bruce]

Do you have a Bleed set for the document? If yes do you have the Include Bleed checked in the export setting?

[TSL]

Hi, I can confirm, printing an A6 format on A5 paper -- beside shrinking the page the inside of the flyer is on top so the wrong way around. This is a severe problem I would say.

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, TSL said:

the page the inside of the flyer is on top so the wrong way around

What were your exact Print settings?

[Digitally Fearless]

I solved the problem. I needed booklet form which always worked in the past with my Brother Printer (Layout, Booklet) but now it shrunk the page. I decided to try my Canon printer and when I selected booklet it did the same. Canon has another option that Brother does not. It is "Book". This made the content of the page the correct size of 100%, but this is not what I want because I need the pages placed in a booklet order. I then switched back to booklet and the page did not shrink, so I saved as PDF in the print settings and it worked. I saw many posts about this problem. I hope this helps others.