Bleed Bug - showstopper

[Rogurt]

Hi all

 

I have been professionally working in print for over two decades now so I think I know the basics. That said I recently bought designer just for curiosity (and me not liking adobe politics). My first real project is giving me a hard time. I have created a title illustration in designer that I placed in a publisher document. When prepping for print I added 2mm bleed in the designer artboard (YES I know how to show the bleed and that there actually has to be content in the bleed area). But the bleed will neither show nor export to pdf...

I googled a bit and this seems to be a bug. See here (german though). The "on/off" workaround works on a new empty project but not on my title illustration with 3 artboards.

Any solutions other than "on/off" bleed in view options?
This bug immediatly forbids using designer for pro work. What a pity...

P.S. I do not work with personas. Rather I open the files in the corresponding app.

 

Cheers

[PaulEC]

Even if you can't see the image in the bleed area, you can see where the edge of the image is (i.e. outside the bleed area). So I would think of this as a minor, occasional, bug:  hardly a "showstopper", or preventing using Designer for pro work!

[PaulEC]

I'm not saying there aren't any problems, just that their importance is being a little overrated: They don't make Designer unusable! As you say, I'm sure Serif are working on fixing the bugs.

[thomaso]

Me too can't get it work. I placed an afdesign in APub, selected "BleedBox" in the Context Toolbar. The bounding box size shows correctly but remains empty. At least in the exported PDF the bleed of the placed .afdesign should appear – but it remains empty like in the layout views in AD and APub.

.afdesign with 30 mm bleed:

... placed on a larger page in .afpub with BleedBox selected:

The PDF shows the .afdesign with an empty bleed area:

 

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Hens said:

but it does export with bleed when you use the include bleed option for pdf.

@Hens, without a hint like "workaround" your reply + afdesign opened in Apub is misleading here. It implies the user lacks in proper export setting only.

Note that the OP literally mentioned to have placed in .afpub:

1 hour ago, Rogurt said:

a title illustration in designer that I placed in a publisher document. (...)  bleed in the designer artboard

[NathanC]

Hi @Rogurt,

I can confirm this issue relates to the inability to see objects that extend over to the bleed area on artboards, this is currently logged with the developers for resolution.