Bleed and crop marks

[rnmartinez]

Hi,

 

I am putting my second book together in Publisher. Last time I made crop marks etc because my bleed seems to extend beyond the canvas. I want to create a book that is 5x5 inches wide x 8.5 inches tall. at the print shop it will be trimmed to 5.25 x 8.25. If I take 5.5 x 8.5 and add a .125 inch bleed, it extends past the canvas. So for now I am making it 5.25 x 8.25, affinity extends the bleed past the canvas and shows the cropmarks on the PDF, which when cut does give me my measurement. 

However, is there a way to set the bleed to be inside the canvas of 5.5 x 8.5 so I can see it visually and still have the crop marks line up on export? If not I guess that I will stick to my current method. Just want to make sure that I am not doing something wrong or missing something obvious.

 

To summarize, yes I know I am getting my desired measurement, but visually it just seems a bit odd that my bleed is outside of my canvas

 

Thanks

[firstdefence]

The bleed is outside of the canvas to show the overprint you are allowing, the canvas is the result you want the finished print to be, so it does make sense to have the bleed beyond that of the books canvas.

Affinity is doing it correctly and all apps that can show bleed will do the same.

[tudor]

The bleed is always outside the canvas. You can't see it in Publisher? Enable View > Show Bleed. And also disable View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas.