Landscape booklet: Back page isn't rotated as expected

[twinger]

Affinity Publisher 2.0:

I create a landscape booklet with the pages arranged vertically (e.g. for a greeting card or "tent" card). I expect to be able to edit all of the individual pages right-side up. But then when I export to pdf or print, I expect Publisher to rotate the last page 180 degrees so that the back of the booklet is opposite to the front. But Publisher doesn't do this. So I end up having to edit the final page upside down in order to have it print or impose correctly.

In the attached screenshot I've created a simple test document with the pages all edited right-side up. You can see in the print dialogue box that the last page is *not* being rotated to create the booklet correctly.

I don't know if this is a bug or the intended functionality. Perhaps there are documents where you'd want the last page to be read in sequence (where text continues onto the back page). But it seems to me that the normal use of a landscape booklet would require the last page (back cover) to be rotated. Do you agree? If this isn't a bug, maybe there should be an option in the print dialogue to rotate the final page.

Note that the help file describes booklet printing this way: "Imposition means that your pages are flipped and reordered at print time so that when printed sheets are produced, they can be folded so pages come together in their correct order."

[thomaso]

The print options book and booklet are reported quite a few times for V1 to be confusing or buggy. When I try in V1 vertical spreads with top as start page than the print dialog produces for a 4 page document and two sided booklet printing 3 prints:  1  |  2  |  3+4  … which feels even more strange than the missing page rotation.

[Dan C]

Hi @twinger,

Thanks for your report and our sincerest apologies for the delayed response here. We are exceptionally busy following the release of V2 and we thank you for your continued patience and understanding here.

I can confirm that I too would expect this page 4 to be flipped in your document setup, so I am logging this as a bug with our developers now.

Equally, I'm not 100% certain of the expected behaviour when the facing pages start on the top as shown in your document thomaso, so I will be including this in the log also.

I hope this helps