Bleed doesn't export for PNG, JPG, TIFF, etc

[Osric]

This bug has been around for a very long time. If you export an artboard as a PNG or other bitmap and have "show bleed" checked, the bleed isn't exported. It's just blank. This only seems to work as expected with PDFs.

There's a video on YouTube where another user explains this in detail: 

 

 

[Dan C]

Hi @Osric,

Thanks for your report.

I can confirm this issue is already logged with our development team, I will be sure to 'bump' this log with your thread now to bring it to our teams attention once again.

I hope this helps

[4dimage]

This is still not completely fixed in v2.5.3

I need to export parts of my Publisher layout as a bitmap to use it as background image in blender 3d. There i want to model some 3d objects and render the whole illustration INCLUDING the needed bleed in the same aspect ratio as the original Publisher layout. Then i finally want to import the rendering back into Publisher and everything would be in place.

This was the plan. Since the background image (sky) covers only parts of the document, i want to choose "selection only" or "area of selection", to export only the distinct area. But if i do so, the option "including bleed" is deactivated in the export dialog. Furthermore the areas outside the document boundaries (bleed) are still rendered as a white frame. So i have to export the whole document including bleed, open the bitmap, cut the unwanted area away, re export it...

All these workarounds are unnecessary waste of time 🙄

In my opinion, this behaviour is not correct, as the "Selection only" option(s) would always have to export the complete bounding box of all currently selected elements. Regardless of whether they are outside the document boundaries.

When preparing documents for print, it is often necessary to treat individual elements separately. I recently had an example during prepress for a huge facade banner (670 x 470 cm). I had to create the layout at a scale of 1:10 (1500dpi) and export the entire background illustration as a bitmap with 1500dpi in order to import it again later as a ready compressed CMYK jpg image. This made it possible to avoid a further conversion during the final export to PDF/X-3. And in this case, I also needed the entire illustration including bleed!

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, 4dimage said:

This is still not completely fixed in v2.5.3

Serif doesn't think it's been fixed at all, as the Affinity Info Bot has not posted here to give any details of the fix. 

But the bug logged here is specifically about Artboards, so while you may have a related issue I think it's different. 

It would be best, I think, if you created your own topic about this so it can be investigated properly to determine if it is the same, or different.