Wrong bleeds in exported PDF book.

[Guillermo Espertino]

I just finished a book composed of 15 chapters, each one created as individual afpub files. Every chapter uses the same layout, spreads with facing pages, with outer bleeds set to 3mm and inner bleed set so 0.

When I export any of those chapters individually to PDF files selecting single-page (not spreads), with bleeds and printer marks checked, the result is correct, with every page in the PDF displaying the bleeds as intended.

However, when I export the full book choosing chapters as pages from the book panel, the outer bleeds get randomly cropped. I can't figure out what is causing it, as bleeds are exported properly for some pages, and not for others.

I'm quite sure this is a bug and not some error on my side, as individual afpub files are exported correctly with the same settings, the problem only shows up when exporting the full book.

[MikeTO]

Hi, could you provide more details? I created a test book and I couldn't duplicate the problem. I believe you that there's a problem but there must be a set of conditions required to make this happen.

Is it happening with shapes, images, text, or something else? Are they are on the page or a master page? If you add an object of a different type to the page will it not bleed correctly, too? i.e., is it just that object or would any object on that page not bleed correctly?

Is it happening on both left and right pages? What are your stray page settings? Does it happen only with chapters that end on left pages, right pages, or both?

Any additional information you can provide would be helpful.

Cheers

[Guillermo Espertino]

Hi @MikeTO
I haven't been able to pinpoint the trigger for that behavior. All my chapters begin with a right page and end with a left one.
It seems that the only pages showing the wrong behavior are the ones on the right, but as I mentioned, not all of them.

The type of objects that should be bleeding are photo frames.

Your questions give me some ideas to try, but so far the exact trigger for that behavior is eluding me.

EDIT: It looks like the objects that fail are images that were placed directly onto the document and not inside image frames. Photos in image frames bleed correctly, images placed directly don't. I'm going through the document to see if all of them failing share the same condition.

[MikeTO]

1 hour ago, Guillermo Espertino said:

EDIT: It looks like the objects that fail are images that were placed directly onto the document and not inside image frames. Photos in image frames bleed correctly, images placed directly don't. I'm going through the document to see if all of them failing share the same condition.

Huh, I still can't duplicate this. I added a photo that bled off the outside edge to every page of every chapter and they all looked correct on export.

Can you create a test book with 2 chapters that illustrates the problem?

Good luck

[Guillermo Espertino]

Just converted all the images to image frames and nope, that was not the source of the problem.

I'm attaching the full book and all the sections. I'm not sure whether it will be of any use without the actual images and typography, but please take a look.

One of the images that is getting the wrong bleeds is the one from page 15. Try putting any image there and see if it exports with proper bleeds (keep in mind that exporting a chapter individually works fine, the problem appears when I export the book containing the chapters).

 

[MikeTO]

Thanks, I've duplicated the problem and have attached a simpler test document. FYI you can edit your previous post and delete the attachment from it if you're concerned about others having access to your document.

Chapter.afpubBook.afbooktest.pdf

Notes for Serif: This test document has a single chapter with 2 pages and 1 image. It's not important to have the missing image, the preview is sufficient for a test. Just export the book with printers marks on and you'll see the problem on the right edge. But exporting the chapter won't trigger the issue. Also, if you delete the blank page 2 and then export the book the problem won't occur.

[Guillermo Espertino]

Thank you very much @MikeTO!!!

[Lee D]

Thank you for the report, I've logged this with the developers to investigate further.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "PDF bleed differs when exporting using the Books panel" (REF: AFB-7715) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.2.0.1857".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
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