Affinity Designer 2.1.0 bleed guides disappeared, MacOS 13.3.1

[Ginhuardy]

I was moving my drawing tablet, smacked a bunch of keys on the keyboard, and now the bleed guides, the thin, violet lines that indicate the bleed when it is hidden have disappeared in Designer. They were there, worked fine until I hit the mystery combo of keys. I've gone through the view menu, tried clipping and unclipping, went through all the view items. I turned show bleed on and off, which works; there's just no light-violet line showing where the bleed area ends outside the document dimensions when the bleed is hidden. Tried document properties and checked that the violet color is still selected, it is. Searched online, didn't find anything...

Anyone have an idea on how to get the bleed guides to show again?

MacOS 13.3.1, Affinity Designer 2.1.0

[Callum]

Hi Ginhuardy,

Welcome to the forums

View > Show Bleed should be solving this problem. If you create a new file with a bleed applied does the same issue occur?

Thanks
C

[Ginhuardy]

Hi Callum,

I tried opening other .afdesign documents I'd already created, and tried creating a few new documents. When I first open each document, the violet bleed-guide line is visible and the bleed area is hidden by black.

When I go to View > Show Bleed, Show Bleed has a check mark next to it even though the bleed area is hidden by black.

If I un-check Show Bleed, the violet line disappears, and the bleed remains hidden by black.

I then go back to View > Show Bleed. It is unchecked. I select it, and the bleed area is then revealed.

I go back to the View menu. Show Bleed has a check mark. I unselect it, and the bleed area is then hidden by black again, but no violet bleed-guide line appears. I tried multiple times. Each time after the initial setting change, the View > Show Bleed setting does reveal and hide the bleed, but the violet bleed-guide never reappears.

Thanks
Gino

bleed guide screenshots.afphoto

[Old Bruce]

@Ginhuardy,

This is one of the most baffling things about Designer. Artboards for some reason are incapable of showing the Bleed. I cannot figure out why.

[walt.farrell]

3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

This is one of the most baffling things about Designer. Artboards for some reason are incapable of showing the Bleed. I cannot figure out why.

I think it must be some kind of complex interaction between View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas and the way it's treated when you have Artboards, and the visibility behavior in general of objects that cross from an Artboard onto the workspace, and the need to show the Bleed.