Completely confused!!!

[dulede]

Hi

I am struggling with photocopying a paper form which is around 40 pages in length, then editing each page, then printing this off as if it was a 40 page word document. No spreads. No double pages on each A4 sheet. Just a run of A4 pages one after another but with my PDF software reader I can print off using double sided printing and am happy with it.

So Ithought I'd create a document in Affinity Publisher, add the pages and print it, but it does this with the front and back full size a4 and the rest as two A5 pages per A4 sheet. I do not want to print two pages on A4 sheets as a spread. I need to create a 40 page PDF from the edited scans of the original.

I need it as a PDF so that I can print easily a full document. Today I had to do manual printing and flipping of each and every page. There has to be something I'm missing. Each scanned image that is edited in Photo, I save as both a PDF and Jpeg, never knowing which I'm going to need. But I tend to use images more than PDFs.

I want to be able to create, for example a 40 page document, printing each page on its own full side of A4. My preference is then for double sided printing taking 20 sheets of A4. I need the format to print like in the image on the left. Not the right.

I'm sure this must be easy but it just seems so difficult in Publisher. Any advice warmly appreciated.
Thank you all. 

Edited July 20, 2023 by dulede
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[PaulEC]

If I understand what you want correctly, all you need do is untick “facing pages” in Document Setup. (The two pages, side by side, are A4 facing pages, not two A5 pages!)

[dulede]

Hi PaulEC

I realised the size issue and that it effectively produces spreads at A3 size or thereabouts. When attempting to print though it still prints to A4 but as two pages across landscape. I will try the 'facing pages' option and hope that does it. The first and last page would print A4 and the remaining spreads would fit the spreads landscape within the A4 sheet. Two small pages running down the width of the page.

The facing page issue should do it and I knew it must be easy, but it is not quite so easy to find answers on Affinity Publisher as compared to any Adobe product. The six pages shown across three spreads need to print to six pages but had been printing on 3 A4 sheets.

Thank you for letting me know. 
Regards.

edit: success. simply the facing pages option when creating the document. Wonderful. Thank you

Edited July 20, 2023 by dulede
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