A very strange requirement

[Gianni Becattini]

My publisher is going to put my books on a printing on demand service in the USA, because the shipping of heavy books from Europe is very expensive.

So they asked me to produce a pdf with page size 215.9x215.9 mm instead of 210x210 mm, with a bleed of 3.175 mm instead of 5 mm. The enlargement factor is 1.028, so I guess I must reduce the bleed from 5 to 3.09 mm and then enlarge the exported pdf of 1.028 x.

But how can I produce an enlarged pdf? Do I need some special tool or Publisher can do that?

Thanks

[thomaso]

Instead of enlarging the PDF (how?) you can rescale (a copy of) the Affinity document with the according anchor (spread centre) and adjust the bleed (possibly without rescaling its objects since the new bleed is smaller than the current bleed).

https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Pages/DocumentSetup.html&title=Document setup

[Gianni Becattini]

Thanks, Thomaso

I am probably doing something wrong, but I can only resize the page. Its content remain unchanged.

[thomaso]

24 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:

I can only resize the page. Its content remain unchanged.

It requires several steps: page size in the "Dimensions" tab -> scaling options in the "Scaling" tab.

[Gianni Becattini]

Thanks again. I understood the logic, but it crashes. I tested on Intel and M2 with the same results. Nothing happens and then Publisher does not respond correctly.

Maybe a problem because I use the beta version?

[Gianni Becattini]

No, I tested also with the production version (M2 only), with two different files, it always hangs.

[Gianni Becattini]

It depends on "Resize", that is the problem.

[Gianni Becattini]

STOP! Perhaps my fault. It is very slow, and it doesn't say that it is working...

More news later

[Gianni Becattini]

Yes, it was only a matter of time. I could not find any indicator to see when it finishes.

However I succeed in creating what they wanted (I hope), so I am happy and thank you for the good advice.