importing PDF files into Affinity Designer - no options for Bleed/Crop/Artwork

[printinthebag]

Hi I currently use illustrator and I am intrigued by Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo - I am currently trailing both using my normal workflow in a small print shop - I have encountered a problem and have a question.

 

When I place a PDF onto a page in Affinity Designer it shows no bleed, I usually use illustrator and place 4 pages with the bleed on a sheet and snap them to each other centre them and there is an imposition ready to print from.

 

However Affinity seemingly only imports with a cropped to artwork files - please help - how do I show the bleed - sorry if I am being stupid!!

 

Regards Tim  - Print In The Bag

[MEB]

Hi printinthebag,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

I'm not sure how we deal with imported files with Bleed, but currently Affinity Designer doesn't have a bleed preview so there's no way to see it (even for documents created from scratch in Affinity). Currently you can only set it up in the Document Setup dialog. Bleed preview will come in a future update.

[printinthebag]

Hi MEB

 

OK so I suppose the way around this is to make the document 3mm bigger thus incorporating the bleed into the page size until a work around is updated, thanks for getting back to me on this.

 

Regards - Tim

[Fixx]

Bleeds works fine, I tested and found no problems.

Exported from Illustrator with printers marks, placed in identical size AD document, set bleeds in Document setup and included them in Export>More. Final exported PDF had bleed area with printer marks as expected.

No need to play with page sizes.

There is no bleed lines visible in canvas/pasteboard but you can see the bleed area stuff when you set View mode > Clip to Canvas off. Check exported PDF when done and you will see it is ok.