IcyPRO Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 What would be the easiest solution to export 21 (3 columns, 7 rows) 90x50mm business cards on SRA3 paper (320x450mm) with cut marks and 4mm spacing between them? See, in Corel, you can easily do that by selecting "print" and export through PDF. But I can't seem to find workaround for this in Affinity... Thanks for all your tips -.< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 The best option I've found within Affinity is to create a grid: View > Grid and Axis Manager... set the Spacing to 10mm and Divisions to 5 With this grid layout its pretty easy and quick to get a 7 row 3 column layout. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Had a play with the advanced features of grid layout and you can get 90mm x 50mm grid with a 4mm gutter. I'm sure others could add to this idea but I have to go to work now. This is just an idea, I don't know how you would get the grid centralised. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcyPRO Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 What about crop marks? Do I have to draw them manually? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Are you printing these yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Hi Arun, I was asking the OP...I should have been clear. But this applies to both I suppose if the OP also is either needing to print direct or supply imposed PDFs. There are two print establishments I supply imposed PDFs to (aside from myself). I would really recommend using imposition software. Either standalone or a plug-in to Acrobat or use pdfToolbox (which can impose). I know it is an extra expense. But when this is a recurring task, it is quicker and over time saves. A_B_C and Alfred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcyPRO Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 Well, I'm printing stuff in our graphics studio and whether I'm the one doing the cutting or someone else, we need those crop marks most of the time... We have to export files in PDF/X-3:2002 for our printer to recognize it. I don't have much experience with imposition software, but I might take a look at it. Thanks for advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcyPRO Posted January 29, 2018 Author Share Posted January 29, 2018 On 1/25/2018 at 10:10 AM, firstdefence said: Had a play with the advanced features of grid layout and you can get 90mm x 50mm grid with a 4mm gutter. I'm sure others could add to this idea but I have to go to work now. This is just an idea, I don't know how you would get the grid centralised. I gave your idea a shot, but since (as you already mentioned) it's not centralized, it's pretty much useless.. Also, I still would have to duplicate each and every business card on my own - which is the problem I wanted to solve in the first place. So I guess that's where we're at right now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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