Margins & Bleed lines

[GGi]

Hi ...have just been using Affinity Publisher Beta version and have set up margins but when I try to set up bleed line 0.25 it auto sets at .30...regardless I cannot view the bleed line or find where to? Please advise, thanks.

[Patrick Connor]

@GGi

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums

I have moved your post into the Publisher forums. Please can you tell me if this is on Mac or Windows? 

[firstdefence]

I think the issue might be decimal places set to 1 so visually its rounding it up but I think the bleed will still be .25 but like you I cannot see the bleed lines (see my sig for system details) 

Note: Updating to 1.7.0.133 enables me to show bleeds View > Show Bleeds weird how a simple visual reference makes things so much clearer.

[GGi]

thanks for your help guys...it's windows I'm working from

[Patrick Connor]

GGi, does firstdefence's answer about decimal display accuracy solve this for you? If you enter 0.25 it should be stored and used as 02.5 no matter how it is displayed anyway

[GGi]

So, so....but it's the least of my worries now....the whole Affinity system is so much more difficult to use that Serif...the beauty about Serif was it's simplicity copy, paste etc....now still can't view bleed lines and can't save files as Jpeg's or pdf's only Affinity files!!

 

[MEB]

Hi GGi,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
To "save" in non-native formats like JPG, PDF etc go to menu File ▸ Export.

[GGi]

ok, this forum is great thank you so much....you know I'm going to be on here every minute right!!

next question...how do I convert to curves?

[MEB]

If you are referring to text when exporting to PDF, click the More button on the export dialog and set the Embed fonts dropdown to Text as Curves. If you meant converting on the canvas - for shapes, artistic and frame text objects -, select them and go to menu Layer ▸ Convert to Curves.

[GGi]

pressed MORE button but no embed fonts drop down?

 

[GGi]

apologies...found it! thanks again....