Jemez Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 For ease of printing I find I need my spreads to be single pages. I do not see where it is possible to convert already formatted & filled 2-page spreads to single pages. Am I missing something? Thanks, all for assisting!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Hi Jemez Go to File > document Setup > Layout and you shall find the option for organising the document into single and facing pages. You can also set the print dialog to single to only print single pages instead of 2 page spreads Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebowski Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Have you tried on Document setup to uncheck the Facing pages? Paul Cooper and Burndog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jemez Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 4 hours ago, Pebowski said: Have you tried on Document setup to uncheck the Facing pages? That worked - thanks! Using this on an existing series of spreads, all my text and images are still there; however, I find every page now has the same margin settings. What I want is a wider margin at the center of opposing pages. I thought I would create a right hand and left hand master & apply those where appropriate, but I seem to be unable to create a pair single page masters with differing margin settings. I want a left hand master with 5/8" (.625") margins except 1" on the right side, and a right hand master with 5/8" margins except 1" on the left side. whenever I try to put the 1" margin on the left or right, all the other settings revert... Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I can do what you say with a new document. Are you trying to do this retroactively to existing two page spread documents. Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jemez Posted October 3, 2018 Author Share Posted October 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Old Bruce said: I can do what you say with a new document. Are you trying to do this retroactively to existing two page spread documents. Yes - retroactively. Actually, I think my original margins remain - but I'm seeing a purple border I believe represents margin, and it is not right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Jemez, I just made a two page spread document and then split it into single pages and there is some stuff happening. Left and Right are kind of ... relative . This needs more investigation but right now I just had a crash after closing and quitting the application so I am going to call it a day. But yeah, all is not right. Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinwolf Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 I have a similar issue. When I create a new spread doc I get the first and last pages listed as 'single page' before the pages i nbetween are all shown as 'two-page' spreads. This is fine but when I tick 'Facing' check box after creating a single page document it groups all the pages into two page spreads. I have a doc whereby graphics flow across all the pages and I need to check that they all lineup correctly ahead of print. I'd like the option to view any two pages side by side, with or without the 'centre-page' bleed. At the moment I can't see an easy way to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jemez Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Quinwolf said: I have a similar issue. When I create a new spread doc I get the first and last pages listed as 'single page' before the pages i nbetween are all shown as 'two-page' spreads. This is fine but when I tick 'Facing' check box after creating a single page document it groups all the pages into two page spreads. I have a doc whereby graphics flow across all the pages and I need to check that they all lineup correctly ahead of print. I'd like the option to view any two pages side by side, with or without the 'centre-page' bleed. At the moment I can't see an easy way to do this. Perhaps if you change the start page from right to left? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinwolf Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 23 minutes ago, Jemez said: Perhaps if you change the start page from right to left? Erm... Yes. That does it. I could have sworn I tried that before but it spread every page into two whether left or right selected. I wondered what the point of it was. However, I've just reopened the same doc to test, selecting right means the cover and back page sit as one-page. Selecting left means everything sits as two-page spread. As I'd expect. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Windmill Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 I find that if you just need to export to pdf before printing, then what you can do is select "PDF (for print)" preset, then for Area option select "All Pages", and without changing any layout settings, your exported pdf will be single-paged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneearth Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 When I select "convert to single page" from spread layout I get the spreads combined as a single page... that is the 6x9 individual pages become 12x9 pages. I want the typical 6x9 stacked individual pages. Also someone mentioned to make the conversion when exporting PDF but I don't see that option. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 18 minutes ago, oneearth said: When I select "convert to single page" from spread layout I get the spreads combined as a single page... that is the 6x9 individual pages become 12x9 pages. I want the typical 6x9 stacked individual pages. Also someone mentioned to make the conversion when exporting PDF but I don't see that option. By "Spread Layout" do you mean "Spread Setup"? If so, I'm not aware of a "convert to single page" there. If you meant "Document Setup" then there's still no "convert to single page" to select. There is a "Facing Page" option that is enabled (checked) or disabled (not checked), which is what you would want to use. And it works correctly for me. Can you provide a sample .afpub file that shows the problem? Exporting a PDF: When you have a document that is set to have Facing Pages, and you export to a PDF, you can set the Area to "All Pages" rather than the default "All Spreads": -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abysan Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Hi there, I have a problem when I wnat to "cut" my double pages to single one Before: after disabling facing pages: How can fix this? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 On 9/20/2019 at 8:48 AM, abysan said: I have a problem when I wnat to "cut" my double pages to single one If you are doing this for printing purposes, don't. Instead, when you export the PDF, choose to export "All Pages" instead of "All Spreads". This will do what you want at the time of export so that the design file can be kept in the generally more useful facing pages mode. If you do need to split them in the Publisher file for some reason, I don't believe this is currently possible without some added manual work. You would need to find all of the objects that span across the spreads and manually copy them from whichever side they wind up on to the side they were missing from. NilsFinken, Chul and abysan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abysan Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 You are a lifesaver! Thank you very much this was the answer I'm looking for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Cooper Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Thanks, that is most helpful. I have now been asked for my single pages to be ‘double sided’ for printing. Am I right in thinking that once exported as a .pdf this is done at the print document stage in the printer options? Or is there a back to back design option? Thanks in anticipation! Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 On 5/31/2020 at 6:29 AM, Paul Cooper said: once exported as a .pdf this is done at the print document stage in the printer options? yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Chait Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I need to switch back from facing pages to single pages and was not able to find the selections suggested above. Also, I want to add a title page and a Cast List to the front of my text which are not numbered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Chait Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I have the text of a play numbered. I want to add a title page and a cast list to the beginning of the document and I don't want those to be numbered. Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Matt Chait. Do you want to switch the document to single pages, or do you want to switch an exported PDF to single pages? They are different operations. For your other question, add your pages, then use the menu Document > Section Manager to add a new section starting on page 3, but with the numbering starting from 1. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Chait Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Thanks for responding. I want to switch a document to single pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 5 hours ago, Matt Chait said: Thanks for responding. I want to switch a document to single pages. Jon P 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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