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11 hours ago, mliving said:

and make the artboard area usable to drop assets onto and be able to see and manipulate them.

The area to the right and left of the page is available for that purpose, if you disable View > View Mode > Clip to Canvas.

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You're welcome, @mliving.

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Hi, I'm new to this forum. This 'slug' area has been confusing me too, but as far as I can tell, and correct me if I'm mistaken, but Publisher already creates a slug area, even though its width cannot be predefined. At least I can see one in the exported document. Or perhaps the feature was added in V.2? 

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35 minutes ago, tom_tm said:

Publisher already creates a slug area, even though its width cannot be predefined. At least I can see one in the exported document. Or perhaps the feature was added in V.2? 

The feature request concerns editable content in the slug area, e.g. a custom text frame. Your various shown print marks were available since V1, while on export any user object gets hidden outside the bleed and text seems to get exported but masked by a cropping rectangle.

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1 hour ago, tom_tm said:

Hi, I'm new to this forum. This 'slug' area has been confusing me too, but as far as I can tell, and correct me if I'm mistaken, but Publisher already creates a slug area, even though its width cannot be predefined. At least I can see one in the exported document. Or perhaps the feature was added in V.2? 

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The attached opera ad includes a slug at the bottom. Created in InDesign. When inserting the PDF in an Indesign publication, options allow only showing the art, or the bleed, or the whole PDF including the slug. I use slugs to identify the art, and occasionally to include specific art instructions.

Bob K

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19 minutes ago, PilotBob said:

When inserting the PDF in an Indesign publication, options allow only showing the art, or the bleed, or the whole PDF including the slug.

Same display options exist if you place your PDF in Affinity, see the "Page box" menu. – This is regardless of the missing ability to get custom objects in the slug area exported unmasked in Affinity.

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