Page Setup Confusion

[AlanPC]

Hi, first, I'm stocked to discover the beta release! Woot!

OK, so I tried editing some of my existing docs, see how it would go. Tried a PDF, seemed to be fantastic - but upon exporting it was a little thing in the corner of a huge, wide and rectangular document?

With Pageplus I'd go to 'Publication Setup' and could easily choose paper size and orientation, landscape or portrait.

With Affinity I'm looking at 'document setup'... I can see some options and I pretty much understand what they are, but none of them cover such basics as the paper size and orientation?

Further, when I open an existing PDF I can see it as the correct shape in the page manager, but on the main working screen it is much more square-looking?

I'm guessing this is more a change in the way of doing things (ow) rather than a bug, but I'm completely lost here?

TL;DR; How so I set up a doc to be A4, portrait? 

Thanks!

 

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[AlanPC]

OK have been searching some more... I see for the Affinity Photo people had or have a similar issue and one can adjust things in "spread"?

With the NEW document it seems easy enough to create A4 portrait, in fact it seems to be the default. OK...

I think this is some kind of bug perhaps.. I've tried 3 different documents now: If I open a PDF it looks normal enough, if I then open a blank A4 document that looks normal enough, but if I copy and paste anything from the open PDF to the new blank page it does paste but it's TINY?

 

See?

Every doc I try does the same thing.

(as an aside, what I'm hoping to do is to export my Pageplus files into PDF, then edit/update via AP, but as you can see that's currently not practical. If it's necessary to re-size and re-arrange everything, plus importing fonts etc, it would be easier to recreate the document from scratch, which i'm really trying to avoid if possible

 

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[Chris_K]

Hi AlanPC

Document setup affects attributes that are document wide such as the colour profile used, bleed and if it is a facing page document of not. as the document can contain different spread sizes within it, you can adjust the size of each spread in the spread setup dialog.

If you open you exported PDF in another reader that is not Affinity does it report it at the correct size? There is a known issue with PDFs being placed into Publisher documents appearing smaller than they should be with this build so I think this is what you are running into. The developers are aware of this though

Thanks

[AlanPC]

Hi Chris. Upon exporting you can immediately see just by the document's thumbnail that something is wrong, as it turns into a mostly white thumbnail with a little image in the corner, so no, it's not the right size.

They're not just appearing smaller, it's registering them as smaller. If I import a PDF that, when printing it in Foxit, shows as an 8x11 inch A4 document, Affinity is showing that same file as 1.5 by 2 inches! And it seems that is what get exported, a little 2 inch image in the corner of an A4 sized doc.

I'm glad it is actually a known bug, rather than a learning-curve issue   

I would still prefer to see a simple pull-down menu of A3, A4, A5 etc, for the whole doc' after creating a document, rather than typing the length and width of each page or 'spread' individually. For example my wife will often just change some multi-page A4 docs into A5 size for quickly printing some black and white handouts for discussion. I don't see how that would be possible with this menu, without laboriously typing lots of numbers?

Cheers,

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