chelcod Posted February 1, 2019 Posted February 1, 2019 Hello! I am having issues with Affinity Designer not exporting the crop marks properly on a booklet I'm trying to send to print. The bleeds are not working properly. Each finished page is 7" x 10" and I am trying to export bleeds and crop marks at .125" around each edge. I tried transforming each page to 7.25 x 10.25 thinking maybe I had to take account of the bleeds in the page size, but that didn't seem to work either. I made sure to 'include bleeds' when exporting. I am on a tight timeline to send to print and I am unable to fix this myself. Is anyone able to help? Quote
Patrick C Posted February 1, 2019 Posted February 1, 2019 You should set the artboard to be the size of your page. Bleeds are set in document settings. Quote Illustrator, Designer, 3D Modeller (In that order) - Open for commissions - Check out my art Instagram or follow me on twitter or like my Facebook page. Phew!
chelcod Posted February 1, 2019 Author Posted February 1, 2019 Yes, I have tried that as well but it only worked properly on a few of the pages after export. Would the fact that some of the backgrounds are images or shapes? I'm inserting the pdf. here. LITH brochure Final Copy.pdf Quote
chelcod Posted February 1, 2019 Author Posted February 1, 2019 57 minutes ago, Patrick C said: You should set the artboard to be the size of your page. Bleeds are set in document settings. I realize this, it still doesn't work. Quote
Patrick C Posted February 1, 2019 Posted February 1, 2019 Just now, chelcod said: I realize this, it still doesn't work. Do you have "include printer marks" checked in the export? Quote Illustrator, Designer, 3D Modeller (In that order) - Open for commissions - Check out my art Instagram or follow me on twitter or like my Facebook page. Phew!
chelcod Posted February 1, 2019 Author Posted February 1, 2019 Just now, Patrick C said: Do you have "include printer marks" checked in the export? Yes. My document is 16 pages. Some have the proper bleeds and crop marks and some do not. Quote
Patrick C Posted February 1, 2019 Posted February 1, 2019 As far as I can tell in your uploaded PDF there are no bleeds or crop marks included at all. I'm not sure what pages you are referring to when you say that some have proper bleeds and crop marks. If you are sure that your Bleeds are set up in Document Settings and that Include Bleed and Include Printer Marks are checked in your export settings, then there should be no reason why your PDF should not include these marks. Quote Illustrator, Designer, 3D Modeller (In that order) - Open for commissions - Check out my art Instagram or follow me on twitter or like my Facebook page. Phew!
chelcod Posted February 1, 2019 Author Posted February 1, 2019 13 minutes ago, Patrick C said: As far as I can tell in your uploaded PDF there are no bleeds or crop marks included at all. I'm not sure what pages you are referring to when you say that some have proper bleeds and crop marks. If you are sure that your Bleeds are set up in Document Settings and that Include Bleed and Include Printer Marks are checked in your export settings, then there should be no reason why your PDF should not include these marks. I exported it again making sure the bleeds and crop marks were included. I also deselected "downsample images" because it wasn't on the window you posted. Some of the pages are cropped properly but some of them crop the right side but not the left (area circled in red). I'm reattaching the entire pdf file as well. LITH_brochure_Version_Final_01.31.pdf Quote
MikeW Posted February 1, 2019 Posted February 1, 2019 It would be best with the file. If you do not want it public, feel free to upload a file to dropbox or the like and send a private message with a download link. Mike Quote
chelcod Posted February 1, 2019 Author Posted February 1, 2019 7 minutes ago, MikeW said: It would be best with the file. If you do not want it public, feel free to upload a file to dropbox or the like and send a private message with a download link. Mike I uploaded the entire file above. Thank you! Quote
MikeW Posted February 1, 2019 Posted February 1, 2019 All I see are PDFs. I meant the design file. Quote
chelcod Posted February 1, 2019 Author Posted February 1, 2019 1 hour ago, MikeW said: All I see are PDFs. I meant the design file. Ooops. I sent you a link to my dropbox in a private message. Thank you! Quote
Staff Gabe Posted February 2, 2019 Staff Posted February 2, 2019 Hi all, Did you "stretch/extend" the image past the bleed marks? If you did not, it will not automatically push it into the bleed. Can you attach it here? https://www.dropbox.com/request/JYvLKBOblY0MCQKpSelz Thanks, Gabe. Quote
R C-R Posted February 2, 2019 Posted February 2, 2019 13 hours ago, chelcod said: Some of the pages are cropped properly but some of them crop the right side but not the left (area circled in red). I have not downloaded anything so this is just a guess, but is it possible that in the pages like the one in your screenshot, the items on the left don't extend all the way to the left edge of the page (which I assume to be an artboard) & so there is a white strip from the background or whatever that is the width of the left bleed filling that area? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
eflatz Posted August 31, 2019 Posted August 31, 2019 I just went through a similar issue. For some reason part of the layer that was going outside of the artboard area into the bleed area did not show on the exported pdf. I had to create new document, copy / paste all layers and then export worked as expected. Cheers, e. Quote
Staff Gabe Posted September 2, 2019 Staff Posted September 2, 2019 Hi @eflatz, Can you attach that project file (if you still have it) so we can have a look? Thanks, Gabe. Quote
Staff Gabe Posted December 5, 2019 Staff Posted December 5, 2019 @ianstudio, So that we are able to investigate bugs thoroughly could you please follow this link and update this post with the followings: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/71-bug-reporting/ Quote
stevenbauwens Posted May 27, 2020 Posted May 27, 2020 Same issue! Really frustrating as there is a deadline and I wasn't expecting delay because of a bleed not showing up! File is: 36" x 72" and Bleed is set to 0.5", export bleed is checked in the export options. I tried to create a new file and copied the content in there and still the same situation. And yes, the background does extend to where the bleed is. Before I had this issue while trying to export from export persona. Now it's not working through the standard export option and export persona. Tourism_Panel.afdesign Quote
chelcod Posted May 27, 2020 Author Posted May 27, 2020 41 minutes ago, stevenbauwens said: Same issue! Really frustrating as there is a deadline and I wasn't expecting delay because of a bleed not showing up! File is: 36" x 72" and Bleed is set to 0.5", export bleed is checked in the export options. I tried to create a new file and copied the content in there and still the same situation. And yes, the background does extend to where the bleed is. Before I had this issue while trying to export from export persona. Now it's not working through the standard export option and export persona. Tourism_Panel.afdesign 733.26 MB · 0 downloads I'm just downloading the file to have a look. When I opened your document there were no bleeds set in the document setup. Quote
chelcod Posted May 28, 2020 Author Posted May 28, 2020 I opened this file up in Affinity Publisher and was able to set up the bleeds (.25). I'm thinking there's a 'glitch' in Affinity Designer. Also a couple of the photos and the bottom 'white' rectangle didn't extend out past the bleed, so I pulled it out. Will this work for you? Tourism_Panel_with_bleed.pdf Quote
Staff Gabe Posted May 28, 2020 Staff Posted May 28, 2020 Hi both, We are aware of an issue where Bleed fails to export if you have Adjustment Layers placed inside artboards. However, the main issue with your document is that you don't have any bleed set up. Second, and more related to the document setup and not the actual bleed, why is your document so large? is it nearly 1m x 2m(11100px x 21600px) at 300 DPI... Quote
stevenbauwens Posted June 1, 2020 Posted June 1, 2020 Hi @chelcod and @Gabe, I guess that's where's a glitch. As I've mentioned, I did set a bleed, see screenshot, where you visually can see the bleed in the document and the bleed settings. I don't know why it shows up otherwise when you download the file. Another issue I came across is, as you can see on Chelcod's export. There's some weirdness going on. The clearest place is the top right corner, at the word "Merritt". Somehow Designer cuts the background in 2 different files with a different level of brightness. The only way I discovered to fix both issues, I think, was to flatten the entire document. Luckily the printers didn't require layers, but some do. @Gabe The reason why it's so large is because it's for a big street panel. Are there maybe size restrictions for Publisher I need to be aware of? @chelcod Thanks for exporting that!I appreciate the effort. But as mentioned, it still has this weird brightness issue as mentioned. At least now I now that wasn't specific to my software. Quote
Staff Gabe Posted June 2, 2020 Staff Posted June 2, 2020 13 hours ago, stevenbauwens said: The reason why it's so large is because it's for a big street panel. Are there maybe size restrictions for Publisher I need to be aware of? Not really. The size limit is 256000 x 256000 px. Most of the times we see such large documents at large DPI is because "bigger is better", not because one actually needs that point density. Quote
stevenbauwens Posted June 8, 2020 Posted June 8, 2020 @Gabe Exactly, I didn't receive a proper response from the printshop as at what DPI they would print that, so 300 it is! I was just wondering how the size comment was related to my issue. Quote
Bryce Posted June 17, 2020 Posted June 17, 2020 I have a file that I cannot get to export bleeds for anything. I use Affinity day in and day out with bleeds all the time. This one will not work for anything even when copying and pasting to a new file. Am I missing something super obvious? WCCH_Smith_Heine_Invite_6.20.afdesign test.pdf Quote
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