About pages and spreads

The terms page and spread are fairly interchangeable in Affinity Publisher. If you're working with single pages rather than facing pages, the terms are interchangeable. However, for facing pages, the term spread becomes more significant.

Pages and spreads

Single pages: (A) landscape page, (B) portrait page.
Facing pages: (C) portrait pages in a horizontal spread, (D) portrait pages in a vertical spread, (E) landscape pages in a horizontal spread, (F) landscape pages in a vertical spread.

Pages and spreads

At document setup, you can create pages and spreads for your document. Pages can be presented as single or facing pages, and can use a portrait or landscape orientation.

The Facing pages option allows you to arrange your publication in the form of spreads. By using spreads, instead of working on single pages, you'll be working with left (verso) and right (recto) page pairings displayed at the same time, e.g., a gatefold center spread of a magazine. Spreads can be arranged vertically or horizontally.

To use spreads in your publication:
  1. From the Document menu, select Document Setup.
  2. Ensure the Facing pages option is enabled to work with spreads.
To alter the orientation of pages:
  1. From the New Document dialog, above the list of presets, choose Portrait or Landscape orientation.
More To edit spread properties:
  1. On the Pages panel, tap More.
  2. On the dialog that appears, select Whole Document, Selected Masters or Selected Spreads
  3. (Optional) For selected masters/spreads, tap the thumbnails of the pages whose properties you wish to edit.
  4. On the right, modify the dimensions, orientation, or margins as needed.
  5. Tap OK.
To alter the arrangement of pages in spreads:
  1. From the Document menu, select Document Setup.
  2. On the right side of the dialog that appears, use the Arrange option to specify whether each spreads' pages should be arranged horizontally or vertically.

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