BookbndrA LITTLE GUIDANCE
From manuscript
to finished book.
Keep your original document. Open it in Bookbndr, choose your design, then preview both editions.
Website essentials
Try every formatting setting before purchasing. Sign in with an emailed code to synchronize settings. Your $199 lifetime license unlocks EPUB and print-file exports on the homepage and in Studio.
On another device, reopen the manuscript and reattach images. Local prose does not sync. For print, download the generated HTML, open it in your browser, and use its print instructions to save a PDF.
Getting started
Set up your book
Organize chapters & parts
Front & back matter
Design your book
- Choose a theme, and save your own
- Preview your book on different devices
- Choose body fonts, size and spacing
- Style your chapter openers
- Add a drop cap or decorative first letter
- Add scene breaks and ornaments
- Style your headings
- Set page size (trim size) and margins for print
- Add running heads and page numbers
- Control widows, orphans and page breaks
- Style block quotes, verse, sidebars and special passages
- Place footnotes and endnotes
- Style figure captions
- Format the index
Export
Reuse your settings
Understand the concepts
- What is an EPUB?
- What is front matter & back matter?
- Chapters, parts & sections
- What is a theme — and how is it different from a project?
- What is trim size?
- Margins, the gutter, recto & verso
- What is a drop cap?
- What is a scene break?
- Running heads & page numbers
- What are widows & orphans?
- Footnotes vs endnotes
- What is a copyright page, and what goes on it?
- What is an index, and how does Bookbndr build one?
- What is smart punctuation?