PRINT-READY BOOK FORMATTING

FormatBookForPrint.com

Your Automated Layout and Formatting Studio

to format Your physical Book for print-on-demand

Turn raw Word manuscripts or Canva layouts into professional, high-resolution PDFs built strictly to spec for Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, and independent paper book publishers.

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Style Lab:
Download For Free 10 Samples per session

In test mode you can upload a manuscript and up to 2 images, try fonts and trim sizes, and download 10 five-page samples (watermarked). When you choose “Complete book” you can upload as many illustrations as you need. The preview stays watermarked. Each full PDF, with no watermark, downloads after a $19 USD payment.

Choose Your Layout Path

Each Path is a specific layout workshop.
Explore every way to lay out Your Book and get it print-ready:

PATH A | Word Manuscript (.docx)

Your Book in Word format (.docx)

Automated book formatting engine. The app "translates" the Word document markdown into design. Chapters start on right-hand pages automatically, complete with headers and footers, page numbers, and custom spine gutters scaled to your paper type, total length, and art placement.

PATH B | Optimize your PDF made in Canva /
other design tools

Adjust Your PDF Design for Print

Keep your artistic title pages and custom layouts untouched. We re-frame your entire file with exact print bleed and gutter margins, enhancing the print output of your full-page artwork.

Optimize PDF for Print

PATH C | ART ALBUMS AND CATALOGUES

Art Books & Large Size Visuals

Albums, magazines, illustrated stories, portfolios, and coffee table books. Choose portrait, landscape, or square, one of 16 placements per page, numbered photos, and a Word file; the factory builds the print PDF. Covers are Path D.

Open the Art-Book Studio

Path D | Cover / Book Cover

Print-ready cover design

Create a quick cover here for Your Book or Art Album (colors, fonts, logo, images, and ISBN) on the exact template from your book’s print parameters (size, paper type, page count, spine, and so on), or download the pattern and finish it in Canva or another design program. The template and the RGB color PDF you can download for free. The PDF with CMYK color conversion (US and Europe) you can generate and download with a $19 USD payment.

Open the Book-Cover Studio

After you pay, this page stays open. Click RGB or the CMYK code your printer asked for, wait until it finishes, then the next. Do not close or reload until you have the files you need: leaving erases the layout and this payment will not let you download again.

After you pay you can download the interior in RGB (Amazon KDP) and every CMYK of this layout (GRACoL, FOGRA, SWOP, Japan Color). Each button delivers that color system: type in 100% K black and photos converted with the profile. Closing the tab deletes the file.

RGB is screen color (red, green, and blue). Amazon KDP and many digital print-on-demand presses want the PDF in RGB: the same kind of color you see on a monitor. Bright greens and blues will not match paper 100%, but this is the file KDP and several independent printers accept for the interior.

The three most requested

Coated / couché stock, gloss or matte (laminated hardcover/paperback, magazine). Usual IngramSpark US request. Do not use on cream/ivory or uncoated offset.

European coated / couché stock (ISO 12647-2). Common for IngramSpark Europe and EU offset. Do not use on uncoated offset or novel cream.

Newer European coated / couché (2013). Use if the printer names PSO Coated v3. Covers and magazines on gloss or matte coated paper.

Other specifications (same session, already included in the payment)

United States

Older US coated / couché (pre-2013). Some legacy offset shops still ask for it. Same paper type as GRACoL2013 (coated).

US web press (web magazines, not typical casewrap). Publication coated / couché stock. Not the IngramSpark cover profile.

US uncoated offset: novel cream/ivory, matte offset, porous unlaminated cover. Do not use on a gloss-laminated casewrap (that needs coated/couché).

Uncoated US web (offset, not couché). Uncommon for book covers. Confirm with the printer.

Europe

European uncoated offset (white or natural/ivory). Novels, essays, unlaminated paperback. Not for coated/couché or laminated covers.

Newer European uncoated (offset or cream/ivory). If the printer says PSO Uncoated v3, this one.

Yellowish / cream European offset (uncoated ivory). Typical novel natural stock. Not for bright white coated/couché.

Japan

Japan coated / couché (covers and magazines). Not GRACoL or FOGRA: different inks and paper. Only if the printer is in Japan or names it.

Japan uncoated (offset or cream/ivory). Do not send to IngramSpark US or Europe.

Amazon KDP often wants RGB. If your printer wants CMYK, download the exact code on their spec sheet (and the variants below if they ask). Click one, wait, then the next.

Your Content and Copyright Stays 100% Secure

Files are processed exclusively in a secure temporary buffer while our engine formats your book. We never save or store your data: the moment your PDF is compiled or you close the browser tab, all original source files are permanently and irreversibly deleted.