
If you choose to publish your book through a self-publisher or through Amazon's Kindle-direct program, for example, they will have their own tools for helping you make your cover.When it comes to digital publishing, Adobe InDesign reigns supreme as the go-to program for producing the very best quality creatives. If you're using a Mac, then your Apple Books application might pop up to show you what your book looks like! For your coverīecause this is a beginner's guide that is already quite long, I don't want to go into making a cover here. Save it as something like "Frankenstein-Digital-Print.".Go back to the book project window and click the four horizontal lines again.You'll likely want a version of your new book as an EPUB too. Save it as something like "Frankenstein_Print."Īn EPUB file is like a digitally published version of your book that can be read online in things like Kindle or Apple Books.Click on the little button that looks like four horizontal lines near the top-right of the book project window.Make sure you don't have just one section of your book project selected.We're getting close! Your book is all ready to get exported as a printable copy for a printer. Use the slider to set the priority from having Better Spacing in the text, to having Fewer Hyphens overall.Deselect "Hyphenate" if you don't want to use them.We can make it so that does not happen or change how it happens. You'll notice that when you inserted the text into InDesign it likely automatically hyphenated the text when it reached the end of the line. The only thing you'll likely need to set here is the First Line Indent. (Please don't use Comic Sans!) Note that "Leading" is the space between the lines (18 is usually good). Here is where you'll change general things like the font and font size.

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Unless, of course, you're laying out a magazine or newspaper that uses multiple columns on a single page. (This will ensure that we can control the text flow from page to page using our master pages.) Make sure Primary Text Frame is checked.This is a standard sheet of paper, folded in half. A good standard setting is a height of 8.5 inches and a width of 5.5 inches. Think about the ideal height and width of your book. This is the size you want your book to be. Now you can begin to set up the layout for the pages of your book.
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