How to format a book for eBook and print in PubliWrite
In PubliWrite you format your whole book by picking one of twenty designs, and the same design covers your eBook and your print edition. This guide shows how to choose a design, change the font and spacing, style your chapter openings and preview both editions.
Steps
- In Creator Studio, open Settings, then Formatting.
- Filter the twenty designs by genre and click one to see your own opening chapter in it.
- Click Customise to change the body font, size and line spacing.
- Style chapter openings with a drop cap, small-caps lead-in and an ornament.
- Set running heads, save, then preview the eBook and the paperback.
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One manuscript, any number of looks. Here's how to choose yours. In Creator Studio, open Settings. Formatting is the first tab. There are twenty designs, each made for a kind of book. Filter by genre, like Thriller and Mystery, to narrow them down. Click a design, and the sample on the right sets your own opening chapter in that style, straight away. Switch the sample between print and eBook. The same design covers both editions. To fine-tune a design, click Customise, and every setting opens. Choose any body font from the full Google Fonts list. Search for one, like EB Garamond, and pick it. Then nudge the body size and line spacing up a step. The sample updates as you go. Paragraphs can be spaced, the way non-fiction is set, or indented, the way most novels are. Next, chapter openings. Centre the chapter title, and choose how far it drops down the opening page. Switch on a drop cap and a small-caps lead-in, for the classic first line of a printed novel. Pick an ornament to print under each chapter title. Try a few, or upload your own as an SVG line drawing. For print, set the running heads: your name on the left, and here, the book title on the right. Then save your formatting. Your manuscript in Creator Studio picks up the new font too. Now click the eye icon on the left to preview your book. Under Format, choose eBook, then Open preview. Page through it the way a reader would, from the contents to your opening chapter. For print, go back to Options. Choose Paperback, pick a book size, then open the preview again. Each chapter opens with your drop cap and ornament. Turn the page, and your name and the book title run across the top. Next in the series: designing your eBook cover. Click the video on screen to watch it.
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