Margins calculator this powerful tool will allow you to get the top outer bottom and inner margins for the five most common canons of page construction by simply entering your page size.
Book gutter size calculator.
The gutter and downspout size required is highly dependent on the amount of gutter and the spacing of the downspouts.
Also see our calculator for book weight.
Adding additional downspouts will require less gutter and downspout volume resulting in smaller gutters downspouts.
Books with more pages need a wider space for the binding.
The gutter is the space at the interior of the book or bound set of pages.
Please lower the maximum spacing between downspouts to see this effect.
There is a calculation for this based on the number of pages in the book or manuscript.
By 6 9 and 12.
The five canons are the fine print the regular print and 3 based of a geometrical division of the page.
The downspout and gutter sizing calculator is located on the tools cad and apps page of the smacna website.
How do you calculate the gutter size for a create space print book.
In a book of this size i would usually recommend minimum 75 margins and a little more on the gutter binding side.